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11/9/15 O&A NYC Song Of The Day: Leon Bridges – Coming Home

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Coming Home is the debut studio album by soul singer and Fort Worth, Texas native Leon Bridges. Bridges has returned to the style that brought soul music to the forefront of world music in 1960’s. Released on June 23, 2015, under Columbia Records, the album was written by Todd Bridges, Austin Michael Jenkins, Joshua Block, Chris Vivion and produced by Niles City Sound. Coming Home released as the lead single from the album on February 2015. Continue reading

11/9/15 O&A NYC Hollywood Monday: In the Heat of the Night

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In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 dramatic mystery film directed by Norman Jewison starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates. The movie is based on the 1965 John Ball novel of the same name, which tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier). Tibbs is a black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in Mississippi. Continue reading

11/8/15 O&A NYC Gospel Sunday: Anita Wilson – You Love Me (Best Of My Love)

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Anita M. Wilson began her career as a backup singer for contemporary gospel acts such as Hezekiah Walker, Marvin Sapp, DeWayne Woods, Donald Lawrence and Vanessa Bell Armstrong. Wilson recorded her first solo album, Worship Soul in 2012. Her new single You Love Me (Best of My Love) is featured on the  album  Vintage Worship. Continue reading

11/7/15 O&A NYC Song Of The Day: Willow Smith- Why Don’t You Cry

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Willow Smith inhabits a world fuelled by an imagination and inquisitiveness that extend far beyond her 14 years on Planet Earth. The “Indigo Child” herself developed the concept and visuals for the brand new track Why Don’t You Cry .   Continue reading

11/7/15 O&A NYC EXTRA Its Saturday- Anything Goes: Rodarte Fall Winter 2015/2016 Full Fashion Show

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Rodarte Fall Winter 2015/2016 inspiration according to designers Laura and Kate Mulleavy was birds. Migrating birds, to be specific. Birds migrating from city to country, to be more so. But he most obvious influence this season was all about disco! Yes disco! There were multicolor sequin stripes; one-shoulder dresses; a crystal mesh material that read as a kind of magic lamé; and that Bob Mackie-style, heavy-duty figurative bead embroidery that’s done a long-term penance in the thrift shop bins. (Now it’s back, apparently.) 

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11/7/15 O&A NYC Its Saturday- Anything Goes: Balmain Menswear Spring Summer 2016 Fashion Show

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Balmain designer Olivier Rousteing left a letter on the seats that expressed his thought process for this collection. “One of the most fascinating things about designing is the – for lack of a better word – “therapeutic value” of what we create. Clothing changes self-perceptions – after all, isn’t that the whole point of this industry?” The collection stood at a cross-roads of cultural influences and the desert exploration embodied a metaphor for creation. Continue reading

11/6/15 O&A NYC With WaleStylez Song Of The Day: Jamie Foxx – Fall For Your Type ft. Drake

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Fall for Your Type is a downtempo ballad recorded by entertainer Jamie Foxx for his fourth studio album Best Night of My Life (2010). It features guest vocals from  rapper Drake, who originally recorded the song for his debut studio album Thank Me Later (2010).  Continue reading

11/6/15 O&A NYC Shall We Dance Friday: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort- Rudolf Nureyev or Mikhail Baryshnikov? You decide

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Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (1946) choreography by Roland Petit, set to Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582, with a one-act libretto by Jean Cocteau. The story of a young man driven to suicide by his faithless lover. Two of the most memorable interrupters of the male role (both stage and film) have been Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov.  Continue reading

11/5/15 O&A NYC Wildin Out Wednesday (On Thursday): Obama Does Thriller

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Our Editor In Chief must have been shuffled between time zones, because somehow Throwback Thursday went out yesterday (Technically it was Thursday in China). In order to make things right today is Wildin Out Wednesday On Thursday. For those of you who haven’t put away your Halloween costume, or are still eat candy corn here is Obama Does Thriller. Continue reading