Out & About NYC Magazine was founded to offer the arts and lifestyle enthusiast a fresh new look at New York City. We will showcase the established and the emerging, the traditional and the trendy. And we will do it with élan, and panache with a dash of fun.

6/5/21 O&A NYC GOING BACK TO AFRICA WITH WALESTYLEZ: Soul Makossa – Manu Dibango

A true musician never dies, he just stops performing live. Manu Dibango, the Lion of Africa. Continue reading

6/3/21 O&A NYC THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine

The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1974) Continue reading

5/30/21 O&A NYC DANCE: Greenwood- By Donald Byrd Performed By The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Donald Byrd’s fifth Ailey commission draws on the Company’s theatrical roots and legacy of addressing social injustice. The work’s title references a 1921 tragedy that happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s segregated Greenwood District. At the time, it was one of the country’s most affluent African American communities, known as “Black Wall Street.” Continue reading

5/30/21 O&A NYC GOSPEL SUNDAY: Aretha Franklin – Amazing Grace ft. James Cleveland

 In 1972, Reverend James Cleveland collaborated with Aretha Franklin on her historic Grammy-winning and multi-million-selling album Amazing Grace, which is known as the Greatest Gospel Album of All Time. Recorded live at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, California, with his Southern California Community Choir.
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5/26/21 O&A NYC THE MORNING FUNNIES: The PJs S01E02 – Bones, Bugs and Harmony

Thurgood draws the wrong conclusion when he discovers Mrs. Avery eating dog food. Voices of Eddie Murphy, Loretta Devine, Ja’net DuBois, Crystal Scales and Michele Morgan. Continue reading

5/26/21 O&A NYC WALESTYLEZ HIP HOP WEDNESDAY: Nas, JAY-Z, Method Man – 3 Kings

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones better known by his stage name Nas, is a Hip Hop artist and entrepreneur. Rooted in the NewYork Hip Hop scene he is regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time.Nas has released twelve studio albums since 1994, seven of which are certified platinum and multi-platinum in the U.S. Continue reading

5/24/21 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat (1941)

Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat is a 1941 hit boogie-woogie popular song written by Don Raye. A bawdy, jazzy tune, the song describes a laundry woman from Harlem, New York, United States, whose technique is so unusual that people come from all around just to watch her scrub. 

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