As most Forgotten New York readers know, I enjoy maps, especially historic ones that show what the streets of NYC looked like in previous decades. Today, I’ll review an outline map of Queens I saw posted on Facebook by Todd Berkun. This outline map […]
By Mark Anthony Neal Photographs by Hank Willis Thomas and Deb Willis Styled by Alex Harrington PATTI LABELLE’S superpower is a spellbinding scream — a refined shriek, really — that makes hairs stand at attention, bones shiver and spines twist. It was 1975 when I first heard it. I […]
When Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí first put a lobster on a dress, he wanted to be provocative. It worked. His 1937 collaboration with boundary pushing fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli caused consternation. The silk organza A-line gown they created together, subsequently worn by Wallis Simpson in the […]
Rihanna has been putting in that work and Forbes Magazine has recognized her efforts. The sultry mogul, whose estimated net worth is $600 million, is the publication’s newest member of its coveted “America’s Richest Self-Made Women” list for 2020. The fashion and beauty maven topped out on […]
It’s time for yet another awards ceremony with a virtual stage! This time, it’s MTV’s biggest night for music—the Video Music Awards (VMAs)! The actual ceremony as a whole was pretty—er—white, but here’s a Black-ass fact: Keke Palmer was the first-ever Black woman to host […]
By Joséphine Li Nintendo, The Japanese video game company had a phenomenal lockdown-hit quarter—that’s April through June, and its sales are still skyrocketing—as their social simulation video game Animal Crossing continues to be a sales juggernaut that drives purchases of the Switch hardware. The […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company is partnering with Brooklyn’s Long Island University to launch the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment. The new school will begin enrolling students for the fall 2021 semester, and 25% of the […]
(Photo credits: www.artbusiness.com) by Viviane Faver One of the most extensive African American art galleries in the United States, the ZuCot Gallery in Atlanta, announced this week an exhibition by Chukes, one of the most dynamic artists in the country in […]
Upon news Thursday that Showtime is developing a limited series about the life of singer, actress and activist Lena Horne, we’re revisiting her Tony Award-winning 1981 Broadway musical that also portrayed her life story and will be included in the series. Showtime’s “Blackbird: Lena Horne and America,” from […]
The shuttering of theaters has caused the dance world untold damage, yet there has been an upshot: the increased accessibility of high-end dance, as productions stream online, free. In a way, the moment harkens back to an earlier time, when the kind of […]
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