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23 hrs ago | I-Newswire.com

Teen and Pre Teens to Experience Life Changing Summer At Weight Loss Camp

Summer Camp Addresses Youth Obesity with Summer Fun and Adventure This summer parents can keep kids physically active and mentally engaged by signing them up for Get Fit Weight Loss Day Camp.

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Related Topix: Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Kids, Home Gardening, Home, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition

Tuesday | BleacherReport

Johnathon Banks vs. Seth Mitchell: Fight Time, Date, Live Stream, TV Info, More

Seth "Mayhem" Mitchell must prove he's more than just another hulking football player- turned-boxer on Saturday night.

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Related Topix: Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment

Tuesday | RollingStone

Book Review: Questlove's 'Mo' Meta Blues'

Anyone who has followed the Roots' 20-year career has already soaked up so much of Questlove's writing in novella-length liner notes, message-board posts and endless tweets that the drummer-bandleader's new memoir hardly feels like his first book.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, New York, Culture Club, Pop/Rock, Music, Entertainment

Tuesday | Brooklynvegan

What's going on Tuesday? (Jim James w/ The Roots, Laurie Anderson,...

Jim James & The Roots @ Prospect Park My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James and hip hop renaissance men The Roots are teaming up for a collaborative set today for a Celebrate Brooklyn show at Prospect Park.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Myrtle Beach Online

Singer Macy Gray, saxophonist David Murray grow collaboration from The Roots

It might seem like an odd pairing - Grammy-winning R&B-and-dance singer Macy Gray and Grammy-winning saxophonist David Murray.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Pop/Rock, Macy Gray, Stevie Wonder, Soul, Entertainment

WLBT-TV Jackson

Top 10 Reasons To Celebrate The Fourth Of July In Philly

Add to that two major fireworks shows, more concerts, movie screenings and food-focused events -- all of which are free -- for a Visitors can book their hotel stay at visitphilly.com , where they'll find great rates and packages.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Dining

Sun Jun 16, 2013

The Washington Post

Karriem Riggins revives close ties between hip-hop and jazz

On Saturday night, the D.C. Jazz Festival offered a heartbreaking choice: One could see the Roots and experience incredible drummer and hip-hop/soul producer Questlove, or see the lesser-known, but equally talented, Karriem Riggins, a Detroit native who is also an immense drummer and producer.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, J Dilla, Erykah Badu, Soul, Common, Diana Krall, Jazz, Mulgrew Miller, Music, Entertainment

Sat Jun 15, 2013

WXPN-FM Philadelphia

Tonight's Concert Picks: Tin Bird Choir at Steel City, Cody ChesnuTT at World Cafe Live, Curly Castro / Dice Raw / Truck North at The Fire

Locals Tin Bird Choir bring their soulful folk sound to Steel City Coffeehouse in Phoenixville tonight.

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Related Topix: Phoenixville, PA, Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment

ContactMusic.com

Joey Badass Pushes Summer Knights 'Til July 1st 2013 And Touring Europe This Summer

Summer Knights was originally set to be released today, however, it has been pushed back to July 1st.

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Related Topix: Hard-Rock, Europe, Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, Albany, NY

Fri Jun 14, 2013

HipHopDx

[News] ?uestlove's Memoir Blasts 2 Chainz

Details about and excerpts from ?uestlove's forthcoming memoir, Mo' Meta Blues: The World According To Questlove , are discussed in a The Village Voice profile on Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, The Roots, Video Games, Cenega Publishing, Tannhauser Gate, New York, North Yorkshire County, England, World News, East Riding of Yorkshire County, England, United Kingdom

HipHopDx

[News] Former Roots Member Malik B Plans First Solo LP, Produced Entirely By Mr. Green

Now a member of The Beard Gang, Malik B teams up with Mr. Green to release his first full-length in a 20-plus year career of rapping.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Cenega Publishing, Tannhauser Gate, The Roots, Video Games, Philadelphia, PA

AllHipHop.com

Questlove Talks Career, Soulquarians, Firing Shots At Bad Boy & More In RBMA Lecture

Questlove sat down with Jeff Mao of Ego Trip for another installment of the Red Bull Music Academy lecture series.

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Related Topix: Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment

Phoenix New Times

DJ Jon Dread: '[I'm] a White Redhead Trying to Come Up in a Predominately Black Genre'

Ronnie Styles hasn't sported long-ass dreadlocks for years, but he's still just as big into reggae culture and Rastafarianism as during his kinky-haired days, if not moreso.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, The Wailers, Reggae, Arizona

Courier-Post

Truck North keeps nose to the hip-hop grindstone

Outside of maybe Austin, Brooklyn, and wherever the hell in the desert Bonnaroo is held, Philadelphia can legitimately lay claim as one of the hottest music cities in the country.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Will Smith

Thu Jun 13, 2013

The Morning Call

Singer Macy Gray, saxophonist David Murray grow collaboration from The Roots

It might seem like an odd pairing - Grammy-winning R&B-and-dance singer Macy Gray and Grammy-winning saxophonist David Murray.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Macy Gray, Pop/Rock, Stevie Wonder, Soul, Music, Entertainment

The George Towner

A Look of Whats Left : DC Jazz Festival

The DC Jazz Festival is roaring to a big close this weekend, with some big concerts still remaining on tap, including the Roots in Southwest.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Theater, Arts

The Washington Post

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Friday: Twenty-five years after their sophomore album, "Hangin' Tough," turned five boys from Boston into crush-worthy international pop stars, the New Kids on the Block are still capitalizing on a strange mix of lust and acid-washed nostalgia, never mind that their core audience is women now old enough to worry about mortgages and crow's feet.

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Related Topix: New Kids on the Block, Pop/Rock, Family, Kids, Boyz II Men, R-N-B, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, World News

The Winnipeg Free Press

There's something for everyone at this year's Jazz Festival

There are musical gems throughout the lineup of the Winnipeg International Jazz Festival; some right in your face on the mainstage, others in smaller venues, but all worth the effort to seek them out.

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Related Topix: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Jazz, Patricia Barber, Courtney Pine, New Orleans, Canada, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop

Roll Call

D.C. Jazz Festival Heads into Home Stretch

The annual D.C. Jazz Festival wraps up this weekend on Sunday, and there is still plenty of time to take in some great acts at Washington's biggest music event of the year, whether it be the Dana Leong Trio's "hi def Yo Yo Ma" mash-up style at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue tonight at 8 p.m.: or The Roots and their unique brand of hip-hop funk ... (more)

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Related Topix: Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment

Wed Jun 12, 2013

The Jersey Journal

Gov. Christie and Jimmy Fallon 'Slow Jam the News' on U.S. Senate race

TRENTON - On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Gov. Chris Christie appeared in one of the show's most popular segments - "Slow Jam the News" - to talk about the U.S. Senate race, 2016 presidential rumors and his weight.

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Related Topix: Chris Christie, US Governors, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Frank Lautenberg, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop