Entertainment

Adventure Aquarium will celebrate the holiday season all month-long with events throughout the local Camden community and surrounding area as well as during its 7th annual Christmas Celebration featuring Scuba Santa, larger-than-life decorations and twinkling lights dispersed among 8,500 aquatic species.  Visitors are invited to get in the holiday spirit in a variety of ways,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Jazmine Sullivan   The City of Philadelphia announced this week that Grammy-nominated R&B artist Jazmine Sullivan will headline the City’s 2015 Tree Lighting Celebration at City Hall. The Philadelphia native will join a number of local acts for the ceremony inside the City Hall Courtyard on Thursday, December 3. The event is free…

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Jesse Williams, Harry Belafonte and Zendaya featured in celebration of the 2015 Power 100 List presented by Nationwide CHICAGO — EBONY® Magazine today released its 70th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Cover. The cover of the December/January issue boldly urges its readers to “Stand For Something”.  With a central focus on advocacy, audacity and the arts, the…

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By Mesfin Fekadu associated press NEW YORK — When Pharrell Williams signed up to perform at an all-star concert highlighting race relations in America, the multi-layered musician didn’t want to “have a kumbaya type-of-moment” onstage with his fellow performers, as he put it. “That’s not what these communities need. They don’t need another song, they…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Michael B. Jordan in Creed. Interview with Kam Williams Michael Bakari Jordan is considered one of Hollywood’s brightest young actors. He garnered critical acclaim for his sterling portrayal of Oscar Grant in Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, a searing account of a slaying by police officers on a San Francisco train platform. Produced by…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Mary J. Blige  (Photo:  Joe Seer / shutterstock.com) By Mesfin Fekadu associated press NEW YORK — R&B star Mary J. Blige is hoping she can offer love and support to those who “are sitting in their car in traffic about to jump out and kill somebody or kill themselves” with a positive and…

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By Sergio Shadow and Act When did it happen exactly? Was it the increasingly ridiculous and illogical story lines and plot twists? Or was it, as some claim, when the show just got “way too gay” for the general viewing audience? Or was it that sex scene with Gabourey Sidibe that caused so much discussion?…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Charlie Sheen  (Photo: Tinseltown / shutterstock) By Frazier Moore associated press NEW YORK — Former “Two and a Half Men” star Charlie Sheen has HIV. In an interview Tuesday on NBC’s “Today,” the 50-year-old actor said he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS about four years ago, but that, thanks to…

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Opening Nov. 25 From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema comes award-winning filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s  Creed. The film reunites Coogler with his star Fruitvale Station star  Michael B. Jordan as the son of Apollo Creed, and explores a new chapter in the Rocky story, starring Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone in his…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Marian Anderson Awards host Soledad O’Brien with honoree Wynton Marsalis and  Misty Copeland.  (Photo: Bill Z. Foster)   By Denise Clay “Excellence itself is a form of protest.” It was with that sentence that Wynton Marsalis ended his acceptance speech for the 2015 Marian Anderson Awards Tuesday night at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon…

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