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First Nighter: Motown: The Musical Gives the Customers What They Came For

David Finkle | Posted 04.15.2013 | Arts
David Finkle

Maybe Motown: The Musical would have been best off not as part reality-show Dreamgirls but as a straight-out Motortown Revue 2013, which it almost is anyway.

Marvin Gaye Clearly Knew 'What's Going On' In The Style Department

The Huffington Post | Michelle Persad | Posted 04.02.2013 | Style

And we want to steal his entire look!

Chris O'Dowd Rocks Out in The Sapphires

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.20.2013 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

As the manager of a girl band looking, Dave Lovelace (Chris O'Dowd) teaches the four Aboriginal singers the distinction between country western and soul music: both are about loss, but in country western they just resign themselves to it and whine.

Marvin Gaye's Ex-Wife Sounds Off On Biopic

Posted 03.14.2013 | Black Voices

With a touring theater production, "My Brother Marvin," in progress and the development of his biopic, "Sexual Healing" underway, Marvin Gaye’s ex-w...

Marvin Gaye’s Sister Tries To Show ‘The Man Behind The Music’

www.washingtonpost.com | Posted 03.05.2013 | Black Voices

Most people know how the story ends: “Singer Marvin Gaye shot twice by father on the eve of his 45th birthday.” But not as many know the lifeti...

Kate Abbey-Lambertz

Marvin Gaye: The Man Behind The Music

HuffingtonPost.com | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 02.14.2013 | Detroit

A new play about legendary singer Marvin Gaye sets out to tell the unknown story of a revered musician from the point of view of one of the people clo...

Marvin Gaye Theater Production Set To Begin

Posted 02.19.2013 | Black Voices

The untold story of Motown legend Marvin Gaye will be the topic of the forthcoming theatrical drama “My Brother Marvin,” producers announced Tuesd...

Conversations With José James, Otis Taylor, Erin Boheme and Renaiszance's Radha & Ravé Mehta, Plus an Unknown Component Video

Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.06.2013 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

"My mother is Irish-American and my father is Afro-Panamanian, so it's kind of been the story of my life to be a bridge between different cultures and different styles, and musically, that's between jazz and R&B."

Sadie Hawkins was K.I.A.

Harold Ross | Posted 03.30.2013 | Women
Harold Ross

If a military draft is ever needed again, Panetta's Pandora Box will not be closed. Then, women will have another choice -- namely, that of the Conscientious Objector.

What Chicanos (Mexican-Americans) Can Learn From the Revolutionary Steve Jobs in a New Era

DeeDee Garcia Blase | Posted 02.20.2013 | Latino Voices
DeeDee Garcia Blase

I think it's time to snap out of this crusty old thinking, and it might be a healthy idea for us to evaluate whether or not we are becoming blind sheep. Life-giving blood is constantly on the move in our veins, but do we act like it? Should we not be more alive, passionate and become a positive source of energy?

On This Day In History.. Marvin Gaye Had His First Hit Go #1

Posted 12.14.2012 | Detroit

On this day in history... Marvin Gaye scored his first #1 hit with "I Heard It Through The Grapevine." The Motown Records ditty was written by N...

Marvin Gaye's Son BLASTS Lenny Kravitz Biopic

Posted 12.03.2012 | Entertainment

What's going on? Not much, just Marvin Gaye's son expressing his displeasure at the recent news that his father's life is being turned into a biopic s...

Lenny Kravitz To Play Marvin Gaye

AP | Posted 01.27.2013 | Entertainment

NEW YORK — Lenny Kravitz has signed on for his first leading film role, playing singer Marvin Gaye in a biopic that will be shot next year. The...

Lenny Kravitz To Play Marvin Gaye

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 11.20.2012 | Entertainment

Lenny Kravitz has lined up a starring role in a Marvin Gaye biopic, The Evening Standard reports. The project is directed by Julian Temple, known ...

Five Great Date Ideas in D.C.

Party Earth | Posted 01.01.2013 | DC
Party Earth

With so many young people in one place competing for each other's attention, the importance of knowing the best bars in D.C. for dating borderlines on social Darwinism.

The Games Played by Universal Soldiers

Doug Bradley | Posted 12.18.2012 | College
Doug Bradley

As we see with the Marines in Matterhorn in the heat of battle, they aren't pulling the trigger each time to defend democracy so much as defend themselves and each other as brothers.

PHOTOS: Who's The Most Powerful Singer Of All-Time?

Posted 10.08.2012 | Black Voices

The art of singing involves various assets that are vital not only in the recording studio, but also during live performances. Not to mention the imp...

Takin' It to the Suites

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 10.30.2012 | Politics
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Mitt Romney: He's not a leader, but he plays one on TV. Mitt Romney: the American Idol candidate.

Retro Songs That All Your Wedding Guests Will Love

DJ Shakee | Posted 10.30.2012 | Weddings
DJ Shakee

While it probably goes without saying that 70's, 80's and 90's songs can mix seamlessly with current pop and top 40 music, with technology making things so accessible, you can even find remixes of music from the 50's and 60's that will fit into your set just as well!

8 Dapper Dons Who Were Made in the Past

styleblazer.com | Posted 07.19.2012 | Black Voices

Let's face it, men of the former years had exceptional taste. Heading out for a stroll down Madison Avenue called for a double-breasted jacket, titled...

What's Going On: The Youth Radio Remix

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 07.02.2012 | Entertainment
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

If there aren't enough musicians these days producing albums that will help Americans cope...we can always reach back into the vault.

Next Holograms: Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye & Michael Jackson?

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 04.19.2012 | Entertainment

Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg will beam up the Tupac hologram again for the upcoming second weekend of Coachella, but the producer and now-occasional rapper ...

Under the Covers: A Musical Parlor Game

Michael Sigman | Posted 06.10.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Sigman

Most of these interpretations do the material proud, though some may leave you wanting to, well, hide under the covers. Making up your own lists and sharing with friends might make for a more soul-satisfying parlor game than, say, Geography.

Marvin Gaye, Unearthed: How A Buried Track Came To See Light of Day

Turnstyle | Posted 06.02.2012 | Entertainment
Turnstyle

By Brandon McFarland Marvin Gaye's classic album, What's Going On, is approaching its 40th anniversary. In celebration, The John F. Kennedy Memoria...

Random Midday Hotness: Marvin Chilling — And Killing It

Gene Demby | Posted 06.02.2012 | Black Voices
Gene Demby

Here's Marvin Gaye, who would have been 73 today, performing "I Want You" while lounging on the couch in a Belgian hotel room. Epic.