BET.com Launches Its First Web Series 'BUPPIES' Starring Tatyana Ali on Tuesday November 24th Nov 19, 2009
Just this year, he and his producing partner, Aaliyah Williams, were highlighted as part of IndieWire's "Top 10 New Voices in Black Cinema." Their production company, Game Theory Films, produced the series along with Tatyana Ali and her sister Anastasia's production company HazraH Entertainment. Tatyana Ali serves as an Executive Producer of the series along with producers Aaliyah Williams and Anastasia Ali. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Barnes and Reed: The beginning of a beautiful friendship Nov 13, 2009
Aaliyah: At the time Pennington was hired, we was the toast of the law enforcement community and was heralded at the time as the chief who turned a corrupt NOPD around (see. We all later found out that the recognition was a bit premature, but AT THE TIME THE DECISION WAS MADE, Pennington seemed like a strong candidate. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
SUPER-PRODUCER TIMBALAND TO RELEASE TIMBALAND PRESENTS SHOCK VALUE II ON NOVEMBER 23RD, 2009, ON Mosley Music Group/Blackground Records/Interscope Records Oct 22, 2009
His production has helped create career-defining hits for artists such as Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, Destiny's Child, Madonna, Fall Out Boy, and Jay-Z, among many others. Respected beyond the genres of urban and hip-hop music, Timbaland, whose musical influences cross cultural lines, has also been sought by diverse superstars whose music similarly knows no boundaries, from pop star Justin Timberlake to avant-singer Bjork. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The New Black TV Guide Oct 16, 2009
This month, BET.com will premiere its first original Web series, Buppies, starring Tatyana Ali, directed by up-and-coming director Julian Breece and produced by Ali and newcomer Aaliyah Williams. No matter what kind of black show you had, nobody wanted it, Breece said of trying to pitch Buppies to the networks a few years ago. (Slate)
Top tomb hit Oct 15, 2009
George Harrison and Aaliyah ... Aaliyah (plane crash) ... It's George Harrison's My Sweet Lord taking the top slot from Aaliyah's More Than a Woman in 2002. (BBC News -- UK)
All aboard: Riding the rails to Eugene Oct 11, 2009
Henson, 3-year-old Aaliyah and 9-month-old Robert are heading to Redding, Calif. Aaliyah is having a great time as the train passes through a series of tunnels, screeching that she is scared, then saying she wants to go through another tunnel ... She says Aaliyah has been doing pretty well, and would recommend to other parents that 4 or 5 might be appropriate ages to take children on the train. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
POP CULTURE: Grid: 4 athletes' picks Sep 24, 2009
The Pop Culture Grid - Extra Mustard - SI.com. Pop Culture Meets Sports Culture on Extra Mustard. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Lynyrd Skynrd, R. Kelly add shows in Augusta Sep 12, 2009
Mr. Kelly is credited for discovering 15-year-old Aaliyah and recording her debut album, Age Ain't Nothing But a Number , in 1994. Since 2005 he released, in chapters, an extended form music video, Trapped In the Closet. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Top Entertainment Stories Trivia Quiz: Quick bites Sep 4, 2009
The Information you need. Thursday, September 03, 2009. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Vibe Magazine Folds Jul 1, 2009
Loss of 16-year-old magazine leaves marketplace without mainstream hip-hop/ Re. " A number of notable editors helmed VIBE over the years, including Alan Light, Emil Wilbekin, Mimi Valdes and current editor-in-chief Danyel Smith. (This reporter and MTV News Hip-Hop Editor Shaheem Reid both spent time on Vibe's staff as well.) "On behalf of the VIBE CONTENT staff, it is with great sadness, and with heads held high, that we leave the building today," Smith said in a statement. "We were assigning... (VHI.com -- Music News)
School sense - Teachers turn to rooms to calm or stimulate children Jun 3, 2009
Aaliyah Alexander, 9, immerses herself in part of the sensory room at Hollywood Park Elementary School in Hollywood, Fla. recently. (Missoulian, MT)
Story » May 29, 2009
The next night, 22-year-old singer Aaliyah died in a plane crash. Those two moments sent James into a deep introspection about his future. (ESPN -- Golf News)
Keri Hilson/The-Dream show blurs line between hip-hop and R & B May 28, 2009
Hilson interrupted her set the same way, going down her own memory lane with songs by SWV, TLC, and Aaliyah. They were hits from the mid-'90s, but after Tuesday night they somehow sounded like oldies but goodies. (Boston Globe)
Ethan and Chloe top baby names May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009. We've got everything in our. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
This Music Bytes May 12, 2009
At 23, Anita Blay's already referring to her youthful days, when she liked Brandy and Aaliyah. "R&B from an aesthetic or technical level is great," the Ghana-born singer says. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Spotted®: The focus is on you! May 2, 2009
COLBERT TOP STUDENTS: The following Colbert Elementary students were named students of the month for March: Kindergarten, Hailea Ayers, Anna Grace Cowart, Tiffany Caudell, Carter Guest and Kourtnee Watson; 1st grade, Natalie LaFlam, Kaitlyn Turner, Cody Horne, Jake Baxter and Susie Wiskow; 2nd grade, Macy Vickers, Brittany Ayers, Kaylee Ray, Zeke Johnson and Isaiah Freeman; 3rd grade, Hayley Horne, Zac Patton, Josh Tyner, Nykolas Murray, Ma-lek Pass, Nat Smith and Aaliyah Hall; 4th grade,... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Ipod Shuffle: Max Drummey Mar 20, 2009
"Try Again," Aaliyah 4. "A Morte do Sonic," Buraka Som Sistema 5. (Boston Globe)
Video From Notorious B.I.G.'s Final Party Hits Web Mar 20, 2009
Vibe Awards afterparty was also featured in a scene from the Biggie biopic 'Notorious (VHI.com -- Music News)
It's been a while, but Rezza is back Mar 11, 2009
Rezza has two daughters Zahwa and Aaliyah with actor Adjie Massaid; the couple got divorced in 2006. - JP. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
With all due respect Feb 25, 2009
These might sound like trivial anecdotes but casting such Asian characters in high-profile American shows would have been inconceivable just a few years ago, when Chow Yun-fat never got to kiss Mira Sorvino in "Replacement Killers" and Jet Li's kiss with Aaliyah was edited out of "Romeo Must Die". "The rise of the Asian economies, including China's, is making American people more interested in the region and compelling TV and film makers to do wider and deeper research," says Yan Luo, the... (Xinhuanet, China)
Seacoast Pop Culture Feb 8, 2009
Entertainment you don't have to feel too guilty for caring about (since we care too). Did we hurt Kate Winslet's feelings. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
