Brown Sista

The heat and humidity of summer make it necessary to stick to the basics. However, that doesn’t mean you have to go barefaced. Here, a few seasonally appropriate tips from Nikki Wright, a New York-based makeup artist, on how to get a more polished look while still keeping everything light.

For skin. Oil-free is key when it comes to hot-weather foundations: Try L’Oreal True Match Super-Blendable Makeup ($10; at drugstores), which comes in 24 shades so you can easily find one that blends in with your skin tone.
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“I got a mean idea, so look for it,” JD says about planned duet on Jackson’s 20 Years Old.
Earlier this month, Jermaine Dupri demonstrated he’s a true showman by bringing out Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson during his set at the Summer Jam radio festival in New Jersey. Now, Dupri is thinking about how to pull the ultimate trump card and get

In April, Carey hinted that she was very open to the collaboration (see “Mariah Down To Work With Janet; Eve’s Loss Is Busta’s Gain”). “He never talked to me about that, but if Jermaine has a concept, we should go and write something,” she told MTV Radio. “I love Janet. I’ve been a big fan of Janet since ‘Con-tro-ol!’ ”
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Jeffrey Wright has been described many ways: brilliant, underrated, an actor’s actor. But the description that seems most apt is scene-stealer. Whether he’s playing a Dominican drug kingpin in Shaft, the iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., in Boycott, or commanding a Tony Award for his turn as an acerbic gay nurse in Angels in America: Perestroika, you can’t take your eyes off him. That is, until his 4-year-old son tromps into the room, merrily singing a tune. The little boy (Wright prefers to keep his kids’ names private) has already learned a thing or two about grabbing the spotlight. “Give me a little space so I can have this conversation,” says Wright, 40, gently shooing his son for the third time. “Parenthood is a never-ending story. That’s my best role right now.”
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[tags]Shanice, Shanice Wilson[/tags]
Shanice Wilson was the little girl with a beautiful voice on Star Search that wooed music successful early career, Shanice took a sabbatical, but now she’s back with Every Woman Dreams. Some wonder why she left the music scene when she did. She addressed some of those questions and more in a recent interview.

Shelia Goss: Are you excited about your new CD “Every Woman Dreams”?
Shanice: Yes. I’m very excited. This is what I love to do. I took time off to spend time with my family, but it’s exciting to have both family and a career again.
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Janet Jackson’s recent US Weekly Magazine cover became the best selling issue of that publication ever.To celebrate, Ms Jackson stopped by US Magazine’s offices to celebrate.

Legendary songbird Janet Jackson (above with Us’s west coast senior editor Ian Drew) stopped by the Us Weekly offices in midtown Manhattan last night for a casual cocktail party celebrating her upcoming album, and recent best-selling Us cover. And while our editor doesn’t usually let us out of our veal pen, we were liberated long enough to raise a glass to the svelte, soft-spoken star. So we can tell you that Jackson is surprisingly shy, but graciously posed for pictures, greeted fans and even offered staffers encouragement on their own diets.
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Look for Meagan, Tyrese Gibson and Larenz Tate to star in the ghetto drama Waiste Deep hitting the silver screen June 23rd.In the meantime you can feast your eyes on the lovely Ms Goode now gracing the cover of Unleashed Magazine.

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DENVER — The 8th Wonder of the World, a leading entertainment company formed by Tantra and East West Entertainment, announced today that global superstar Kelly Rowland of platinum selling mega-group Destiny’s Child will be co-hosting as well as performing at the international concert series’ kickoff event in Agra, India using the Taj Mahal as a backdrop. Scheduled for April 12, 2006, the series will benefit numerous charities including YouthAIDS, Action India and UNICEF.
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Proving once again that nothing upsets America like a Black woman’s breast, The FCC upholds it’s silly little fines against Janet Jackson for her tittie slip.
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