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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.
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1/9/15 O&A Shall We Dance Friday: Black and Blue- The Musical

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Black and Blue is a musical revue celebrating the black culture of dance and music in Paris between World War I and World War II.  Choreographed by Henry LeTang, Cholly Atkins, Frankie Manning, and Fayard Nicholas the cast of forty-one singers, dancers, and musicians included Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins, Carrie Smith, Savion Glover, Claude Williams, Roland Hanna, Grady Tate, Jimmy Slyde, Bill Easley, Jimmy “Preacher” Robins, Lon Chaney (the jazz tap dancer, not the actor) Bunny Briggs and  Dianne Walker. The Broadway production opened on January 26, 1989.  Continue reading

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1/8/15 O&A Throwback Thursday: Usher – You Make Me Wanna and My Way

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Usher Terry Raymond IV is a singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit. Continue reading

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1/8/14 Wildin Out Wednesday: Chappelle’s Show Charlie Murphy True Hollywood Stories – Prince (Uncensored)

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Comedian Charlie Murphy tells the story of his 1985 encounter with Prince. Murphy and his entourage are invited by Prince to his home. Prince challenges Murphy and his crew to play him and the Revolution in a game of basketball- the shirts against the blouses. Continue reading

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1/6/14 O&A Inspirational Tuesday Bonus Edition: Tucker Bryant- Oreo

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Tucker Bryant, performing his poem Oreo for Stanford University during semifinals at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI 2014).
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1/6/15 O&A Inspirational Tuesday: Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life and Leadership

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Oprah Winfrey visited the Stanford Graduate School of Business and sat down for a candid interview on the lessons she’s learned about life and business throughout her 40 year career. During a student-led interview Winfrey shares seminal moments of her career journey and the importance of listening to your instincts. Winfrey also offers advice to students on how to find their calling, “Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.” Continue reading

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1/4/14 O&A Gospel Sunday: Donald Lawrence and The Tri-City Singers

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Donald Lawrence took on The Tri-City Singers after a friend vacated his position as musical director. They derived the name from the three cities that The Tri-City Singers come from are Spartanburg, SC, Gastonia, NC, and Charlotte, NC. In 1993 the group debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top Gospel Charts with A Songwriter’s Point Of View on a then-brand-new independent record label called GospoCentric Records. Continue reading

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1/3/14 O&A Reposted: Herb Ritts – Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood, 1989 (a video tribute)

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An exhibition of rare, vintage photographs by celebrated American photographer Herb Ritts entitled Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood, 1989 was presented last year at the The Edwynn Houk Gallery,745 Fifth Avenue. The exhibition focused exclusively on the five models in his iconic work that came to define the era of the Supermodel. Out and About NYC Magazine has taken many of these images creating a  choreographed montage set to music. We are reposting the video with was first published on March 10, 2014 (the one month anniversary of the publication) in response to the interest in our new article on Supermodel Naomi Campbell.  Continue reading

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2/13/16 (REPOST) O&A NYC ITS SATURDAY ANYTHING GOES: Naomi Campbell Supermodel

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Naomi Elaine Campbell, an English-born model, of African Jamaican descent and Chinese Jamaican ancestry through her paternal grandmother, who carried the family name Ming. Recruited at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognizable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and the 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion world. Continue reading

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1/2/15 O&A Shall We Dance Friday: Storyboard P- An Urban Storyteller

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Storyboard P has pushed street dancing in a darker, more mature direction of urban storytelling he calls Mutant. The twenty-three year old Brooklyn dancer  combines jarring feats of contortion, pantomime, floating footwork and simulated levitation. His choreography, most of it improvised, has a wide range of influences: Jerome Robbins, especially his work in West Side Story; the Nicholas Brothers, whose acrobatic tap-dancing routines amazed Fred Astaire in the nineteen-forties; and, above all, Michael Jackson.  Continue reading

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1/1/15 O&A Throwback Thursday: Herbie Hancock

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Herbert Jeffrey “Herbie” Hancock is a pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet, Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the “post-bop” sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk music. Hancock received fourteen Grammy Awards, five MTV Awards, and is the recipient of the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors.  Continue reading