Hip-hop is in his blood and listening to Eric B and Rakim and other hip-hop made him feel like this is right where he was supposed to be. The hip-hop culture is good and he appreciates being a part of it. The music is starting to wake up because hip-hop music was in a depressed time, said Lindsey King, 28, who learned a great deal growing up in a tough neighborhood in the Hill District on Whiteside Road. LINDSEY KING The son of a mother who is a poet and a hard working father, music is in his blood. He is also the great nephew of acclaimed jazz great, Stanley Turrentine, who was a great influence on his career.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP)—Ellen DeGeneres couldn’t be talked into staying with “American Idol,” a Fox executive said, creating a second opening for change in the show’s 10th season. Who will fill her judge’s chair and the one vacated by Simon Cowell were questions left unanswered by Peter Rice, chairman of entertainment for the Fox Networks Group. RANDY JACKSON is the only original judge left, and he may be replaced. “There are no deals signed on either side of the camera” with newcomers, Rice told a meeting of the Television Critics Association.
Thursday 5 Cabaret series The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents its Late Night Cabaret Series with the Pittsburgh Improv Comedy Jam at 10 p.m. at the Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., Cultural District. Every Thursday until Sept. 23, the city’s best improv performances will take the stage. It’s fast, funny and sophisticated. Tickets are $5 and the event is for individuals 21 years and older. For more information, call Randy Kirk at 412-325-6766 or e-mail kirk@pgharts.org.
Who said relationships were easy? Whoever he was, he was wrong. Your beloved has good traits and bad, which mesh with yours only sometimes. There’s give in a relationship and there’s take, and it’s balanced if you’re lucky. Some days, love fills you up and other days, you wonder what you were thinking when you chose that man. Oh, it’s so complicated. Now throw scads of money and power into the mix, stir with a little revenge, and watch what happens in the new novel “Gone Too Far” by Angela Winters.
Organizers of Pittsburgh Fashion Week, an annual event that will debut this fall, have announced the selection of six icons of fashion, style, and beauty as the first inductees into the Pittsburgh fashion Hall of Fame. The honorees are: NAOMI SIMMS
Josh Milan plans on bringing the soul sound back into music with his artists on Honey Comb Music. “My artists will be partners in my record company,” said Milan, 41, who hails from Brooklyn, N.Y., but lives in the Poconos. “They will be involved in all aspects of the business. In this business, what you don’t know, they won’t tell you, so shame on the artist for not knowing. But I won’t do that to my artists.” JOSH MILAN
This week I visited Riverview Park on the North Side, Roland’s Seafood Grill in the Strip District, Club 21 in the Strip District, The Red Onion in the Hill District and Melange Bristo Bar in Downtown Pittsburgh. My first stop was at Riverview Park on the North Side where the Pittsburgh Ruff Ryders held their annual picnic with folks from the city of Pittsburgh in attendance. It was great to see all the bikers reunited and having a great time. Maximalist Sport Bike Ryders representin’ at Roland’s Seafood Grill in the Strip.
Dear Gwendolyn: I have been married for 18 years and my husband wants his mother to move in with us. She is 96 years old and in failing health. I don’t want to seem selfish, but I told my husband she needs to be in a nursing home facility. I cannot take care of another person. I provided health care to my mother, my aunt, my uncle and a neighborhood friend. I am all beat out. Do you think I am being unfair? I believe my husband will leave me if I don’t agree to his mother’s move-in.—Jeanette
Andre Jones and Jeromy Cherry are brothers from the Hill District, who along with NBA basketball star DeJuan Blair formed “Put On Productions.” Jones aka Chicken is 22 and his brother Cherry aka Young Meez is 20. These young men are making waves on the hip-hop scene in Pittsburgh and across the country. There music is a combination of conscious music with a mainstream appeal. Even though they have the production company together with Blair, they are solo artists. CHICKEN AND YOUNG MEEZ
As anticipation builds for the first-ever Pittsburgh Fashion Week Sept. 27 through Oct. 3, organizers are staging an open model call on Aug. 7 at The Mall at Robinson. The model search, expected to be the largest in the city’s history, is for men and women of all sizes at least 16 years of age. Hopefuls under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. MIYOSHI ANDERSON
