Year: 2013

Barack Obama is the 3rd best performing president for Wallstreet – in history. He best both president Bushes and Reagan. In fact the first African American president out shone all republican presidents. Digging into the data shows a man who lead his country through its second worst financial collapse with foresight and strength. He did

The biggest movie star in the world is getting ready to dominate the boxoffice again. Tom Cruise can’t take his slot and the king will rise again in 2013; the fresh prince is back. Will Smith released blockbuster after blockbuster every year starting in 1996 with Independence Day. Every summer Smith would drop a film,

Django Unchained is breaking all kinds of records. Since the film’s release in December, it’s grossed $152 million in North America and $321 million internationally. Jamie Foxx in a scene from Django Unchained. The movie is now Quentin Tarantino’s highest grossing film in North America, ahead of Inglorious Bastards. In the next few days, Django

Kerry Washington, while being interviewed by Glamour.com, spill the news that there may be a Django Unchained sequel in the works. According to her.. “There has been a little bit of talk about [a sequel],” Washington told GLAMOUR.com exclusively. “It’s more of a Quentin question, but there has been some kind of brainstorming, so we’ll

The film was a very bright spot for the female skewed genre, in an otherwise terrible year for such films. A lot of other traditional Romantic comedies failed miserably at the boxoffice. Even those with far more recognized casts than Think like a man’s. Starpower alone won’t sell films anymore, ask Tom Cruise Films like,

Gladys Knight’s Licence to kill was popular on radio and a hit on the charts, especially in the UK, were it cracked the top ten.  The positive reception to Licence to kill meant later Bond theme songs could test different styles or genres. This song was the first in the franchise’s history – at that

The Chevy volt is out selling its main competition, the Nissan Leaf, by more than 2 to 1. Chevrolet sold 23,461 units in 2012 alone, compared to Nissan’s 9,819 sales of its Leaf. There was a lot of pressure on Ed Welburn and the other Execs at GM to move more units of the Chevy

Microsoft is ready to kill its Windows messenger platform, used by more than 100 million users worldwide. The Messenger service will cease to exist after March 15. Microsoft sent out emails and alerts to the users registered with the Instant messenger service. The company said it would send out further updates more frequently as the

Garcelle Beauvais defies the normal aging process. The Haitian model/actress looks beautiful today as she did in 1994 as a young model at the Ford agency. After two marriages, three children a serious movie and TV portfolio to her credit, Garcelle’s still riding high. For evidence check her out in Denzel Washington’s double Oscar nominated

Apple recently announced an incredible milestone, more 40 billion downloads from their app store. It seems like only yesterday when the corporation had launched its other platform, iTunes. iTunes of course revolutionized music downloads at a time when illegal downloads ran rampant on the net. Steve Jobs, Apple’s departed oracle, forced the music industry to

Let us take a little time out from our daily lives and just appreciate all these beautiful, gorgeous and successful men and women the country of Haiti’s has given the world. They come from different segments of the Haitian Diaspora, business to politics. If the world thinks it’s given a lot to Haiti. Here what

Cameran Russell is a model. She poses for some of the top beauty magazines across the world and is quiet successful at it. Watch Cameron Russell’s TEDx 10 min speech She is now gaining wide fame from a different venue, that of the TEDx conferences. Ms Russell had given a speech to the conference about

Super group Destiny’s Child is set to make a small kind of comeback. Lead singer Beyonce posted an impromptu message on her Facebook page announcing a new track. It will be the group’s first new material in 8 years. The song will be part of a compilation album titled, Destiny’s Child – Love Songs. The

Denzel Washnington and Don Cheadle are at it again, this time there’s gold involved. Like wine and cheese, peanut butter and jelly so goes Denzel and Don. When they appear together on film the result as always is magical. The weird thing is high honors mainly to one or the other. Not both at the

Quvenzhané Walli, is now the youngest person to be nominated for an Oscar. She joins keisha castle-hughes nominated at 13 for wale rider, Jodie Foster, Anna Paquin, and Abigail Breslin all young nominees. Quvenzhané Walli is the young star of the low budget film, Beast of the Souther Wild. The film’s received a total of

Here is the full 2013 Oscars nominations list. Best picture Amour Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Best director Michael Haneke, Amour Ang Lee, Life of Pi David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the

The sexy 2013 Viper Srt is gonna set you back 98 grand; thank ms Halle Berry for that. While you’re at it, thank her for being the beautiful inspiration behind this car’s rebirth. When the markets crashed in 2008 many car brands started shedding their slow selling models. For Chrysler, that meant axing the beloved

Okay, so mankind is now faced with a truly mind blowing question that deserves an answer. Is Kerry Washington simply too hot to get an Oscar nomination or what? They are Nobel Laureates hard at work trying to figure this one out. This is a serious question. Think about it, she’s been the lead actress

Times magazine named the Iphone 5 Gadget of the year. The Williams sisters leaves their mark of approval by starring in new commercial for apple. The 30 second Tv spot brings together legendary sisters – and goddesses – Venus and Serana Williams in full tennis fatigue, head band and all. Minus the loud, delightful, grunts

Netflix is amazing and its ground breaking. If it creates a black movies category then it would be revolutionary. The service does carry an adequate – by some standards – catalog of black films. For example the all black version of Carmen starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte stands out in it their classical movies