3/21/15 O&A Its Saturday Anything Goes: Patti LaBelle Live! One Night Only

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Patti LaBelle Live! One Night Only filmed and recorded at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom in 1998. The live album released in September 1998 earned LaBelle the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. Continue reading

3/7/15 O&A Its Saturday- Anything Goes: Music From Empire

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Empire, the fox musical drama television series, is breaking records every week. The hour-long family drama created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong and starring Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, centers around a Hip hop music and Entertainment company, Empire Enterprises. One undeniable aspect of the show’s success is the music. Fox’s senior VP of TV Music Geoff Bywayer said to expect the fictional musical world to collide with the real musical world; “We want to make the world of ‘Empire’ almost feel like a real music-breathing entity.”  Continue reading

2/28/15 O&A Its Saturday Anything Goes: Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at the Brooklyn Museum

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Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn,is an overview of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career featuring sixty paintings and sculptures. The works represent Wiley’s signature portraits of everyday men and women of color set in the style of the Old Masters. Wiley has replaced the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African-Americans from historical and cultural narratives. Continue reading

2/21/15 O&A Its Saturday: Pat Cleveland

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Pat Cleveland is a trailblazing international model.  One of the first black supermodels she rose to prominence in the 1970’s. Cleveland was a muse to the designers Halston and regularly opened his fashion shows. She also regularly appeared in the shows of Yves Saint Laurent and Stephen Burrows. Continue reading

2/14/15 O&A Its Saturday Anything Goes: Yves Saint Laurent

It is Saturday10311579Yves Saint Laurent is a 1992 documentary produced 10 years before the closure of Yves Saint Laurent haute couture. It provides the look at the life and career of the legendary designer. O & A salutes fashion week with a look at one of the industries most celebrated couturier.  Continue reading

1/30/15 O&A Its Saturday Anything Goes: Super Bowl Commercial Preview

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Tomorrow millions will be tuning in to the Super Bowl and the commercials will be the highlight between the action. Here are three ads that will definitely keep you entertained. Continue reading

1/24/15 O&A Its Saturday- Anything Goes: “Earned It” From Fifty Shades of Grey

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Earned It music video shows singer Abel Tesfaye enjoying quite an eyeful of Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson)  and several other scantily clad ladies. Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Wood directed the music video, and if it’s any bit indicative of what the movie will be like, fans can expect to see some serious skin. There are ladies with taped-up bums, X’s on their boobs and a multitude of other BDSM-style constraints sure to please the one and only Christian Grey. Continue reading

1/17/15 O&A Its Saturday- Anything Goes: Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show

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Janet Jackson performed a medley of hits at the 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. Jackson began with All for You, Rhythm Nation, and a brief excerpt of The Knowledge before surprise guest Timberlake appeared to perform a duet version of Justin Timberlake’s song Rock Your Body. The incident, sometimes referred to as Nipplegate was widely discussed, it also broke the record for Most Searched Event Over One Day. Continue reading

1/10/14 O&A Its Saturday- Anything Goes: Gaga By Gaultier- A Documentary

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Gaga by Gaultier is an interview between Lady Gaga and fashion designer, Jean Paul Gaultier, that was filmed at the House of Gaultier in Paris, France, on May 10, 2011. Before the night, Gaga traveled to France from the UK. She went to the House of Gaultier where Jean Paul Gaultier and his team work on his design. He did a visit of the building before doing the interview. Later on, the two did a photoshoot with Slam. It was produced by Dak Tirak Productions and delves into Gaga’s fashion choices, music, and personal life. The interview was released on June 13, 2011. Continue reading

2/13/16 (REPOST) O&A NYC ITS SATURDAY ANYTHING GOES: Naomi Campbell Supermodel

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Naomi Elaine Campbell, an English-born model, of African Jamaican descent and Chinese Jamaican ancestry through her paternal grandmother, who carried the family name Ming. Recruited at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognizable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and the 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion world. Continue reading