"The We B*Girlz Festival is a multimedia Festival by women for women celebrating the 4 elements of Hip Hop and more. We B*Girlz wants to present a strong role model for adolescent girls. We B*Girlz Productionz wants to show that women mastered skills in all aspects of Hip Hop and have earned a place in Hip Hop history. We will celebrate their creativity with a one month festival in August 2008 in Berlin."
"Our intention is to provide a platform for girls and young women from different nations and cultural backgrounds to make contacts, exchange ideas, and support each other. We want to teach them new skills, strengthen their confidence and show them the accomplishments of women in all aspects of Hip Hop culture. Within 4 weeks in August 2008, the We B*Girlz Festival will provide the girls with tools to be creative in the different aspects of Hip Hop culture, and will also teach them how to document their own culture through workshops in video editing, photography, and web design etc. "
"During the 4 weeks in August, we will not only have lots of workshops, but also exhibitions, concerts, club nights, a filmfestival etc. We will produce a compilation with female artists, a magazine and a DVD. The event series will close with a big festival with battles, shows and a concert on the last weekend in August. We hope to see y’all in Berlin! Peace out! We B*Girl"
Here’s one more from the premiere. This time it’s La Diabla on the left and fashion genius Ms. Patricia Field (who I embarrassingly confused with Vivienne Westwood last week!!).
See how Anna’s image is light and Pat’s is dark? That just shows you how things aren’t always as they seem!
Sneaker Freaker Magazine is in my opinion one of the Best magazines out there dedicated to all things Sneaker related ,this week the whole Online mag is devoted to women in the sneaker/streetculture world!
BlackGirlintheCity is a site you visit when you’ve done all the pretty pictures and you find yourself hankering for something a little more substantial. Words that’ll actually make you think, ya know??
I linked to her hysterical recount of an encounter with a Marc-Jacobs-bag-owning idiot not long ago, but the story I’m linking to here is a little different. In it, she talks about shedding an ex. Like any good writer, she writes in layers and while she reveals what she believes are her own lessons, there’s plenty of space between the lines for us to draw our OWN conclusions.
Here’s an excerpt:
My ex has finally decided to move on. Good for effing him! Lol. We were the best of friends with a strong history until true feelings got involved. Its funny how people tend to be on their worse behavior when falling or being in love.
^^Dear BlackGirl: He so aint over you!
And as for her comment on Hillary, she said it, not me! And though I gave up using the word bitch as a 2008 resolution, I hafta admit Hill is pushing me to the damn edge!
Over at Ultimate-Rihanna there are new scans of RhiRhi from her Afro magazine (sorry, couldn’t find the link) cover story. Within the story, she’s wearing a dress that’s stupid amazing. I hope whoever is hooking RhiRhi up with her fashion is being well compensated ’cause she deserves it for doing such a great job of setting this young woman so far apart from the pack just via her clothing choices alone. Not that I think RhiRhi is totally being constructed from the outside, but how she’s being dressed is not small part of her image.
A few posts back, I highlighted a Complex fashion editorial that featured Tampa Bay Rays center fielder B.J. Upton and his brother Justin, who plays for Arizona. I mentioned that given what a hottie B.J. was, I’d be looking forward to watching the Rays compete against the Yankees.
^^Good looks rating currently in jeopardy
Well last night the Yankees played the Rays and at first it was great because the Bombers were crushing the Rays, but then things started turning and damned if B.J. didn’t help tie up the game with a home run shot in the 7th!
So I’m thinking, maybe he’s not so cute, after all!!
Madonna is on the cover of May’s Elle magazine looking her usual hot and charismatic self, qualities brought to the forefront by Tom Munro’s outstanding photography.
As far as Ms. Ciccone-Ritchie is concered, I have this theory that the more nicknames a person has, the more legendary. In the case of Madonna we have: Boy Toy, Madge, Daisy, Mo, Material Girl, Esther. etc.
I rest my case.
Here’s a taste of the shoot:
^^She’s wearing a silk/cashmere sweater by Halston; a patent vinyl bra by Deborah Marquit and those ultra-sick boots? Why Miu Miu of course!
And on another note, but still speaking of Elle magazine, by now I take it you know that Nina Garcia is out from her job as fashion director as Elle. I know there’s a lot of speculation about what happened, but I’m thinking they gave her the shove ’cause she just didn’t have time with all her other Fashion Runway obligations to do her job right! All that gossip being said, the very latest update from MediaBistro is that she’s still in talks with Elle to keep up some sort of mutually beneficial connection.
Late-breaking update: I am so on it! I was just reading this snippet on PerezHilton:
“She became too busy with Project Runway the last year to two,” a mag insider tells us. “Nina had been spending about 8 hours a week on average actually in the office and working, and had her 2 assistants doing all of her work for her.”
By featuring two up-and-coming baseball playing brothers in its newest issue, Complex magazine was probably just trying a fresh take on the usual sickly-looking male models, but in the process they also gave their gay and female readers some nice eye candy to drool over.
The story features both B.J. Upton, who plays centerfield for Tampa Bay and is currently batting–eke!–just over .200, and his younber brother Justin, who plays second base for the Diamondbacks and is batting–wow!–.382. Justin may have the better bat, but it’s his older brother B.J. who’s got it going on in the looks department. Take a look-see at a couple of images from the Complex shoot (more at the link above):
The extra nice part for me is that I actually like, ney LOVE baseball. And as a female, being a fan comes with the added benefit of being able to do some man watching while watching games. However, because the men who play the game are often goody-two shoe, flavor-lacking jock types, the pickings are slimmer than you might think. Good to see there will be someone to look out for next time the Bombers take on Tampa Bay!
