Good Hair? Good Question

Tina Wells, 10.20.2009

Tina Wells founded Buzz Marketing Group at the age of 16.

What we do to our hair should be for ourselves only, not to fit a stereotype of what's acceptable for us as black women, or women in general.

Chris Rock's Good Hair Gets Tangled in Suit -- One Lawyer's Thoughts

Chad Fitzgerald, 10.16.2009

Entertainment lawyer

Regina Kimbell sued Chris Rock last week, claiming that Rock's new documentary about black hair, Good Hair, copies her 2006 documentary My Nappy Roots.

Relax and Get Good Hair

Esther Iverem, 10.14.2009

Founder and Editor, SeeingBlack.com

In his new film, Good Hair, Chris Rock approaches the subject of black women's hair -- all at once -- like a man, like a novice, like a voyeur, and like a comedian in his investigation of hair weaves and hair straightening relaxers.

Chris Rock's Good Hair Documentary: Something to Talk About

Zorianna Kit, 10.12.2009

www.zoriannakit.tv

When one black, male journalist wanted to know why Rock didn't choose to travel to Africa and show the origins of black women and their "natural" hair" Rock shot back: "That's Soledad O'Brien's job."

Comedian Lenny Bruce Memorabilia at Auction

Reyne Haines, 10.10.2009

Appraiser - Dealer, 20th Century Decorative Arts, CBS Early Show, NBC Art of Collecting

The auction is being held to raise funds for Lenny's House, a non-profit recovery house for women healing from addiction. This is the first time the Estate has ever auctioned off any of its items.

Movie review: Good Hair

Marshall Fine, 10.09.2009

Author and film critic, www.hollywoodandfine.com

Chris Rock gets to the root of the problem early on in his fascinating and often hilarious documentary, Good Hair. It's all about relaxing, he and hi...

The Fall of Roman

Chez Pazienza, 09.29.2009

Editor of Deus Ex Malcontent, Author, Ex-Network News Producer, New Media Consultant

It's true we let talented people get away with quite a bit more than the Average Joe in our society. But Roman Polanski shouldn't be able to avoid prison just because he's Roman Polanski.

Celebrate Saturday Night Live's 35th Season With 35 Great SNL News Spoofs

Glynnis MacNicol, 09.27.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

Long before The Daily Show, long before The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live was making fun of the news in a way that no one had ever seen before.

Good Hair Wars

Adia Colar, 11.09.2009

Publicist, Freelance Writer

The fear of not fitting someone's ideal of beauty should not be a reason for people to continually alter who they are. As Atlanta housewife NeNe told fellow housewife Kim Zolciak, "You do you."

Straight Talking

Lola Jaye, 10.17.2009

Writer

Some believe if you keep your hair natural, you are more in touch with ones "Africanness," whilst those of us who use a relaxer are, let's just say, not that into it.

DVDs: "Hannah Montana" VS "Dragonball"

Michael Giltz, 09.21.2009

Freelance writer and raconteur

Film critics rarely discuss how simply being in the right mood for a dumb college romp/action flick/sappy romance can make you enjoy a movie more than you otherwise might.

Q&A: Channeling Cheney/Rumsfeld, Veteran Actor David Rasche Steps In the Loop

Brad Balfour, 09.17.2009

Veteran Interviewer and Pop Culture Chronicler

When actor David Rasche came into the room, I knew this was going to be a different kind of interview just as In The Loop is a different kind of polit...

North Korea, Bill Clinton, and Jesse Jackson

Byron Williams, 09.09.2009

Syndicated Columnist, pastor of the Resurrection Community Church Oakland, CA

Bill Clinton, by securing the freedom of two jailed American journalists, has assumed the role of the nation's top private diplomat, a distinction once held by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Q&A: Comic Tracy Morgan Empowers His Inner Guinea Pig To Join G-Force

Brad Balfour, 09.08.2009

Veteran Interviewer and Pop Culture Chronicler

From class clown to stand-up comedian and, finally, as a film and television star, Tracy Morgan has made his life and on-going bad boy adventures part...

Good Hair? Bad Hair? Great Style!

Michael Henry Adams, 09.07.2009

Writer, Lecturer, Historian and Activist

The varied and imaginative ways African Americans dress their hair represents a high-point of human creativity that's dependency, the very quintessence of style.

Facebook 'Friends' and the Gentle Art of Summer Poaching

Victoria Lautman, 08.24.2009

My guess is that anyone with over 1,000 Facebook "friends" will probably accede to pretty much anyone. Hear that, Jeff Koons? You might be ignoring me, but I'm down with Damien Hirst.

ReThinking Thank You for Smoking: Tobacco's Last Action Hero?

Jonathan Kim, 09.25.2009

Political Movie Critic, ReThinkReviews.net

The Obama administration just passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. So Will the Nick Naylors of the world soon become extinct? Not by a long shot.

L'Affaire Madoff: Villain? Or Canary in the Mine?

Charles H. Green, 08.03.2009

Author of Trust-based Selling, co-author The Trusted Advisor, speaker, management consultant

It is tempting to dwell on the horror of Bernard Madoff. (Thanks to Robert Scheer for teeing up this issue). How could he have done it? What kind of...

Michael Jackson through the eyes of his first biographer, Nelson George

Andrea Chalupa, 07.27.2009

Editor at Walletpop

Nelson George, Grammy Award winner, filmmaker and author of just-out City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post Soul Success and over a dozen...

Sarah Palin Named Nation's First Humor Czar

Lee Stranahan, 07.16.2009

Filmmaker, Writer, Photographer

At the news conference, Palin was flanked by comedians Larry The Cable Guy and Dennis Miller. Both expressed support for Palin and agreed comedy had gone 'too far' in a direction they called "un-good."

"I Had to Talk to My Dead Husband's Lovers to Learn What Happened in Our Marriage"

Jesse Kornbluth, 07.09.2009

Editor of HeadButler.com

Some books don't end when you finish reading them. Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal is one of those books.