Archive for December, 2012

Just Sparkle

Eleven more days. I tell myself this over a sip of English tea, as I mentally and physically prepare for another jam-packed day in the retail marathon to Christmas. It goes without saying this is our most hectic time of the year. […]

Posted in Beauty, Style

Garbo, Dita and Yours Truly: Join Us Tonight

From hair brushes to jeweled shoe clips to a metal four-drawer filing cabinet, some 849 things that once filled the home and life of Greta Garbo are going on the auction block this week courtesy of her family members in charge of her estate and all in the name of funding future art. […]

Posted in Cinema, Style

Must Watch: Celia Cruz in Zaire

As I tickled my laptop keyboard prepping the morning A+R newsletter with Andy, in the other room, Nina and I caught parts of Soul Power, the engrossing 2008 documentary on the three-day music celebration known as “Zaire 74.”

The concerts brought together some 80,000 fans to experience live African and African-American artists as seemingly disparate as Bill Withers and Miriam Makeba in the name of Black Power and, more specifically, the re-match between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman, billed as the “Rumble in the Jungle.”

Every one of the performances—both on and off the stage—are a captivating testament to the power of culture. […]

Posted in Film, Music, Performance, Style
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