Its official!!!! The holiday shopping season is now underway. Here are a few ideas for the men, women and children on your gift giving list. The Amazon links are included. Continue reading
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9/26/15 O&A NYC With WaleStylez- Fashion: Solexchange Sneaker Show NYC
By Adewale Adekanbi
Solexchange Sneaker Show NYC is back in New York this Saturday, September 26 at the Jacob Javits Center. The bi-annual sneaker extravaganza brings out traders, buyers and sneaker heads in search of vintage, limited edition and custom-made athletic footwear. Continue reading
9/22/15 O&A NYC With WaleStylez: The Latest G-Class to Get Mansory’s Carbon Fiber Treatment
By Adewale Adekanbi Jr.
Mansory has touched the German manufacturer to unveil an upgraded Mercedes-Benz G-Class the Gronos Black Edition. Limited to only six models, the Gronos boasts performance enhancements due to its entire body kit being made from lightweight carbon-fiber. Finished with a matte black paint job, the machine is sat atop a colossal set of 23-inch rims. Of course being a Mansory motor, the Gronos isn’t all show and no go as it comes with a reworked 5.5-litre V8 with genuine racing components.
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8/24/15 O&A Inspirational Tuesday: Janet Mock
Janet Mock is a writer, transgender rights activist, author and the former staff editor of People magazine’s website. She underwent sex reassignment surgery in Thailand at age 18 in the middle of her first year in college. She came out publicly as a trans woman in a 2011 Marie Claire article, but took issue with how the author misgendered her by stating she was born and raised as a boy. Mock lives in New York City with her fiancé, photographer Aaron Tredwell. Continue reading
2/23/15 O&A With Walestylez- Dining Out Nigerian Style In Brooklyn
By Adewale Adekanbi
New Combination/V Chris Restaurant Inc. located at 568 Utica Avenue between Rutland Road and Winthrop Street has been serving some of the best Nigerian cuisine in Brooklyn since 2000. This small storefront restaurant is one of the best kept secrets in East Flatbush. Continue reading
1/19/15 O&A Martin Luther King, Jr. on Income Inequality and Redistribution of Wealth + James Baldwin
Excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches dealing with income inequality and wealth redistribution. In a time when these very issues are at the levels of the 1930’s his words still ring with a clarity and truth. Plus an excerpt from an interview with James Baldwin who poses a chilling question for America. Continue reading
1/14/15 O&A Auto: Mercedes F015 Autonomous Self-Driving Hydrogen Car
The F 015 Luxury in Motion is a huge electric car that drives itself around, with passengers being connected at all times to the outside of the car with help of six high-resolution touchscreen display panels placed on the doors. Passengers can use touch, gestures and eye movements to see outside the car. Powering the car are an electric motor and hydrogen fuel cell, Reuters reports. The F 015 has a lightweight impact-resistant structure of carbon-fiber, aluminum and steel. Continue reading
1/13/15 O&A WITH WALESTYLEZ: Parra Art Exhibit
By Adewale Adekanbi Jr.
Parra an Amsterdam-based Dutch artist, is presenting Yer So Bad- his series of new works at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery January 8 through February 7, 2015. Yer So Bad showcases a continuation of Parra’s witty and salacious post-pop imagery. Titled after the Tom Petty song, Yer So Bad, which tells the story of a girl who marries a “yuppie” and takes him for all he’s worth, this exhibition features the artist’s signature hybrid figures and freeform typography in works on canvas and paper. Continue reading
2/13/16 (REPOST) O&A NYC ITS SATURDAY ANYTHING GOES: Naomi Campbell Supermodel
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
11/12/14/ O&A Kim Kardashian West No “Butts” About It
Paper Magazine winter issue concept was to Break The Internet. So the person they chose was reality star and pop culture queen Kim Kardashian West. Including previously unreleased full footage nudes- true to the Kardashian brand. Continue reading
