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Salters Scene: JRG Hot Couture Press Party

JRG Model

On October 23, JRG held a press party at the Pacific Heights Lofts (on Pacific Street in Brooklyn) for the Glance Hot Couture Runway Fashion Show.  The fashion show will take place (tonight) Saturday November 14, 2009 at the Grand Army Plaza New York  Public Library in Brooklyn. 

JRG Models

Guests at the press party had the opportunity to peruse the Pacific Height Lofts that, in its development phase, and ask questions of the developer and realtor.  Additionally, the lovely JRG models and designers mingled through out the night.  Food, drinks, music and fashion were all the necessary ingredients for a great party.   

JRG Model

For more information about the Glance Hot Couture Runway Fashion
Show and other JRG events long onto  http://www.jrgfash.com/

Check out the HWMag gallery for more images from this event.

 

Columbia Prof Assaults Employee

News

Columbia associate professor Lionel McIntyre assaulted Margaret Camille Davis, a production manager at the Columbia University School of the Arts, on Friday night—punching her and bruising her eye, according to police reports and local eyewitnesses.

McIntyre, a 59-year-old associate professor in the urban design program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, was arrested on charges of assault and harassment on Monday, according to Lt. John Grimpel. Grimpel also confirmed that Davis reported the incident to the 26th Precinct in Harlem earlier that day.

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HW Pick: New York, Alicia Keys and Jay-Z

Music

Jay Z & Harlem native Alicia Keys perform Empire State Of Mind live at the World Series 2009 Game 2…

…in the Yankee Stadium on October 29, 2009. Love this song, especially live with the Alicia Keys solos.

Watch it in HD!

Sammy Sosa Skin Rejuvenation?

Sammy Sosa shocks fans and photograhers with noticably pale skin on the red carpet at the Latin Grammy Awards.

The former Cubs slugger is reported going through a skin rejuvenation process. Yeah, that’s right skin rejuvenation?

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Erectile Dysfunction, An Indication of Diabetes

News

Erectile Dysfunction:

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the persistent inability (over a period of 3 months or longer) to get or keep an erection adequate for sexual activity.  It is estimated to affect more than 150 million men worldwide and up to 30 million in the United States. 

Bedbug Outbreak at Lenox Terraces

Exclusive

Over the last few days we have had two sources contact us regarding the Lenox Terraces on 135th Street and Lenox Avenue outbreak of bedbugs throughout their facilities.

The first source, who lives in the building, said that the Lenox Terraces have kept the out break silent because of the “stature” of the building in the community. The source, also said that the Lenox Terrace management did not want the outbreak to get into the news, saying that news of such a “prestigious nature” of it’s tenants (Rep. Charles Rangel, etc.,), word getting out would have a negative effect on the apartments.

The second source, who lives in the neighborhood mentioned that the bedbug breakout has been in effect at the Lenox Terraces for sometime and that the management has kept it silent for the same reasons mentioned above.

Costco Opens In E. Harlem

The largest “warehouse club” in the country is opening its first store in Manhattan.

Local shoppers finally get the chance to buy in bulk from the place where bargains are big and the merchandise even bigger.

Super-wholesaler Costco, which failed to open a Manhattan store in three previous attempts over the last decade, will unveil Thursday a 105,000 square-foot discount emporium at East River Plaza, a shopping mall overlooking the FDR at 116th street.

Harlem Healthcare, Rihanna, and Mentoring on The Danny Tisdale Show

The Danny Tisdale Show!
Life, Style & Business

Join us this week with Dr. Deborah Williams, Touro College, about the state of Healthcare and Harlem, relationship expert on Rihanna and Dating in Harlem, and the mentoring movement with Rochelle Hill, Executive Director of Harlem CARES Mentoring Movement and Rustin Lewis President of the National CARES Mentoring Movement.

On air: Thursday, November 12th, 6:30 pm!

What does The Donald, Omarosa, and TV One have in Common?

Media

Real estate and entertainment mogul Donald J. Trump has partnered with TV One on a groundbreaking new reality series to debut in the Spring of 2010.

Entitled, “Omarosa’s Ultimate Merger,” the show will put a cadre of 12 successful bachelors through a gauntlet of tests. These challenges are designed to play upon their weaknesses, test their business acumen, measure their seductive strengths, and draw out their true intentions. Will she marry for love or for money? And can this bevy of bachelors tame this shrew?

Beltran Wants Delgado Says in Harlem

Sports

Carlos Beltran, who stopped off at field at 100th Street this morning to promote the Harlem RBI program, said he visited with Carlos Delgado before coming to New York. Delgado told him he plans to play winter ball in Puerto Rico to “show everyone that he’s going to be back, that he’s ready.”

BET Producer Stokes dies

Obit

BET.com News Producer Tracy Stokes has died.

According to his mother, Lilly Stokes, a retired teacher living in North Carolina, Tracy died a 4:07 p.m. November 8, 2009 at Wake Med Hospital in Raleigh. He had pneumonia in both lungs, she said. Stokes succumbed to complications from kidney failure. He was 37 years old.

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Salters Scene: EXXXOTICA Expo 2009

Heather Hunter

September 25th, 2009 began the three-day extravaganza EXXXOTICA Expo 2009.   Some of the biggest names of the adult entertainment industry were in attendances:  Sean Michaels, Heather Hunter, Mr. Marcus, Tera Patrick and Nyomi Banxxx to name a few.  Holding such an adult-themed event for the masses can draw some attention.   While there was less controversy this year, last year the original town of choice Secaucus New Jersey said NO.  Forced to move things rapidly, the event organizers came up with Edison New Jersey.  No need to rock the boat, so they returned to Edison’s Expo Center this year.

Nyomi Banxxx

Far from an all out wild escapade, the EXXXOTICA Expo 2009 was very business like.  Adult film stars shook hands and signed autographs for their fans.  Erotica book authors like Monica Martinez, talked about her books and erotic writing, while artist Fang Ling Lee talked about her paintings of adult film stars and the praises that she has received for her work.   

Mr. Marcus

Although a stroll through the expo may have raised an eye brow or forced an incredulous smile, it was the Strip for Pain game that really pushed the limits for some.  A game held on the main stage, where men from the audience volunteered to have ladies from the Burning Angels site inflict pain upon them.  The winner of the game probably second guessed why he got involved, after leaving the stage with various bruises and a stomach full of some awful concoction he was forced to eat.

Fang Ling Lee

For more images of EXXXOTICA Expo 2009 check out the HWMag gallery.

Woman survives near miss subway

News

Incredible CCTV footage of the moment a tube train stops…

…just inches from a ‘drunk’ woman who fell on the tracks in Boston.

3 Holiday Tables, 23 New Ideas

Harlem for the Holidays

Table 1: Traditional with a Twist

You don’t have to spend a lot to set a beautiful holiday table. The secret is to invest in a few classic pieces you can use over and over again. Weave fun, inexpensive accessories into your tabletop to create a unique display for each occasion from Thanksgiving through New Years. Here are three seasonal table ideas and 23 products to inspire you.

When I’m setting a traditional table, I like to give a nod to the past but also add some unexpected touches. For example, try using yellow instead of orange and gold for Thanksgiving. Start with the right tablecloth to set the stage for a festive evening. A runner, especially on a dark wood table, is the perfect way to add some visual dimension and whimsy.

 

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Cornell Students Gain Entrepreneurial Experience through Harlem Hospitality Project

Students in the Hospitality Industry Practicum at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration are putting their academic skills to work in the real world by helping plan the Harlem Hospitality Project (HHP), a venture designed to provide educational opportunities to students in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City through both an academic curriculum and a working hotel.

The five students collaborating on the project are charged with forming a plan for HHP’s academic program, preparing a strategic marketing plan, and conducting a feasibility study to evaluate the viability of the hotel. The Hospitality Industry Practicum—a multidisciplinary course that fosters skills in entrepreneurship, innovation, and project management—is sponsored by the Hospitality Innovation Program in the school’s Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship. Amy Newman, lecturer, and Kate Walsh, associate professor, are co-facilitating the project.

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Harlem’s Dancy-Power Group Closes

Dancy-Power Automotives Group which opened with tons of fan fair this past summer closed last week as quickly as it opened. How quickly did they close? They closed so fast, that we didn’t have time to speak to the company spokesperson to find out what they did with the million dollar Michael Jackson painting in the window.

The last time we were at the retail space that sits on the corner of 129th Street and Lenox on the uptown side of the street, a man was taking the down the luxury car posters that covered the windows.

NBA star and Harlemite Abdul-Jabbar has leukemia

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia, and the basketball great said his prognosis is encouraging.

The NBA’s all-time leading scorer was diagnosed last December with chronic myeloid leukemia, he told The Associated Press on Monday.

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Youth Channel’s Red Carpet Event in Harlem

Our Red Carpet Youth Events usually consist of the outcomes from our  Media Literacy and Psa/Documentary trainings/ workshops. These FREE trainings are usually with different groups such as schools and organizations throughout New York City.

Music With Marko: Nakia Henry

Music

Nakia Henry – “Remember Me”, An Unforgettable Debut!

“Remember Me” is the debut cd from artist Nakia Henry. After listening to early tracks that would be included in the full project I was very interested to hear the entire cd but those tracks in no way prepared me for the sheer joy I would experience in listening to the cd in full.

Court Opens Police Violence Report

Crime

In a victory for open-government and police accountability, the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled today that “use of force” reports, which document the circumstances surrounding a police officer’s use of violence against a citizen, are government records that must be made available to the public under the Open Public Records Act (OPRA).

Wounded Warriors at the White House

Politics

A group of wounded veterans from Walter Reed Army Medical Center show President Obama a thing or two about basketball on the White House court.

We wish the best to our troops who fight our right for the freedoms we have.

Maysles: A Week in Cinema

	Monday, Nov. 9 6:30 pm F.R.E.E. FILM FORUM More info about FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment> In Prison My Whole Life Dir. Mark Evans, 2008, 90 min. In Prison My Whole Life is about a man: a father, a son, an inspiration and a pariah – who currently faces his twenty-fifth year on Death Row. His name is Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black Panther and radical journalist who was arrested for the murder of a police officer in Philadelphia in 1981. He claimed he was innocent but was sentenced to death and has been awaiting execution ever since. Panel discussion to follow. Speakers TBA. Thursday, Nov. 12 7:30 pm NEW DOCUMENTARIES IN BLOOM With Livia Bloom Good Hair Dir. Jeff Stilson, 2009, 95 min. Good Hair seeks to explore some of the aspects of African American hair and hair care. According to Chris Rock, he was prompted to produce the movie after his 5-year old daughter, Lola, asked him, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” During his quest for knowledge, Chris Rock delves into the $9 billion black hair industry, and visits such places as beauty salons, barbershops, conventions, scientific laboratories (to learn the science behind chemical relaxers that straighten hair), and India, where many of the hair weaves worn by African American women are from.. Followed by audience discussion led by producer/writer Nelson George Friday, Nov. 13 7:30 pm NEW DOCUMENTARIES IN BLOOM With Livia Bloom Good Hair Dir. Jeff Stilson, 2009, 95 min. Good Hair seeks to explore some of the aspects of African American hair and hair care. According to Chris Rock, he was prompted to produce the movie after his 5-year old daughter, Lola, asked him, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” During his quest for knowledge, Chris Rock delves into the $9 billion black hair industry, and visits such places as beauty salons, barbershops, conventions, scientific laboratories (to learn the science behind chemical relaxers that straighten hair), and India, where many of the hair weaves worn by African American women are from. Saturday, Nov. 14 2 pm FILM CLUB PRESENTS Website> Curated by Mariah Balaban The main theater is sold out for My Dinner With Andre. More tickets may be available at the box office day of the show, on a first come, first serve basis. Suggested donation tickets will be available for the downstairs simulcast of the film and post screening conversation. Cocktail reception open to all. My Dinner with Andre Dir. Louis Malle, 1981, 110 min. A bold experiment in film narrative that paid off in critical raves and cult status, Louis Malle’s drama consists almost entirely of the dinner conversation of two real-life friends. More or less playing themselves, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn wrote their own dialogue, which ranges in subject from the New York theater world to rain forests, and in tone from hilarious to heartbreaking. Followed by a conversation with Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, and Bob Balaban and a cocktail reception. THE “NEW” NEW DEAL Nov. 14th – 20th Curated by Jason Fox Wall Street! The Federal Stimulus! Health Care! It has been many generations since the American public has so candidly asked itself, “what, and where exactly, is the public interest?” The “New” New Deal examines that ever-shifting boundary between “the public” and “the private” in American life with films focusing on the digital age, labor organizing, and the outsourcing of national war, alongside classic films funded by that last great model of one American social ideal, The New Deal. Saturday, Nov. 14, 7:30 pm THE “NEW” NEW DEAL Curated by Jason Fox God is My Safest Bunker Dir. Lee Wang, 2008, 42 min. More than 30,000 low-wage workers from Southeast Asia work for American military contractors in Iraq, cleaning toilets, serving food and building barracks. Through the stories of three Filipino workers and their families, Wang’s probing documentary investigates the conditions – both domestic and global – which have forced economic migration into the Iraqi war zone, and how they are understood as lived experience. Panel Discussion. Speakers tba. Q&A with Director Lee Wang Sunday, Nov. 15 7:00 pm 9:00 pm KEELING’S CARRIBEAN SHOWCASE Curated by Keeling Beckford of Keeling’s Reggae Music and Videos> Pressure Horace Ove, 1975, 120 min. Hailed as Britain’s first black feature film, Pressure is a hard-hitting and honest document of the struggle and disenchantment faced by British-born black youths. Set in 1970s London, it tells the story of Tony, son of West Indian immigrants who find himself torn between his parent’s church-going conformity and his brother’s Black Power militancy. In his own un-heroic, honest way Tony goes along with his families aspirations for him. Portraits of Jamaican Music Pierre Marc Simonin, 2003, 52 min. Limiting Jamaican music to just reggae would be most unfair. Within a forty year period jamaicans have invented mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, and hardcore dancehall (sometimes known in the west as ragga). Take a visual trip down memory lane and relive several great episodes with Johnny Moore and The Skatalites, Toots and the Maytals, and Bunny Wailer. Pressure

Congratulations Germany!

Today, November 9th is the 20th Anniversary of the end of The Wall in Germany.

Much like the election of our new American president, it proves that change can happen, it’ s possible and it all depends on the people. Change is not about money, it’s not about great leaders, it’s about regular folks – like you!

If it’s true that all politics are local, what do you want to happen locally?

Maya Angelou and Friends at Riverside Church

Event

Our media friend Ms. Drama sent this video to us after she attending the Evening with Dr. Maya Angelou and Friends at Riverside Church this weekend. The event was hosted by Tom Joyner and Common presented a spoken word piece.

The crowd received a special surprise when Dr. Angelou recited one of her poem, “Still I Rise “. The camera and sound is a bit shaky, but you get the essence of the event.

Harvest Tea at National Action Network

Event

Join Mrs. Kathy Jordan-Sharpton, Chairperson and the Honorable Theresa Freeman-Timmons, President of the New York City Chapter Women’s Auxiliary for a Harvest Tea, Tenth Annual, at the House of Justice, 106 West 145^th Street, in Harlem, NY at the National Action Network, on Saturday, November 14, 2009, 2:00pm.

Dog Training, Bud Light Ad

Media

This is not a paid an “advertisement” by Anheuser-Busch, but we think the commercial is hilarious.

Especially how at the end you can obviously tell it’s a someone in a dog suit cutting the wheel to the right.

Feds Probe Workers Dispute in Harlem

News

The nation’s first housing development to start construction with federal stimulus money is under investigation for cheating workers out of wages, the Daily News has learned.

In August, Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Paterson and a gaggle of local politicians stood on an empty lot on E. 102nd St. to announce the city was converting nearly $60 million in federal stimulus money into 739 affordable homes.

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Eateries Accused Of Racism in Harlem

Community

Two Upper East Side restaurants refuse to deliver uptown to East Harlem, but they willingly schlep longer distances downtown to service a more affluent and more white neighborhood. An investigation by the Post reveals that both Chinese Mirch on Second Avenue between 94th and 95th streets and One Fish Two Fish on Madison Avenue and 97th Street declined to deliver to addresses located 15 blocks to the north, but readily fulfilled orders 20 blocks to the south — a delivery discrepancy that “smacks of racism,” according to state Sen. Bill Perkins (D-Harlem). “The difference between north and south is black and white,” he said.

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HW Poll: Harlem Healthcare Results

Health

In our very unscientific Harlem Healthcare poll that was posted for a week. The results showed that out of the people who took the time to take the poll 40% of the Harlem World News Blog readers have Health Insurance.

If we take into consideration that 50% of the men in Harlem who are African American are unemployed, these are very troubling figures.

HW

Pelosi and Americans Win the Day

Heath

Nancy Pelosi clapped her hands as she left the House floor late Saturday night.

“That was easy,” the speaker said with a smile.

It wasn’t. She had just delivered a promise decades of her predecessors failed to bring home, harnessing her uncommon focus, vote-counting acumen and consensus-building skills to bring tens of millions of Americans a giant leap closer to having health insurance coverage with a 220-215 roll call.

“Somebody asked me if this was a victory for [President] Barack Obama. It’s not. This victory belongs to her,” said House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.). “As far as I know she never sleeps nor eats.”

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