I just came home from my Summer Bible Study Camp with my daughter. Tonight, we were asked three questions: What do you love? What do you need? and What do you want? My answers were pretty easy. It was a tie; I love watching movies and bowling. I need ...
Posted Friday, July 2nd 2010 at 11:32PM
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WDKX 103.9 FM Founder and Chief Executive Officer Andrew A. Langston Dies
My mom called me this weekend to ask me if I had heard the news about the passing of WDKX Founder and Owner Andrew A. Langston. I sadly told her that I had. ...
Posted Tuesday, June 15th 2010 at 11:16AM
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(QM's Note: I am sharing a piece with readers that I wrote for Gannett Newspapers's In My Own Words column. The column asks writers to share how they overcame an obstacle.)
I’m used to people not liking me because I’m black. I wasn’t prepared for ...
Posted Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 at 8:13AM
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Just call the late Lew Williams, the "Jackie Robinson" of his day. In 2009, Williams was inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame and was the first African-American to receive this honor. Former Rochester, New York resident and Williams's dau ...
Posted Tuesday, May 11th 2010 at 10:05AM
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To listen to 26-year-old photographer Christopher Cardwell talk about his passion for photography frankly is a heart-warming and wonderful surprise. "Photography is a game where your skills shine the longer you've been in the game ...
Posted Friday, May 7th 2010 at 6:08AM
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(Queen's Note: April is National Poetry Month. Mood Makers Books in Rochester, New York hosted its ninth annual Poetry On The Wall contest. I entered this poem and it not only was selected, but it won the Poem of Honor Award. The exhibit will be up u ...
Posted Thursday, April 29th 2010 at 10:06AM
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Reviews of Jitney Reading and Two Trains Running at Geva
The month of April should have been dubbed "August Wilson Month" at Geva Theatre. On Monday, I caught a free reading of Jitney and enjoyed every minute of it. Jitney tells the story of a c ...
Posted Thursday, April 29th 2010 at 10:01AM
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Robert Ricks's Where Are You Lord: A Grandmother's Prayer Opens May 1 at The Rochester Armory
Rochester playwright and author Robert Ricks's gospel music, Where Are You Lord: A Grandmother's Prayer, comes to the Rochester Ar ...
Posted Thursday, April 8th 2010 at 12:38PM
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Graphic illustration was not even a part of Denise Logan's future career plans, while a student at Greece Arcadia High School. "I got kicked out of my high school's art class," laughs the Hampton University mass media graduate an ...
Posted Monday, March 1st 2010 at 4:32PM
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The Story of Sleeping Beauty: A Contemporary Dance Experience, ended this week at RIT/NTID's Robert F. Panara Theatre. My daughters never BEG me to take them anywhere --twice. They did for Thomas Warfield's directed and non-tra ...
Posted Monday, February 15th 2010 at 8:11PM
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Happy Black History Month. This is the time of year, I hear people complain about it being too cold, the month of February being too short, and that there is nothing to do in the Frederick Douglass City. Nothing could be further from ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 10:46AM
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Filmmaker Cecil Felton and his wife, Kimberly have had a "calling". So to speak. For 10 years, their dream on paper has come to fruition. The Feltons have brought the concept of a Gospel House Network from the Public Access airways to the Internet. ...
Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 7:03PM
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The Monroe County Sting won its third USA Bowl 1-AAA National Championship in Homestead, Florida, with a come-from-behind win over the Kings Comets of Cincinnati, Ohio, 21-20. They are the first semi-professional football t ...
Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 6:45PM
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"I'm going to have a ball when I get to Rochester," says gospel singer Vickie Winans who will be performing at Rochester Institute of Technology's 2010 Gospelfest on Friday, February 5, at 7 p.m., in the Ingle Auditorium. "We're ...
Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 6:40PM
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Former Meterologist Richard McCullough can do more than tell today's forecast to change your life. He's changing the lives of thousands of individuals who are hard of hearing or hearing impaired. As the founder of MirusMedia and American Abilities T ...
Posted Tuesday, January 12th 2010 at 9:05AM
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In a child's eyes: Miss Sweet Potato Pie is a rock star. Since 1998, Children's Entertainer Dianne Snowden-Johnson has been wooing and delighting children with her antics, game playing, and singing as Miss Sweet Potato Pie. Although, ...
Posted Tuesday, January 5th 2010 at 9:36AM
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Welcome to a new decade. 2010. It's January 1st and we made it. Are you calling this new decade 20-10 or 2000 and 10? Do you even care? I'm new on this site, but I look forward to sharing my 411 blog with you. Happy to be here and even happier that w ...
Posted Friday, January 1st 2010 at 5:57PM
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