Dialogue Magazine-Interview with Chrisette Michele
By Dialogue Magazine With more than 30% of America’s workers getting sick from volatile organic compounds from carpeting and furniture, inadequate air circulation, poor lighting, mold buildup and disruptive temperature variances.* More individuals and companies are switching to green cleaning solutions, Green House Eco-Cleaning is one of the companies that specializes in green cleaning and [...]
By Sean Gregory In the late ’80s and early ’90s, rapper Ice Cube and his Los Angeles–based group, N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude), introduced America to “gangsta” rap. Songs like “Express Yourself,” “Straight Outta Compton” and “F___ tha Police” spoke for the urban disenfranchised, both rattling the white establishment and spurring imitators in suburban shopping malls [...]
By Dialogue Magazine For our Business Spotlight this month we caught up with Adrienne Smith, founder of Harlem Hip Hop Tours. Dialogue Magazine: How did you come up with the idea for a Hip Hop tour in Harlem? Adrienne Smith: I was brainstorming with a friend of mine over the holidays, and we were both [...]
By ELLEN GAMERMAN After starring in “The Hurt Locker,” a harrowing film that is now nominated for nine Oscars, Hollywood up-and-comer Anthony Mackie is taking a surreal turn with his next project: a satire about a guy looking for his lost hand. “A Behanding in Spokane,” starting previews on Monday, features Mr. Mackie as a [...]
By Clay Cane Kerry Washington is back in the edgy role of Marybeth, a transgender prostitute with a drug addiction in “Life is Hot in Cracktown.” Based on the book by Buddy Giovinazzo, who also wrote and directed the film, “Cracktown” is a haunting tale of intertwining stories surrounding the crack-cocaine epidemic. The Bronx, N.Y., [...]