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"The blog your favorite blogger reads...." Monday, July 06, 2009 New Music: Keke Palmer - "Super Jerkin" The more foward thinking of you out there are probably already well up on the West Coast-originated club music/dance trend of Jerkin'. If not, check the New Boyz track I posted recently for reference purposes.

When Jacques Bailly won the Scripps National Spelling Bee as a 14-year-old in 1980, his first reaction was relief.

John Frankenheimer's message movie is a sort of "West Side Story" without the singing and dancing juvenile delinquents.

Sometimes it's easy to forget that KeKe Palmer is just a kid. "I can't go anywhere with kids around," the 15-year-old says, referring to the excitability of her fan base.

An eleven-year-old black girl in the South L.A. ghetto braves the taunts of "freak" and "brainiac" to enter the Scripps National Spelling Bee and, on her first try, go clear through to the televised finals in Washington, D.C., where it all comes down to "logorrhea" and "pulchritude," two words to make even an average speller feel like a champ.

Having just finished watching all the March Madness games and marveling at the fact that all the players are younger than I am, I can't really figure out how both a father and a son could possibly play for one team simultaneously.

In a story from Variety , Doug Atchison will be directing The Throwback for Walden Pictures.

This weekend Dora the Explorer and her cousin Diego, Sid the Science Kid, WrestleMania celebrities and Nickelodeon star Keke Palmer will participate in the Houston Children's Festival downtown.

With all the horrible things that are going on in the world today, when I sit down to watch a movie, I'm not looking to see more of it.

Posted Mar 18th 2009 4:15PM by Wilson Morales Filed under: It's All Reel , Entertainment Playing in limited theaters on March 20 is this powerful film about a series of racist incidents on a campus that leads to surprising and insightful discoveries for the community.

"ER" star and Oscar nominee Angela Bassett will be in town April 28 to accept the 2009 Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Theatre School at DePaul University.

Angela Bassett As "ER" winds down, Angela Bassett already is lining up her next gig, one that will see her behind the camera.

Title: Akeelah & the Bee Starring: Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong Directed by: Doug Atchison Runtime: 112 minutes Genres: Drama Showing on M-Net on Sunday at 11a.m. ...

Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer and Keke Palmer, star of the network's hit tween comedy series, True Jackson, VP, were honored by the NAACP at the 40th NAACP Image Awards during the 40th Annual Awards ceremony ...

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies on network and cable television the week of Feb.

Actress Keke Palmer visited The Scholastic Store on Monday afternoon in New York City and read some stories from, ' Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True tales ' to her young fans.

Keke Palmer and Ron Butler in "True Jackson, VP" Keke Palmer A is already having one heck of a 2009.

The Who at the Isle of Wright - The Who' s 1970 concert at England's Isle of Wright Festival.

Although he's a San Francisco native who now lives in Los Angeles, Greg Proops has an international air about him - perhaps because he's performed live all over the world, from Paris to Turkey, Milan to New ...

It was a ''mutual admiration society'' get-together at the Kids' Inauguration Concert on Monday in Washington when actress and South Suburban native Keke Palmer finally met Michelle, Malia and Sasha Obama.