I couldn’t resist a look back at last weekend’s Gaypridefest in Los Angeles. West Hollywood is LA’s version of the Castro in San Fran. I might have been the straightest girl there, but the pridefest was too crazy for me to miss. I saw a cholo gangster couple, a guy with condoms around his nipples, [...]

Three fabulous movies I recommend renting during the long Memorial Day weekend. All three movies came out last fall during Oscar season, but with exception of Pan’s Labyrinth, none received much attention from the general public.
Breaking and Entering, directed by Anthony Minghella, portrays a London architect (Jude Law) who, dealing with a troubled marriage, [...]

When what you’re seeing and hearing is suddenly so bad, it’s bom chicka wahwah bad!

Hip-hop collaboration for love and Nikes. Plus graffiti. Of course it’s classic!

Edgar Metro is making movies. No sequels. No summer blockbusters. But, hey, he’s making movies!

“Like a senior in high school, I spend the last days of classes in an anxious boredom. Let’s get on with it already.
“I wonder if I’ll ever be able to live like a real adult in this town and move out of the hood into an apartment I call my own. No roommates. No [...]

My education cost me $150,000. So how come I just interviewed for (another) $10-an-hour job?

I just watched my Tivo’d version of The Daily Show from Tuesday night, and was amazed by Jon Stewart’s debating skills on the war in Iraq. He should really win a medal. Arguments between him and Sen. John McCain were hotter than an installment of Crossfire. I say Stewart for president! [...]

The LA Times did an interesting story on Tyler Perry in the Business section today. If you don’t know who Perry is, he’s responsible for the Madea franchise (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman”) and is on his way to becoming a mogul in entertainment. Recently, TBS bought 100 episodes of his new [...]

While controversy spilled over the airwaves Tuesday, a storm erupted at my own school, raising questions about the power of protest. Tuesday morning, members of the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation (SCALE) at the University of Southern California decided to take a drastic step in their seven-year campaign to get the university to stop doing [...]

Ever heard of the Westboro Baptist Church? It’s a small church in Topeka, Kan. whose mission is to spread the word throughout the world that “God Hates America.” This church was spearheaded by Pastor Fred Phelps (who actually looks like the devil himself). His basic, homophobic doctrine blames our country’s failed success [...]

It may not have been a good week in Washington or in Iraq (is it ever?), but this week has certainly been good for soul music fans. Here are four r&b artists that P+P thinks you could use to update your music library.
Amy Winehouse is a British jazz and soul singer who recently made [...]

Finally we’ll get to see a black princess in an animated film, something that would have been helpful to my self-esteem during my childhood ten or fifteen years ago. Disney is set to release The Frog Princess in 2009, the first 2-D animation film since big-ears released Home on the Range in 2004. [...]

So much effort is put into categorizing and analyzing hip-hop. Is underground better than mainstream hip-hop? Is gangsta rap teaching our youth violence and disrespect? Following from Byron Hurt’s documentary, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” which aired on PBS last week, CNN decided to do their own little special on the issue. The leading question [...]

Yesterday was a day of love for many, but for 13,000 employees of DaimlerChrysler Valentine’s Day was more like falling under the butcher’s knife. Chrysler announced Wednesday that it would cut 16% of its overall workforce, reduce shifts, and close plants due to declining sales of American trucks and SUVs.
But that’s not it. [...]