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On Saturday, Monica, Jamelle and I had the honor of seeing Gabriel Arana, their colleague at The American Prospect, marry his longtime partner, Michael Collis. It was a beautiful, elegant ceremony — and also fun as hell. Ideally, one of us would say something insightful and poignant here, but we’d be hard-pressed to match the Read More

This is winning the future. And everything else for that matter: Some background: Jorge’s story is maybe a little familiar. He’s young, 24, and has a six-year-old and a two-year-old daughter. It took him a while to find his way. He found love young. Calls the mother of his children an “amazing woman” and part Read More

LessGentleMen: You In Reverse from Wale O on Vimeo. This vid, by the hyper-talented Friend of the Blog AeonRND12 (the MC-beatmaker-photog-etc. who also created the theme to the PostBourgie podcast), features WaleO, himself a hyper-hyphenate (Afrobeat artist-attorney-best-dressed-man-in-America-finalist) engaging in reckless acts of public dandyism. Photos from the shoot here.

If you missed the BET Hip-Hop Awards last night, then you missed this. Which would be a shame: I don’t care what Shani says: Common has some skills. And Kanye really has gotten appreciably better as a MC.

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