The Trove: Cheryl R. Riley & Courtney Sloane
An invitation and homage: Courtney Sloane & Cheryl R. Riley. Gotta love a woman who whips up a few baubles to wear on her opening night from the discards of “yesterday’s soup.” And so it is that...
View ArticleOi Yin’s Story
As we “say a little prayer” for Aretha Franklin, I ask that the family of Oi Yin Gonzalez and the countless families affected by cancer be lifted as well. As I viewed the marvelous orange display of...
View ArticleThe Trove: Nicole Landaw
Mover of Metal: Goldsmith & Jewelry Designer, Nicole Landaw. A few weeks ago, gloriously pregnant and furiously nesting, the lovely Nicole Landaw welcomed me for lunch at the Williamsburg home she...
View ArticleThe Trove: djassi daCosta johnson
Mrs. Verini: djassi daCosta johnson, 2 months pregnant. djassi daCosta johnson adores her “ridiculously amazing family.” It is in the haven of their embrace and the freedom of their trust that she’s...
View ArticleThe Trove: Reed Morano Walker
Shooting the Oscar-nominated, Sundance hit, “Frozen River.” The year 2008 was a busy one for cinematographer Reed Morano. In January the exquisitely shot Frozen River (starring Melissa Leo who scored...
View ArticleThe Trove: Anu Prestonia
Advancing the acceptance of natural beauty, the radiant hair care icon. So certain that their first-born child would be a boy, Barbra Jean and Preston Newsome awaited son Preston, Jr. When their Aries...
View ArticleThe Trove: Eisa Ulen Richardson & Ralph Richardson
On the Fundy Trail. On each other: “He is my rock…She is wonderful, loving, giving.” Capricorn hip-hop heads Eisa Nefertari Ulen and Ralph Richardson, Jr. lived parallel lives near to, yet unaware of...
View ArticleThe Trove: Marcia Jones
The artist at her recently opened exhibition, Live and in Stereo(type) Photo: Gantt Center. In 2009 visual artist Marcia Jones chose to inaugurate her brave and unabashedly personal blog, untitled...
View ArticleThe Trove: Erin Robinson
With schoolgirls in Banda Village, Rwanda. Erin Robinson loves summer thunderstorms and she got one as we chatted in her childhood home in Washington, DC over the July Fourth weekend, her sweeping...
View ArticleThe Trove: Lynda Johnson
Living lovely in Harlem. Lynda Johnson was born and raised in Syracuse, New York but her family’s roots are in Montgomery, Alabama and it shows in her Southern hospitality and colorful storytelling....
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