Two days ago, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer shocked the World by showing just how little class and dignity she has when she greeted U.S. President Barack Obama on the tarmac at Phoenix International Airport. Brewer just had to tell Obama she wasn’t sorry for the way she portrayed a conversation they had at The White
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Herman Cain, who’s departure from the GOP Presidential Race was most unfortunate given that some of the sexual harassment claims he faced suddenly surfaced after his political star brightened, did today what was no surprise to this political observer: gave his endorsement to Newt Gingrich as the GOP nominee for President. It was no surprise
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Frankly, this blogger’s not sure what the value of these Occupy Oakland protests are, except as yet another viral video opportunity for protestors armed with cameras, camcorders, and camcorder-equipped smartphones. No, I wasn’t in on the action. Why the hell would I want to stand near police, many of which represent the City Of Oakland
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I happened upon an article in TIME Magazine about 42-year-old Pastor Rob Bell and the idea that Hell may not exist, while watching the Lakers v. Hornets NBA Playoff Game. (The kind of thing I do after a big Easter Sunday meal with my Mom and Godparents – have a mix of the entertaining and
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Your Ad Here The celebrity divorces just keep on coming, but this one came out of left field for most of us who thought that Seal and Heidi Klum had a perfectly healthy marriage. The duo has four children so that could ensue a potential battle. Klum had her first divorce from her stylist Ric
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Here are the first four parts that have been uploaded so far from Ron Paul’s speech January 27 in Bangor, Maine. Filmed on my flip cam:
Your Ad Here Last night CNN made the mistake of letting Wolf Blitzer moderate the debate. It goes much better when John King or Anderson Cooper moderate. Last night was the Mitt and Newt show. The two just bantered back and forth about personal problems, their finances and personal things between the two of them.
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Your Ad Here I woke up at 7 a.m. and went to the Brick Church in downtown Bangor, Maine with my boyfriend, roommate and some friends. There were over 200 people there (and some dogs as well). We watched as his wife and grand daughter sat down and then a huge applause and standing happened
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Olympic Skier Lindsey Vonn has done it again, this time winning the World Cup super-combined event today, Friday. According to the USA Today, Vonn extended her lead over second-place-finisher Tina Maze by 302 points. Vonn has been on a massive rampaging skiing tear since her announced divorce from husband Thomas Vonn. She has seven World
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This week is Oakland Restaurant Week, where a number of eateries around out town feature $30 dinner offerings – from reports, the participating places are “slammed.” For a good list of participating places, visit http://visitoakland.org/restaurantweek2012.cfm? Or just watch this video that someone with Visit Oakland managed to make with almost NO black folks in it.
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This is sad news for any fan of the shows Welcome Back Kotter and Cagney and Lacey: veteran actor Robert Hegyes passed away at the age of 60, and due to an apparent heart attack. He first hit the American Zeitgeist with his character Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein, a Puerto Rican-Jew, on
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This blogger, me, or Zennie Abraham, will be on The Tonya Hall Show yapping about my new favorite topic: Hollywood and Social Media. If you’ve never heard of The Tonya Hall Show, it’s a popular and fast-rising radio program exclusively devoted to social media. I’m losing count, but if memory serves, this will be my
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Jeff Fluhr’s a Bay Area entrepreneur and friend who is best known for his first big startup StubHub.com, of which my company Sports Business Simulations, was one of its first and best affiliates. Now, Mr. Fluhr’s launched another new startup that has promise: Spreecast.com. The idea of Spreecast.com is to promote video-based conversations between people.
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Oakland AC Transit Board Member Joel Young is in hot water again, as an Alameda County Superior Court Judge just granted a restraining order filed on Monday against him and by Oakland City Council Aide Jason Overman. All of this stems from an incident at Make Westing Bar at Telegraph and 18th Avenue in Oakland’s
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Even though E! decided not to pick up a second season of Pretty Wild Tess Taylor has still remained a pretty wild girl. As we can remember in the series which aired in 2010 – Alexis Neiers was part of the Bling Ring scandal and a lot of media coverage focused on that. Alexis went
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