I first started reading Vibe sometime in middle school when the pages were extra big and it was hard to hold the magazine up without my arms hurting because it was so damn thick and heavy. When Angela and I met over four years ago we bonded over the fact that we both wanted to write for Vibe magazine someday.  So when she texted me this morning to tell me that Read More

    Late last night CBS showed a picture of a teenage Michael Jackson that nearly brought me to tears. He was sitting in what looked like an auditorium staring at God knows what with this sullen, distant, look on his face. By then he was already a teen sensation, no where near the icon he became in the 80s, but he looked incredibly sad. It was that photo that made me come to terms with his death. By now this has become a cliche,… Read More

  Kiana and I are in shock. Not trying to be melodramatic here, it's true. Michael Jackson is dead, just like that, and I honeslty didn't think I would be this upset about it. But I am. He was as much a part of my (and millions of other people's) childhoods as a complete stranger could possibly be. He was a genius and it's impossible to imagine what the past 20 years of music would've sounded like without his influence.… Read More

  The reason I love NBA All-Star weekend so much is because it sends my wildest NBA fantasies into overdrive. And, if we learned anything from the Shallow Girl's Guide, the best players are hot. So All-Star weekend is like a conglomerate of some of the finest athletes on the planet, decked out in their best fits, looking all lush and delicious, and playing great basketball.   With… Read More

Gah. This video makes me homesick. Pacific Division's "Mayor" has been on the "most played" (played in a good way, lol) list in my itunes for a while now, but this video damn near brought a tear to my temporary Atlantan, bout to be Iowan eyes.  The Forum, the Roscoes t-shirt, the beach, the palm trees, even the random shooting noise that causes everybody to duck down for a second, it truly captures the essence of LA. The real LA, not the one that out-of-towners paint as superficial and label-obsessed. Most of the superficial "hollywood-types" aren't from LA at all; they're from the East Coast, the Midwest, the South and wherever else you're… Read More