Sometimes you can go to a professional event and the most important thing that happens is way outside of the convention center. You’re spending all day looking for an angel investor and you end up meeting them in the parking lot, happens all the time. I had a similar experience at the Congressional Black Caucus convention last week. As much as I wanted the event to be about the making contacts and informative panels the most powerful event of the weekend for me was meeting Oscar Quinzero, a man that I’ll never see or meet again, but who defined the weekend for me.
Actor Jamil Walker Smith has been a professional actor since the age of 9. Most parents might recall his voice from the cartoon “Hey Arnold!” and “Shark Tale.” Others may have seen his character work on shows such as “Girlfriends,” “Cold Case” and “Bones.”
“Mama Dearest” By E. Lynn Harris, $25.99The untimely death of New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris makes the release of his final novel, “Mama Dearest,” even more bittersweet.
Detroit Charter Commission candidate Ken Coleman said he is running for a seat on the nine-member commission because this is a historic opportunity to strengthen a document that, in some areas, is vague and ambiguous.
Gladys Pearson, founder of Making It To The Finish Line, had a vision eight years ago. Today that vision has provided young women an opportunity to be the authors of their own futures.
The return of HBO favorite “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” (Sundays at 9 p.m.) Larry David’s (co-creator of “Seinfeld) improvised half-hour comedy, is not only a cause of celebration for Curb fans, but for “Seinfeld” fans as well.
Detroit City Council candidate James Edward Tate was born in the city of Detroit. He attended Wayne State University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications while serving as an intern with WXYZ’s Channel 7 Action News.Later he was appointed to the position of second deputy chief within the Detroit Police Department where he ran the Office of Public Information and worked as the liaison between the police department, the media, and the citizens of Detroit.
Guest or Host: Who’s Coming to Dinner? When you invite guests over to dinner, usually you try to make sure that the food you have prepared is exactly to the liking of your guests, which is what a good host does. Well, what if the host was the dinner and the guests were parasites? Everyone is a host to parasites whether they are aware of it or not. One definition of a host is: an animal, plant or organism from which a parasite obtains nutrition. A parasite is: an animal, plant or organism which lives on or in an organism of another species (host) of which it obtains nutrition, without making any useful and fitting return.
I’ve been reading and collecting comicbooks since 1981, but the ever increasing price (up to $3.99) has made me cut back on individual issue purchases and go more and more toward a “wait for the trade” mentality. Those trades not only collect a storyline in one volume, they also often cost less than the combined cost of the individual issues being reprinted.
