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By Kharisma McIlwaine On February 25, dance music enthusiasts embarked on the 4th annual Ultimate Disco Cruise.  The StarVista LIVE ultimate dance party at sea, which took place through March 2, was best described as one of a kind.  The Celebrity X Cruise ship departed from Miami and traveled to Key West and Cozumel, Mexico….

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ABOVE PHOTO: This image released by Netflix shows promotional art for “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage” a comedy special streaming live on March 4. (Netflix via AP) By Jake Coyle ASSOCIATED PRESS A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock finally gave his rebuttal in a forceful stand-up special, streamed…

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ABOVE PHOTO: “Bel-Air” star Jabari Banks chats with Andrea. (Photos by Nyamal Tutdeal) By Andrea Lawful Sanders The 54th annual NAACP image awards held in Los Angeles, California was one for the record books! The journey began with unseasonable weather that LA had not experienced for 50 years — record rainfall that led to flooding,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Harry Shum Jr., from left, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis pose in the press room with the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” at the 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A customer picks up food from Sweetie Pie’s owner Robbie Montgomery, second right, and Montgomery’s son, James “Tim” Norman, right, at the shop in St. Louis, on April 19, 2011. A St. Louis jury on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, convicted Norman, a former star of the reality TV show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s,”…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Wayne Shorter performs in the Zatarain’s / WWOZ Jazz Tent during the third day of the New Orleans Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans Sunday, April 24, 2016. (David Grunfeld/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP) Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Jonathan Majors poses for a portrait to promote the film “Magazine Dreams” at the Latinx House during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP, File) By Jake Coyle associated press NEW YORK — The order came before he arrived. French fries and a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This image released by MGM shows Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Creed in a scene from “Creed III.” (Eli Ade/MGM via AP) By Lindsey Bahr ASSOCIATED PRESS It must be a daunting prospect to pick up a franchise on the third movie. Add in the pressure of following filmmakers like Ryan Coogler and…

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ABOVE PHOTO: President Joe Biden speaks before the screening of the movie “Till” in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. The movie, “Till,” is the story of Mamie Till-Mobley who pursued justice after the lynching of her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, in 1955. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) By Darlene…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Gayle King. (Editorial credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com) ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX — “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King has been chosen to receive the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University. The honor is given every year by the university’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. King is…

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