Musings From My Minivan
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Here’s a story about the South Side of Chicago that you probably haven’t heard about mainly because it doesn’t contain any of the three G’s, “Guns” “Gangs” and the “Ghetto”. No, this is a story about a beautiful, young, African-American girl who has risen to a level of success that is noteworthy on a National level. Her name is Eva Lewis. 
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Travel home to Chinatown from school is about to get a bit more complicated for my eldest children. On May 19th the Dan Ryan Branch of the Red Line, from Cermak Chinatown to 95th Street, will shut down for five months to undergo a $425 million dollar renovation. And I mean closed, as in no South Red Line rail service at all. [Read more...]
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I had the pleasure of attending a screening of the new Gatsby movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio thanks to my friend Patrice, aka Afrobella, and the great people at Jet Magazine. As an actor, I have a great deal of respect for Leo DiCaprio so I was looking forward to seeing what he would do with this iconic literary role. Let me tell you, he did not disappoint. His blue eyes, enhanced like he was in an old film colorized for a new day. And he himself felt like a Cary Grant or Clark Gable, smoldering Hollywood. It was spectacular. Perhaps too spectacular though, because the rest of the cast was never able to reach the bar that DiCaprio set. [Read more...]
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I can’t believe that I have been performing Miss Lori’s CAMPUS concert tours for WTTW PBS Kids for six years. It feels like yesterday when Mister Brandon and I performed our first Great Food Fan Van performance together at a Sunset Foods. Now 100′s of shows later here we are embarking on our sixth season of free live productions for the Chicagoland area, and I couldn’t be more proud. [Read more...]
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Do you know what you get when a bunch of super intelligent, highly capable, incredibly social moms come together to talk parenting, nutrition, guilt and options? You get a darn good time! I was very honored to serve as the hostess of the Moms nutrition panel at recent McDonald’s Workshop where we engaged in an open dialog about parenting with real moms of real kids. [Read more...]
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