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...father's church. Moss moved his wife and two children to Chicago, where he was to serve as an associate pastor at Trinity during the two-year transition. By most accounts, Moss quickly energized Trinity, particularly with his easy, unself-conscious references from the pulpit to both hip-hop culture and deep biblical scholarship. However, in an August 2007 Cleveland Plain Dealer article, Moss seemed to foreshadow his troubles in Trinity. The generation gap plaguing such institutions, Moss said, is "a gap of language, values. It's a gap in the best tactics on how to transform the black community...
...modern Australian Watermark, tel: (61-2) 9968 3433. To finish off the night I'd take a taxi to beachside Manly, take in the surf, sand and tall pine trees, and have a gelato at Gelatissimo, on Manly Wharf, tel: (61-2) 9976 6199. From there, I'd hop on a ferry back to Circular Quay and the city hotel precinct...
Terrance Dean, author of the new memoir Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry - from Music to Hollywood has had celebrity blogs in a mini-frenzy since Simon and Schuster announced last year that he would release a book dishing about closeted gays in the entertainment industry. The catch? The 10-year industry vet doesn't actually reveal names; he instead uses a slew of blind items recounting his run-ins - often intimate - with famous gay men hiding out in the film, television and music worlds. In a time when authors are being unmasked...
...hardly a straight path to the top. After struggling to get a response from several networks, the show first got traction on the Internet, where Nickelodeon execs noticed the secret ingredient that makes Yo Gabba Gabba! work: funk--lots of it. The songs are set to contagious hip-hop beats, and the animation is so retro it looks like a rave party for kids. "We have all the traditional elements, but they are repackaged in a contemporary way," says Jacobs...
...high school, I sold Gucci and LV outfitted shoes—sometimes to kids on my older brother’s basketball team, and sometimes to the suspected drug dealers living around the edges of Hyde Park. I had revenues in the five figures. I danced in a hip-hop group that performed at the Taste of Chicago, Chi-town’s infamous ghetto-fabulous carnival, and had stayed so true to my South Side roots that I rocked Timbs...even in the summertime.This past summer, on my first day of work as an intern at Men?...