Wednesday, February 20, 2013

OS SIXTY TWO--STAGE BITZ (FEB. 21-27)

HEY OUTSTAGRS!

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN!!

TIME TO GET ON STAGE!!!


BLACK HISTORY MONTH BITZ



Jay Mayo "Ink" Williams (September 25, 1894 – January 2, 1980) was a pioneering African-American producer of recorded blues music. 
Williams grew up in  Monmouth, Illinois, After graduating from Brown University in 1921, he moved to Chicago. Although he continued to play football until 1926, his first love was music and in 1924 he joined Paramount Records, which had recently begun to produce and market "race" records. Williams became a talent scout and supervisor of recording sessions in the Chicago area, becoming the most successful blues producer of his time
. Two of his biggest discoveries as recording artists were singer Ma Rainey – already a popular live performer – and Papa Charlie Jackson, the first commercially successful self-accompanied blues singer. He recorded Blind Lemon Jefferson, Tampa Red, Thomas A. Dorsey, Ida Cox, Jimmy Blythe, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and Freddy Keppard. He also managed a crew of songwriters including Tiny Parham.

In 1927, he left Paramount and started The Chicago Record Company, releasing jazz, blues and gospel records on the "Black Patti" label. One of these releases was The Down Home Boys' "Original Stack O' Lee Blues", believed to be the first recorded version of the song better known as "Stagger Lee", and of which only one copy is now known to exist. Black Patti soon failed, and Williams moved to Brunswick Records and its subsidiary label Vocalion. However, after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, record sales plummeted, and Williams found new work as a football coach at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
In 1934, Williams was hired as head of the "race records" department at Decca, where he recorded such musicians as Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, and Blind Boy Fuller. He acted as manager of many of the artists he recorded, and assumed at least some of the ownership of many of their songs. 
Williams set up the Chicago Music Publishing Company (CMPC) as publisher for all the titles he recorded. 
After leaving Decca in 1945, Williams worked freelance and ran several small, independent labels. From 1945 through 1949, he ran the Harlem label (based in New York City), and the Chicago, Southern, and Ebony label (based in Chicago); one of the artists he recorded was the young Muddy Waters. After a period of freelance producing, he reopened the Ebony label in 1952 and kept it going through the early 1970s.
Williams was a member of the National Football Hall of Fame Association. In 2004, he was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

Info by Wikipedia



MAAT BITZ

THE 2013 OBSDN MEN OF COLOR CALENDAR IS OUT! TO PURCHASE YOUR COPY EMAIL SNAPHONEY2011@GMAIL.COM FOR MORE INFO!


BELOW ARE THE FEATURED CALENDAR MODELS (NOTE: PICS ARE PROMOTIONAL ONLY AND NOT PART OF THE ACTUAL CALENDAR)


    BRANDON INGRAM (MR JANUARY)


      KOURI FLYE (MR FEBRUARY)



BRANDEN CARTWRIGHT (MR MARCH)

SESAMIR YEARBY (MR APRIL)



PJ MOTON (MR MAY)




   ADAM FLOWERS (MR JUNE)


JOHN NEEDEM II (MR JULY)


ABRAM PRUITT, JR (MR AUGUST)
RA'DRIC (MR SEPTEMBER)


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JARRED MOORE (MR OCTOBER)



GQ (MR NOVEMBER)
BRANDON CHISOM (MR DECEMBER)

UPCOMING WILL BE A MEET AND GREET OF THE CALENDAR MODELS AND BOOK  (LOCATION TBA SOON!)

TO SEE THE VIDEO DOCUMENTARY OF THE MAKING OF THE CALENDAR GO TO 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMqITMzhDSg




AND

COMING IN MAY IS THE MUSICAL STAGEPLAY "LIPS UNSTUCK" CHRONICLING THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE. STAYED EYED FOR MORE DETAILS.  IF YOU WOULD LIKE AN AUDITION, SEND A HEADSHOT AND RESUME TO SNAPHONEY2011@GMAIL.COM

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 ILLI MO BITZ


According to ABC Otus News, President Obama and  Tiger Woods played golf over Presidents' Day weekend, and Woods divulged  that they teamed up to beat the other players in their foursome, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Houston Astros owner Jim Crane.
"He was my partner, and as I said, we won," Woods told reporters at a press conference after a practice round at the WGC-Accenture Matchplay Championship in Arizona.
"He hit the ball well, and he's got an amazing touch. He can certainly chip and putt," Woods said of Obama. "If he ... spends more time playing the game of golf, I'm sure he can get to where he's got pretty good stick" -- golf-aficionados' terminology for a talented game.
Asked how one gets an invitation to play with the president, Woods joked, "He calls up and says, 'Hey Tiger you wanna play?' Obviously there is a process that's involved, and I was invited to play, and it was an invitation that certainly you don't turn down, especially [since] he's an avid golfer, and so am I. So we went out there and we had just a great round of golf with Ron and Jim, and it was a good day."







The First Lady Michelle Obama did a Skype interview with "Rachel Ray" that aired Wednesday. Obamadiscussed what the president called the "most significant event" of inauguration weekend--her bangs.
The 49-year-old first lady joked that a looming mid-life crisis inspired her much-discussed fringe.
"This is my midlife crisis, the bangs," Obama explained. "I couldn't get a sports car. They won't let me bungee-jump. So instead, I cut my bangs."
FLOTUS debuted the bangs on her birthday in January, just days ahead of the inauguration, in a photo posted to her new twitter account.

Network owner Oprah Winfrey interviewed singer Beyonce just before her documentary Life Is But A Dream premiered on HBO last weekend. The singer and Oprah had a chat about why she made the documentary, how her life has changed since giving birth to Blue Ivy and what she hopes to achieve from sharing her intimate moments with fans.



Actress and Robbins, Ill. native Keke Palmer (LEFT) was cast this week in the VH1 biopic, "Crazy Sexy Cool:The TLC Story". She will portray band member Chilli (RIGHT)


"I would sing 'No Scrubs' over and over again to the point my parents would have to tell me to stop, but I never did, I had my little hairbrush as my mic and nobody could tell me I wasn't the fourth member of TLC," Palmer said in a statement announcing her casting.

Also cast were rapper Lil Mama, and actress-singer Drew Sidora who will portray Left Eye and T Boz respectively. "Crazy, Sexy, Cool: The TLC Story" will begin shooting in Atlanta in March. Charles Stone III ("Deadline") will direct. 

In related newz, many folks have criticized the producers choices of who's playing TLC. While the other ladies seem to have fallen silent, Palmer reportedly took to her Twitter to bite back at those who had something negative to say about her upcoming role.
It seemed as though most of the complaints came from people who felt as though Keke didn’t look like Chilli, so KeKe began naming off actors that have portrayed people that they had little to no similarities to in real life but ended up winning awards for their roles.
“People kill me, I don’t remember Angela Bassett looking ANYTHING like Tina Turner. And she RIPPED that role, ✌ People need to realize that movies aren’t casted by people looking like who they’re playing. They’re casted by who can do the role.







Alumni of U City and Mercy High Schools appeared on Family Feud this week. (Pic courtesy of Tammie's Insider http://t.co/0ZM8y0bB via @1003KMJM)




STL BITZ



Former St Louis Cardinals Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee (PICTURED) arrived in training camp in Jupiter , Fla. this week as guest instructors for The Cards as they gear toward their upcoming season. tMcGee and Smith are joined by Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and fomer Cardinals outfielder Jim Edmonds and. Hall of Famers Lou Brock, Bruce Sutter and Whitey Herzog.
 
(PIC courtesy of WCF Courier)


St Louis based fashion designer Ola is set to travel to Hollywood to style the female hosts of Hollywood Access with designs from her Ola Style dresses at the Oscars on Sunday.



This week we feature two movers in shakers in the St Louis area. The first is event producer Lorena Riley (LEFT) who is sporting a funky chic black and white dress with a lingerie styled bra top with black jacket and black knee boots. Riley is producer of the ladies only discussion events Meeting In the Ladies Room.The other is St. Louis Board of Alderman and 2013 mayoral candidate Lewis Reed who is sporting a spiffy black suit with a crisp white shirt and purple tie with blue squares. 

BLIND DISH
Which STL event promoter renigged on working with a club venue on promoting the venue hen they opened in 2010?

This promoter is a male, who oversees a monthly  zine and last name is the same as an actor who died last year and had a sitcom that had a very popular theme song that used only whistles and fingersnaps. The venue is located in the"center" of the STL whos name starts with an F.

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 Why didnt the director have a full shot of Beyonce while pregenant in her documentary to squash the rumors that she had a surrogate for Blu Ivy? Why did Jessie Jackson Jr claiming he used campaign funds for his livlihood? And why does his mental sickness seem like a ploy of his now  forseen jail time for using campaign funds?  And why did his wife fake her income taxes? Why has the  murder of the girlfirend of Oscar Peltrais charge seem to change to an accident? Why did a fan in London throw a can at Rihanna? And Why did music mogul Cilive Davis wait until know to come out as bisexual? 






A ST. LOUIS PREMIERE PLAY PRESENTED BY THE BLACK REP
The Mountaintop
JUST BACK FROM BROADWAY, THE MOUNTAINTOP IS A SURREAL, FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S LAST NIGHT ON EARTH
BY KATORI HALL
THRU– MARCH 9TH THE MOUNTAINTOP CONTINUES THE BLACK REP’S 36THSEASON, NEW TICKET SPECIALS AVAILABLE!      
WHO/WHAT: THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall
WHEN: Feb. 13th-March 9th; Thursdays at 7 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. Saturday Matinee March 9th at 2pm.
WHERE: Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square, 63108
TICKETS: $20-$47, special student matinee, group prices, http://theblackrep.org





New African Paradigm Study Group Lecture Series Presents...

2 Mega Lectures

Michael Imhotep & Dr. Llaila O. Afrika 



Meet and Greet 4:30pm -6:00pm @ Afroworld( 7276 Natural Bridge Road Saint Louis Missouri 63121)


For Advanced Tickets Call James Steward at 618-977-8191 or call Greg Harris at 314-877-9252

Lectures will takes Place at
Pamoja Preparatory Academy (Cole Middle School)
3935 Enright Ave St.Louis, Mo. 63108

Doors open at 1:30pm
Program starts at 2:00pm

VENDORS
$40 for advanced vendors
$50 for at the door vendors
AT DOOR VENDORS MUST BRING TABLE

For more info on vendors call
Brother James Matthews at 618-977-8191 or call e-mail Greg Harris at Newafricanparadigm@gmail.com





Rucka Puffs Sixth Annual Charity B Ball Game Sunday Feb 24 at St Vincents Gym St Charles Rock Rock Road




ONGOING BITZ



LooseCannon presents BIKINI BOXING every Wednesday at The City, 1917 Washington in Midtown St Louis.  Doors at 10p.m. For free RSVP call 314-4-9917



Check out the web series UNDER THE CHERRY TREEproduced by Kobalt Books. Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/kobaltbooks





 


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Check out Paris Caldwell's weekly podcast GOIN BACK TO INDIANA playing all Jacksons music every Thursday at TEN PM CST at http://www.mixlr.com/mytalknation


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