Archive for September, 2011

Re-building a Brand: Moving Beyond Disasters and seeing Opportunities

September 26, 2011 by Administrator

Re-building a Brand: Moving Beyond Disasters and seeing Opportunities

by Atim Annette Oton   Some people experience a disaster and it ends their businesses; I see it as an opportunity. So, in June of this year, when a fire destroyed our store, Calabar Imports on Washington Avenue. My business partner and I took time off – she traveled and I spent the summer in [...]

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Brooklyn’s Oyster Frenzy

September 26, 2011 by Administrator

Brooklyn's Oyster Frenzy

by Krystal DeVille Over the summer, I began my journey to find the best oysters in Brooklyn. I searched far and wide from my surrounding neighborhood of Crown Heights, across town into Bedford Stuyvesant, down to the docks of Sheepshead Bay and I ended up at Coney Island. During my restaurant “run” from happy hours [...]

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Join us for Afro Fest 2011 in Brooklyn

September 18, 2011 by Administrator

Join us for Afro Fest 2011 in Brooklyn

NY Afrobeat Festival, Inc.’s Afro Fest 2011 which celebrates African rhythms, roots culture and the United Nation’s designation of 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. New York Afro Fest will include an African Literary Conference, film screenings and performances featuring live African, African-American, Latino and Diaspora Sacred music, and more. The [...]

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Wired Perfectly. Beauloni Style: Designer Sherri Hobson Green

September 11, 2011 by Administrator

 Wired Perfectly. Beauloni Style: Designer Sherri Hobson Green

by Cassandra Bromfield I remember exactly when I met Sherri, it was in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where I grew up). Two blocks from my house, on Broadway, there was a fabric store, Sutter Fabrics. When I walked in the store there was a young lady who had such a familiar face. She looked like a high [...]

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The Lost and Found Generation

September 11, 2011 by Administrator

The Lost and Found Generation

by Ezinne Adibe In this so-called post-racial society and the era of the first “African-American” president Barack Obama, son of a Kenyan father and a white American mother, identity will continue to crop up even more, whether in coffee shop conversation, academia, online, and so forth. Additionally, race, ethnicity, and culture are not going to [...]

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CALABAR MODELS are REAL people

September 11, 2011 by Administrator

CALABAR MODELS are REAL people

Name: Tania Molina. Age: 30’s. Work: In Banking Culture: Garifuna. Lives: Crown Heights Food: Ethnic. Bar: NoBar Fashion: WOW WOW by Wunmi at Calabar Imports, Dumbo and Brooklyn Flea Photos: Fredrick V. Nielsen Photography, http://www. featherrock.smugmug.com

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the hotness list: what’s hot in brooklyn Fall 2011

September 11, 2011 by Administrator

the hotness list: what’s hot in brooklyn Fall 2011

food    Oysters drink    Witches Brew by nucomme business    Inkwell Deals person    Anthony Mackie book    A Belle in Brooklyn technology    Iphone 5 fashion item    Fedora music     Hurricane CD by Grace Jones bar    NoBar on Nostrand Avenue online     Huffington Post Black Voices broadway    Audra McDonald [...]

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Phoenix Rising: Our Rebirth and Change

September 11, 2011 by Administrator

Phoenix Rising: Our Rebirth and Change

It has been three months since I decided to re-launch this magazine in this compact form. In June, our store on Washington Avenue closed until December 2011 for renovation due to a fire and we opened one in Dumbo this September. For me, the loss represents opportunity, and a rebirth. The return of this publication to [...]

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