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You saw the fantastic Super Bowl game; and you know by now even if you fell asleep that the NY Giants are the World Champions of Football, but maybe you took a break and missed a commercial or two, so if you did here are a list of the top 10 best commercials for this […]
Elite and Eli. One and the same. And now there are two Super Bowl championships and two MVPs to prove it. Eli Manning is the big man in the NFL after one-upping Tom Brady and leading the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl – in […]
ST. LOUIS — Singer David Peaston, who had a string of R&B hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has died, his family said Thursday. Peaston, 54, died Wednesday of complications from diabetes, his niece, Neuka Mitchell said. Peaston was born into a St. Louis family with deep musical roots. His mother, gospel singer […]
The first time Bell junior Diana Castillo told her friends she was leaving class a little early for bowling practice, they responded with puzzled looks: What? There’s a bowling team? “People question if it’s even a sport sometimes,” Castillo said. For D.C. Public Schools this winter, however, bowling is a varsity sport for the first […]
Today he’s just a D.C. bureaucrat, but come Super Bowl Sunday, David Johnson will be Pizza Hut’s last, best hope to sling pies before kick-off. The chain held a contest challenging customers to come up with a catchy new jingle. Johnson, 31, a switchboard operator for the Department of Defense, penned a 30-second tune praising […]
A judge ordered that former NBA star Allen Iverson’s (watch his highlights) bank account be garnished in order to pay more than $850,000 to a jeweler (where?). The store initially sued Iverson in 2010 for not paying a $375,000 bill (why was he sued for $2.5M?). After he reportedly did not respond, an order was […]
There was no way Angelo Dundee was going to miss Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday party. Muhammad Ali certainly was, but so too was the man who trained him. Journey through the career of Angelo Dundee in pictures. The genial trainer got to see his old friend, and reminisce about good times. It was almost as […]
Don Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV dance show “Soul Train,” is dead at 75 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police responding to a report of a shooting found Cornelius at his Sherman Oaks, Calif., home around 4 a.m. He was pronounced dead about an hour later at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to the coroner’s […]
Washington, DC – Whitman-Walker Health will observe National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on Tuesday, Feb. 7, with free HIV testing through our mobile testing unit at the Anacostia Metro station from 11:00 am-1:00 pm.
Top Gospel Albums — Congratulations to James Fortune & FIYA, whose new release Identity, debuts atop the Billboard Top Gospel Charts. The album also enters at #1 on the Independent Charts, #17 on the Digital Albums Charts, and #7 on the Billboard Top 200 Charts, marking the highest chart debut ever for the group. The […]