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ABOVE is a four minute video teaser of the opening number  from last month's MISTA COUTURE CHARITY STYLE CONTEST. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNBCIKpKMFw

Here is another teaser from the Mista Couture Show. It is of Mr Couture winner Chicagoan Orlondo Thompson in Crazy Costume Wear, one of the highlights from the show!

To order a DVD or vid link of this years MISTA COUTURE show email snaphoney2011@gmail.com

The 2014 OBSDN MEN OF COLOR  CALENDAR is scheduled for a DECEMBER 2013 release.  Pictured above is the front cover...To pre-order your copy, email to snaphoney2011@gmail.com

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Chicago reared rap superstar Kanye West made news yet 

again with his volatile behavior.

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The  rapper launched a Twitter tirade with late-night 

host Jimmy Kimmel on Sept. 26, after Kimmel poked fun of

his recent BBC Radio interview on "Live!" with a kid-Kanye 

spoof interview.

"Jimmy Kimmel is out of line to try and spoof in any way 

the first piece of honest media in years," West began, 

initially keeping his ire about the interview. But soon the 

rapper's rant took a turn for the personal — and then the

 questionable.

"I don't take it as a joke ... You don't have scum bags 

hopping over fences trying to take pictures of your 

daughter," West wrote.

By the time he was done, West had insulted Kimmel's 

appearance, his sex life, and his relationship with 

comedian   Sarah Silverman and spoof 

bromance with actor Ben Affleck.

Ye  even compared Kimmel to Spongebob Squarepants.

But, by last Sunday West's Twitter page showed no sign 

of any caps-lock conflict.

Kimmel addressed the pseudo feud on his show the next 

night, joking that he's "finally in a rap feud."

He revealed that in a personal phone call from West, the 

rapper ludicrously threatened him saying "I am the most 

powerful voice in media."

"He said 'you will never be able to show your face at a 14

-year-old's high school football game and be cool again,'" 

Kimmel said.

Chicago native and award-winning singer/actress Jennifer Hudson made news for her video spoofing the TV show  promoting the Affordable Care Act that went viral

“I teamed up with Funny or Die in their effort to raise awareness about the health-care bill,” Hudson explained of how the viral video came to be. “And who wouldn’t want the opportunity to be Olivia Pope? I’m so obsessed with her, I think I am her. I’m a gladiator. I’m Olivia.”

So she’s a problem-solver? “Yes, I am!” the Oscar winner told VF Daily. “Oh my god, don’t you notice I’m solving everyone’s problems? And I’m like, Oh my god, I’m Olivia Pope!”

She hasn’t yet heard from Kerry Washington, but Hudson says she hopes she likes the video. 

In unrelated J Jud newz, she can be seen in the role as a 

drug addict in Mister and Pete. Produced by singer Alicia

 Keys and directed by George Tillman, the Sundance 

acclaimed movie is about two boys who spend a summer

 in Brooklyn on their own while their mothers are in prison.

 The film opens this weekend.

 

St. Louis is the setting for the new Showtime series “Masters of Sex” that premiered last Sunday and raked in a solid 1 million viewers. The series  is based off of Thomas Maire’s biography on St Louis natives Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, Michael Sheen stars as William Masters, a gynecologist who desires to understand how the body works during sex. Masters, however, finds a key component for his research when he meets and hires a woman named Virginia (Lizzy Caplan), a former singer with no background per se in any scientific field, but she’s an individual immensely in tune with her sexuality.

The series picks up their story in 1956, when they first meet at Washington University in St. Louis.

The series although set in St Louis was not shot in the city.

St Louis reared rap superstar Nelly released his seventh studio album, M.O. (as in Missouri ) this past Monday and according to Billboard Magazine it will sell about 15,000 in its first week as compared to his last effort 2010’s “5.0,” which debuted with 63,000 copies sold its first week (and debuted at No. 10 on the Hot 100). To promote it, Nelly has gone on a promo tour starting on The Tom Joyner Morning Show (Nelly BTW will be one of the celeb performers who will be apart of Tom Joyners Fantastic Voyage Cruise next Spring)  and performing on :Wendy," " 106 and Park" and "Today Show."

(AP) — A University of Missouri graduate whose dance video announcing she was quitting her job was offered another employment opportunity during a taped appearance on a daytime TV talk show.

On her talk show Thursday, Queen Latifah offered a digital content producer position to Marina Shifrin, a suburban Chicago native who worked for the Taiwanese company Next Media Animation before quitting in a dance video that went viral after being posted to YouTube.

At first Shifrin thought Latifah was joking, but the host responded that she's the boss, and bosses can hire people.

Latifah said the two would do a quick job interview backstage, but the show ended without disclosing whether Shifrin had accepted the position.

In her video — which she recorded on company time before walking out — Shifrin danced to Kanye West's "Gone" in a 1 minute, 45 second production. She explained in captions on the video that she had spent two years sacrificing "my relationships, time and energy for this job."

Next Media Animation responded this week with a video of its own using the same song.

Titled "An Interpretative Dance From NextMedia set to Kanye West's Gone," employees are shown dancing. Text along the bottom says, "We work for an awesome company that hires based on dance skills."

The video also wisell and announces that the company is hiring

The city of Cape Girardeau, Mo has been the setting of a new Hollywood film for the past two weeks. The film is “Gone Girl” based on a very popular book set in Missouri and its stars Ben Affleck, Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry has been in the city filming it.

According to reports, some of the locals spotted Affleck and other stars from the film and said "They ended up spending about $1,000 in clothes for the movie," a breathless Melissa Colyer. "Ben Affleck was very tall. He was nice, and he had aBatman T-shirt on. His stylist was also really nice, and it's probably an experience I'll never forget."

"Basically Ben Affleck was just standing around just talking," says  resident Jessica May.

"Gone Girl" is about a woman who disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary and her husband (played by Affleck) becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance.

Theres no date set as of when the film will be released.

Georgia-based Herschend Family Entertainment Corp. has acquired Harlem Globetrotters International Inc. from Shamrock Capital Advisors.

Herschend, based in Norcross, Ga., is a family-owned company that owns and operates 26 theme parks, including Silver Dollar City in Branson, Mo.

The Phoenix-based Globetrotters have provided basketball hilarity to audiences since 1926, performing 25,000 "games" around the globe. Currently, the Globetrotters display their antics in about 400 games per year.

Shamrock Capital Advisors, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, purchased the Globetrotters in 2005 and reportedly had been shopping the team in recent months. The Los Angeles Business Journal in June listed the proposed price as anywhere from $50 million to $100 million.

Former St Louis Cardinals slugger and current Angels slugger  Albert Pujols followed through on his threat of legal action against former St Louis Cardinals player and radio host Jack Clark  filing a defamation lawsuit Friday for his accusation that Pujols used performance-enhancing drugs.

According to reports in the suit, Pujols accuses Clark of disseminating "malicious, reckless and outrageous falsehoods" about him, and says Clark's accusations were "an outrageous ploy to generate attention and ratings" for Clark's new sports-radio talk show.

Clark, whose show began airing on WGNU in St. Louis early in August and was fired soon after the Pujols comment, based his accusation on conversations he said he had with Chris Mihlfeld, Pujols' former personal trainer. Mihlfeld and Clark knew each other from when Mihlfeld worked for the Dodgers in 2000. Clark was the team's hitting coach.

When on-air partner Kevin Slaten said he long believed Pujols "has been a juicer," Clark said, "I know for a fact he was. The trainer who worked with him, threw him batting practice from Kansas City, that worked him out every day, basically told me that's what he did."

Pujols contends in his lawsuit that the accusations damaged his reputation and caused him to suffer "personal humiliation, mental anguish and anxiety."

Clark aired a lengthy apology on WGNU before he was fired.

Last Thursday was booming in St Louis with the opening of the playoffs with the newly NL Central clenching St Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium  and the opening season of the St Louis Blues at Scott Trade Center. The Cardinals played the Pirates and won 9-1.

A sellout crowd roared and then settled in for an easy victory by the NL Central champions, making their third consecutive trip to the postseason. 
Cardinals broadcaster Mike Shannon threw the first pitch.

Meanwhile at Scott Trade Center, the start of the hockey game was moved back 30 minutes to allow the fans time to make the five-block trek from Busch Stadium,

The baseball game was shown on the scoreboard before the Blues game, charging up the already crazed crowd.

The Blues eventually won 9-3-3 against the Predators.

St. Louis has won four of its past five home openers.

 On Sept. 29, the 50th anniversary of Stan Musial’s last game at Busch Stadium was recognized. The St. Louis Cardinals legend ranked at or is near the top of baseball’s all-time lists in almost every batting category. He won seven National League batting titles and three MVPs. Stan the Man spent 22 seasons with the Cardinals leading them to three World Series titles. But on that September day he recorded two base hits like he did in this major league debut. His last hit in his career was hit past the Cincinnati Reds second baseman at the time, Pete Rose, who would later pass Musial and Ty Cobb’s hit records. Harry Caray’s radio call from that day as Stan settled into the box tells the story. Harry said, “Take a look, fans. Take a good, long look. Remember the swing and the stance. We won’t see his like again.”

 

St Louis native actress Phyllis Smith of "The Office," who threw out the first pitch at a game earlier this summer, is guest starring in  the Instagram based video series, The Front Office, produced by the St Louis Cardinals which has three 15-second videos up now, with more to come.

Smith, who reprises her role of Phyliss Lapin Vance of The Office  works in the Cardinals front office and must deal with a bunch of misbehaving mascots (Fredbird starts acting out because the Rally Squirrel has stolen a bit of his spotlight over the last few years). Players and executives also show up in the "Mascots-mentary," based of course on the style of The Office.

To see them, you need to have Instagram account and follow @Cardinals. To find episodes, the hashtags are #Nestflix (get it -- nest?) and #TheFrontOffice.

This week we feature STL photographer Erica Brooks who Facebooked this pic right before heading to Sister Strut Saturday, the annual cancer walk that caters to women of color in Forest Park. Brooks is sporting a close shaved do and regal jewelry that makes her look quite fashionable and ethnic savvy.

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Why did that woman think Obama was trying to get her and drive to the WhiteHouse to get him? Why is this government shutdown seem to be a smokescreen to try and derail the Affordable Care Act? Why did a man set himself on fire at the National Mall? Why is the new Galaxy Phone so full of bugs? Why isnt there a black female cast on Saturday Night Live? And why is there open letters and hip hop support for Miley Cyrus? 

Alive Magazine presents Saint Louis Fashion Week
Saint Louis Fashion Week is back with 10 days of shows featuring 36 regional and national designers, including Casanova and Laura Kathleen from Bravo’s Project Runway, Samantha Pleet from Anthropolgie and Wai Ming from Shopbop.com. Experience the 10 venues, 22 retailers, 30 fashion bloggers and 70 models from September 26 – October 6. Saint Louis Fashion Week will partner with four charities this year, donating 100% of the ticket revenue from the Saint Louis Galleria’s Thursday, September 26 and Plaza Frontenac’s Friday, September 27 Fashion Week Gives Back shows to HavenHouse and SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. And Sept 28 Project Runway All Stars at The Fox.  (Pictured St Louis native/Project Runway finalist Laura Kathleen )

For a schedule of events and ticket info go to http://www.saintlouisfashionweek.com/schedule/buy-tickets/

St. Louis Actors' Studio is presenting Topdog/Underdog, the 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner, from September 20 through October 6. Thursdays @ 8:00pm Fridays @ 8:00pm Saturdays @ 8:00pm Sundays @ 3:00pm This show is not for children. We say every curse word imaginable. I think Suzan-Lori Parks even thought up some new ones for this play. At GASLIGHT THEATER 358 N. BOYLE AVE. For ticket information: http://stlas.org/

      

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