Friday, May 1, 2015

OUT 198--SPOT BITZ (MAY 1-7)

HEY OUTSTAGRS!

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN!!

TIME TO GET ON STAGE!!!











This year this blog  will be celebrating a milestone
 this year as this blogspot will turn 10 years old!  
Its hard to believe but it has come a long way from
 small paragraphs journal entries, to a mini news 
letter to  entertainment highlighter to what it is today. 
The commemorative date is July 5.  To reminisce we
 will do  weekly RETRO BITZ of some of the highlights 
from this blogspot (SEE BELOW)






                          
HEY COUTURIANS  the semi-finalists have been chosen. To vote your choice go to 
http://outstagin.blogspot.com/2015/03/2016-mista-couture-charity-style.html
DEADLINE TO VOTE iS MARCH 31


IF YOU WANT TO DONATE TO THE MISTA COUTURE FUND  go to 





Maatology is also looking for gents of color for its 2016 OBSDN Men of Color 
Calendar. Must be comfortable in front of the camera and doing artistic nude poses.
If  interested in shooting, the shoots are ONE DAY shoots THRU  June 2015 . The shoots 
will be in St Louis, Mo.   All models will receive a share of the sales and an opp to sale it 
as well. A small stipend will be given for travel. If interested email 
snaphoney2011@gmail.com with a selfie pic showing your chest and abs. 
To see video of 2015 calendar go to  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOCifGU-lY

UPDATE: The deadline has now been extended to July 31.

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Georgia model/actor and "militarian" Jay
Redd is coming out with his own calendar.
 It will consist of style pics, undergear, and
 tasteful artistic body pics. He will shoot 
it in St Louis in June and will be out in July.
 For pre-order discounts  info email 
snaphoney2011@gmail.com or 
COMMENT BELOW IN THE COMMENT
 BOXES.






THE TOP ILLI-MO STORY THIS WEEK IS:






First Lady Michelle Obama made her fifth and final 

appearance as First Lady on  Late Show With 
David Letterman on Thursday. Letterman, who  is retiring 

as host of  the CBS late-night program on

 May 20 made light banter about his final show..
“I’m retiring in a few weeks,” Letterman began.
“No kidding,” Michelle Obama shot back.
Letterman noted she’d be stepping down as First Lady in 
the not-too-distant future, adding 
“you won’t be retiring.”
‘When I’m running for president? I heard you — I was 
watching you,” Michelle Obama said,
 in re a crack Letterman had previously made on the show.
“It’s something to consider,” Letterman said gallantly.
But she thought the two of them should “hang out together” 

once Dave leaves Late Show.
“We could do things – I would help you raise your children…
I can help you through the dark times,” the First Lady offered.
“Did you hear what the president’s wife is doing now?” 
Letterman imagined media saying  if that happened.
She would not take ‘no’ for an answer, continuing to press 
that she could help him with his child-rearing problems.
“All the problems will be for the stepfather,” Letterman 
joked, winning the round.
She got in the last word, however, in the form of a 
“musical surprise” for Letterman  –
 a performance by the Marine Corps Band.

But wouldnt it be great if the FOTUS ran for President? 
Andshe would win, too with no scandal, pun intended. 
LOL.
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Chicago is the center of the universe for football fans as the 
first pick in this year's NFL Draft began Thursday.  The Draft 
has moved to the Midwest with the promise that the event 
would be turned into an even greater spectacle.
Given the massive tent city of "Draft Town" that now occupies 
much of Grant Park, the gorgeous urban green space on the 
shores of Lake Michigan.
The actual draft is  actually take place indoors at the 
venerable Auditorium Theatre. The first of seven rounds 
took place Thursday. Rounds two and three are Friday, 
followed by four through seven on Saturday.

Critics are saying that the Draft is now turning into 
The WWF. Well in this day and age of social media gotta
get peoples attention and turning it into a spectacle is
the only way of being relevant.


As far as the ILLI MO based football prospects:









The Chicago Bears selected wide receiver Kevin White 

 (LEFT)in the seventh pick.

The St. Louis Rams suddenly have the most intriguing

 young backfield in the NFL
.
The team pulled off perhaps the biggest surprise of the 

2015 NFL Draft by taking running back 


Todd Gurley  (RIGHT) with the 10th overall pick




Mizzou grads  Markus Golden and Shane Ray are also in


the running for a spot  as the Draft continues this weekend.


Golden, as of press time has yet to be drafted but 

Ray has been drafted to  the Broncos with the No 23 pick 

 in the first round  despite reports had surfaced that Ray 

might need toe surgery and his misdemeanor charge for 


possessing marijuana.


UPDATE:The Arizona Cardinals selected pass rusher 
Markus Golden in the second round -- 58th overall -- 
of the 2015 NFL Draft.




The 42 nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were held this

 week in Burbank, Calif  and three honorees with

ILLI MO ties received awards:
















Oak Park, Illinois native Betty White received the Lifetime 

Achievement Award,.White was presented her award by 

Marie Osmond, Regis Philbin, Tom Bergeron, Charo and 

Fred Willard.

Daily Mail reports that White said when she accepted the
 award, “I have been in this business for a long time. You 
may not notice that, but when I started in…1949 I had no 
idea that I would still be around at this point, for one thing. 
But that I’d still be privileged enough to still be in this
 business, and it is such a privilege.”













Talk show host/comedian Steve Harvey won his second 

consecutive award for  the Outstanding Talk Show 

Informative for his talk 

show The Steve Harvey Show which 

is filmed in Chicago.

During the acceptance speech, Steve Harvey commented: 

"God is good, all the time. This is for my producing team - 

you don't know who they are but they make the show what it 

is. Endemol Shine, NBC and Alex Duda our executive 

producer - this is yours. You Deserve It. You work hard 

and you are the absolute best. Thank you very much."


AND 










Clinton Kelly  (FAR RIGHT) who is a Northwestern

alum won along with his colleagues for 

 for  Informative Talk show Host for "The Chew."








The Chicago White Sox played the Baltimore Orioles 

Wednesday at Camden Yards in a game that 

was closed to the public due to the Baltimore riots after

 the death of Freddie Gray,


The revised plan was announced  after widespread public 
unrest in Baltimore forced a postponement of a 
White Sox-Orioles game for the second consecutive day. 

The Orioles said they made the 
decision after consulting with Major League Baseball as 
well as city and local officials. 
Orioles, BTW,  won 8-2
We understand the MLB's decision in regards to 
the public's safety, but we dont think the crowd
that were protesting would be going to a baseball
game in the first place. We are just saying. Now
if the Orioles win the World Series and riots happen
then to celebrate, then what.















The Chicago Blackhawks is set to for Round 2 

of  the  Playoffs against The Wild. It will start 

Friday,  May 1 at The United Center in Chicago, 

Below is the  schedule of the  Playoffs 



Fri, May 1
UPDATE: Blackhawks won -4-3
Wild
@
Blackhawks
8:30 PM
Sun, May 3
Wild
@
Blackhawks
7:30 PM
Tue, May 5
Blackhawks
@
Wild
7:00 PM
Thu, May 7
Blackhawks
@
Wild
8:30 PM
Sat, May 9
Wild
@
Blackhawks
TBD
Mon, May 11
Blackhawks
@
Wild
TBD
Wed, May 
13

ild
@
Blackhawks
TBD




Surgery to repair  St Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright's left Achilles tendon went 
according to plan Thursday morning in St. Louis.
Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said Dr. George Paletta 
performed the surgery with a team trainer on hand, leaving little else 
to do but sit back and wait. The right-hander will rest and recover for 
six to eight weeks before he can begin a rehabilitation program aimed at getting 
him back on the mound in nine to 12 months.
"Everybody I've spoken to is expecting him to make a full recovery regardless, but the 
fact that it's his left leg does help him," Mozeliak said. "He's young, he's healthy and people 
usually come back from this and they do well."
Wainwright will wear a device offering no mobility until he gradually transitions to a cast
 and, eventually, a boot before returning to full strength.
Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright will miss the rest of the season because of a torn left 
Achilles tendon.
Wainwright will have surgery later this week, likely Thursday, and recovery time is
generally nine to 12 months.
"Unfortunate news, but not unexpected after what we saw," St. Louis general manager 
John Mozeliak said before the Cardinals played the Philadelphia Phillies.
Wainwright was hurt while batting Saturday in Milwaukee. This is the second major
injury of Wainwright's career. The right-hander missed the 2011 season while recovering
 from Tommy John surgery.



ADD: Christian Brothers College named their 
new baseball field in honor of long time 
Cardinals player and 
broadcaster Mike Shannon. 
The school announced on Wednesday
 that their new 
baseball field will be called Mike Shannon 
Stadium. Shannon 
is a 1957 graduate of 
CBC.














The Visionary Awards were held last Sunday at The Sun Theater in Midtown St Louis.
The awards  honored seven women in the St 
Louis community that contributed to the arts. 
The honorres were from LEFT:  Thelma Steward, Freida L. Wheaton, Amy Kaiser, Illene Berman, 
Shualee Cook,  Cecilia Nadal and Kelly Pollock. 

To see pics and recap 
go to http://outstagin.blogspot.com/2015/04/out-197-st-louis-visionary-awards-sun.html

estuarant
As we celebrate 10 years of blogging on July 5 we 
will highlight some of the stories 
reported and covered over the years each week.

THIS WEEK 2006
Last Thursday, I checked out Hipster Magazine's The Official Phat Farm BEYOND THE GREEN Club Tour party at the JAzz Loft that was hosted by rap/fashion mogul Russell Simmons with ATL's DJ Tayrok on the 1s and 2s. I got there about 10:30 p.m. and got siked about checking this party out(That is me in the upper right hand corner with hollabackboi in shades. Thanks to Jacob of ST Louis Online for taking the pic).

When I got there, it was like I was going to a Hollywood premeire. They had a red carpet diplay in the front of the club, beaming rays of lights and a big ole tub of comp Anhueser Draft bottled beer right before you enetered the club (The only thing missing were the paparazzi and the array of onlookers hanging on to see the celebs. They had the big tall bouncer (who was dressed like Shaq does when he is in dress clothes and brim hat)who was checking IDs before you eneterd and some of the First Friday security guys were patting folks down (I managed to escape all this becasue I know them quite well).

So I got my free beer and went inside. I went to the front desk ladies to see if my name was on the list and it wasnt. I didnt sweat it because I didnt mind patronizing this event becasue it was definitely the atmosphere that turned me on to this and who was hosting this (IT was only 10 bones to get in). So when I went inside, it was like the club morphed into a Hollywood nightclub: two go-go female dancers on pedestals near the dance floor, two colorful spotlights and a projected screen of commericals on Anheuser Busch products was shown at the back of the club where the garage door was. They also had male models dressed in black t-shorts and jeans wearing TV monitors on their persons that were showing the same commercials. I was very impressed.

http://maatspear.blogspot.com/2006/05/out-45.html


THIS WEEK 2007
t do much this week cause of my getting this fashion show together, but I did manage to get out to SYGU/Kevin McCoy’s event, SOLE, at Palm House at Tower Grove Park. My organization Maatology Productiosn was one of the featured groups to pass out fliers (the other was Last Sunday/Perfection). My crew walked up to the spot which included Marquita Parker and fashion show models Renaud and Brandon (PICTURED ABOVE).

We had on all black and we were about to make an impression, but when we walked on the red carpet outside the venue, the photographers looked at us as though we were Columbine shooters cause they didn’t even budge to take our picture. What was up with that? Anyway, when we got inside, we did our thing passing out fliers for the Testosocouture event. We got therr about 8ish . By the time the crowd got therre, it wa s time to go (they were flashing the lights at 11:50). The hightlight was the SOLE mascot  coming to the event and gettin his party on (I wonder who was in the suit and the suit?LOL?). It was definitely something surprisingly unexpected.
http://maatspear.blogspot.com/2007/05/out-183.html


THIS WEEK 2008
.Friends, relatives and colleagues of the late Steve Fossett gathered at Washington University in St. Louis this week to pay homage to the alumnus and self-made businessman and adventurer. Fossett, a longtime trustee and booster, and engaged the university as his mission control in his many attempts to fly nonstop around the world, alone, in a balloon. Fossett was declared legally dead in February after disappearing during a one-man airplane flight. He was 63. Last Sept. 3, multimillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett took off from his friend Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, south of Yerrington, on what was supposed to be a short pleasure flight. He never came back. A month-long ground and air search of the remote 20,000-square-mile area by the National Guard and Civil Air Patrol failed to turn up any sign of Fossett or his small plane. An Illinois judge declared Mr. Fossett legally dead on Feb. 15. Mr. Fossett is believed to have left an estate worth more than $10 million.The state of Nevada figures it incurred a $687,000 search bill, even after Mr. Hilton, the hotel magnate, voluntarily sent in a $200,000 check to cover some of the costs.Now, a spokesman for Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons says the state -- facing a fiscal crunch -- will bill Mr. Fossett's widow for that $687,000.
http://maatspear.blogspot.com/2008/05/out-393-stl-tidbitz-and-more.html

THIS WEEK 2009
STL rapper/mogul Nelly has partnered with Romane Fragrances and is set to release his own Apple Bottoms scent.The fragrance is "designed to be the perfect compliment to the lifestyle of the Apple Bottoms woman," celebrating the "beauty and the curves we see in our core female demographic," said a press release. The Apple Bottoms by Nelly Eau de Parfum is infused with a burst of citrus and a subtle pink peony note, and also includes rose and coconut as floral layers. Also, sandalwood, golden amber, velvet musk, and a soft hint of apple blossoms creates the heady signature scent that lingers on the skin, the company's description reads.

The scent will be launched along with a range of beauty products -- consisting of pearlescent body wash products each retailed at $20 and body lotion products retailed at $22. The Apple Bottoms fragrance will be available in two sizes -- 3.4-oz. retailed at $58 and 1.7-oz. retailed at $48.
It will also come packaged in a box designed with decorative golden chains, overlaying a white background.
It is slated to debut in fall 2009 in department and specialty stores.
http://maatspear.blogspot.com/2009/05/out-608-stl-tidbitz-and-more.html

THIS WEEK 2010

WORDZ TO THE WHYZ??????????????????????????????????
Why did singer Chris Brown clown on a Virginia radio station cursing out the host cuz his songs werent getting airtime? Why did the cop taze the teen at the Phillies game when he ran onto the field? Why did Fox 2 ambush Nelly for a comment about his cuzzin during his passing out of scholarship at Lindenwood College? Why are nude pics of Snoop Dig surfacing on the Internet? Why is an Indiana native teen dating his 70 year old plus grandma and both are planning to have a child? Why did talk show host Conan Obrien rip on Jay Leno on 60 Minutes? Why did someone call YOURS TRULY asking what nite porn star Cherokee was going to be at the Mansion House cuz her husband was in love with her? Why did the oil rig explosion happen? And why are surveillance cameras coming to Natural Bridge‏?
http://maatology.blogspot.com/2010/05/out-825-illi-mo-bitz.html

THIS WEEK 2011
A jury of 12 regular jurors and six alternates was selected this week in former Illinois Governor . and reality show star Rod Blagojevich's retrial. There is just one man among the 12 regular jurors.
 Opinionmakers are sayingthat could be a good thing for Blago arguing that men don't like him.
 Meanwhile, A man who worked with ex-Governor Blagojevich for years worked against him on the witness stand Wednesday.
 Blagojevich's former chief-of-staff says the then-governor planned to appoint himself to President Obama's vacant senate seat in 2008 if he wasn't satisfied with what he could get in exchange for appointing someone else. He also testified the cash-strapped then-governor talked about putting his wife on a state board or securing a job for her with a company that had state contracts.


Hmm. It’s starting already STRIKE ONE on Blago.

http://maatology.blogspot.com/2011/05/out-997-illi-mo-arts-and-ent-bitz-may-5.html

THIS WEEK 2012

The White House Correspondence Dinner took place Saturday  at the Washington Hilton Hotel, with 2,000 guests including everyone from George Clooney, Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian, Anne Curry and Barbara Walters to of course the Prez and a very chic looking First Lady Michelle Obama.

Jimmy Kimmel hosted evening included a jam-packed red carpet that welcomed tons of celebs. The
President began his comedy routine this year not at the podium but offstage, in a stunt involving a backstage "open-mic" with Obama tossing out lines such as: "Why is she [Kim Kardashian] famous anyway?," "I'm like a five on the 'Just for Mens' scale," "I literally have no idea what I'm saying tonight," and "God forbid we keep Chuck Todd and the cast of Glee waiting."
http://maatology.blogspot.com/2012/05/out-1132-illi-mo-bitz-may-3-9.html

THIS WEEK 2013
A St. Louis-born golfer Judy Torluemke was been selected to join the St. Louis Walk of Fame in the Delmar Loop. Her star is located at 6146 Delmar in The Loop, across from the Moonrise Hotel.  The dedication ceremony had taken place April 29
http://outstagin.blogspot.com/2013/05/os-72-stage-bitz-may-2-8.html
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THIS WEEK 2014
Why did Donald Sterling's jump off tape his controversial comments? Why did it take a tape for people to realize his racial antics? And why did he play the cancer card now that he is about to lose ownership of The Clippers? Why are people salty that The Clippers players played ball for after the story broke? Why did the L.A. chapter of the NAACP was still rying  to give Sterling a Lifetime Achievement award? Why did Floyd Mayweather post a pic on Instagram of his ex lady's sonogram of the twins she aborted? And why are folk trippin that Nelly has been seen hanging with Mayweather's ex?  Why does Pebbles think suing Viacom for 40 million over the TLC movie will change people's perception of her? Why did that  NBA basketball player steal those crab legs from he grocery store? Why is Mariah Carey trying to compete with Beyonce's digital album? And Why did American Idol have the contestants  vote on whether to send one home or send two home the next week?
http://outstagin.blogspot.com/2014/05/out-137-outstagin-bitz-may-2-8.html






FIT BITZ
We are now debuting a segment called FIT BITZ where 
women and men (mainly in the ILLI MO area) who are 
extremely fit, have fitness model quality and have post their 
fitness pics  on social media.







This week we feature  fitness champ
Valarie Johnson and celebrity fitness
trainer Donta Wade.




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This week we feature fashionista/fashion designer Ola who posted this pic on her 
Facebook page of one of her pics from a recent photo shoots and she was 
working those knee  high brown suede Burberry 
boots. And for those who know her, knows boots are her 
trademark. Her summer ensem is also 
worth mentioning: white blouse with black tank and jeans.




WORDZ TO THE WHYZ
  
Why are media people calling the protesters in Baltimore "thugs"  including 
Erin Burnett? Why is the media praising that Baltimore mom for slapping around
 her son?Why  was Geraldo RIvera calling out  a protester  taunting him and calling him 
an anarchist? And Why does it seem as though the  police is about to give the 
okee doke on the police report regarding Freddie Gray's death
Why does it seem as though the Mayweather-Pacquio fight will end  up
being a rematch? Why does it seem as though Russell Wilson's and Ciara's 
agents brought them together as a couple? Why does Suge Knight 
think Mayweather is going to bail him out of jail?  And Why did Mayweather
say that he was better than Ali?  


If you have any feedback, scoop, or fashion/fitness pics to be featured  email to snaphoney2011@gmail.com or comment below!