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Sister Souljah x Jada Pinkett Smith
Sister Souljah, the New York Times bestselling author of The Coldest Winter Ever and Midnight will appear live in an exclusive Livestream interview on Saturday, April 30 at 4:50pm PST/7:50 pm EST as part of the Atria Literary Salon Series. The interview, moderated by actress Jada Pinkett Smith, will be part of the Los Angeles Times Book Festival and held in Los Angeles on the LA Times Stage, to celebrate the release of Souljah’s latest novel Midnight and The Meaning Of Love, a story about young, deep love, the ways in which people across the world express their love, and the lengths that they will go to have it.
The livestream event will take place on Atria’s Facebook fan page: http://bit.ly/SouljahAtria. Autographed copies of Souljah’s latest novel along with Souljah’s other works will also be available for purchase on Facebook.Select questions from Facebook and Twitter will be answered live by Sister Souljah during the event. To participate, please tweet any questions you may have for Sister Souljah to @atriabooks using the hashtags #sistersouljah #atrialive, or post questions to Atria’s Facebook page.
Or you can Tweet @SouljahBooks
About Midnight and the Meaning of Love
Powerful and sensual, Midnight is an intelligent, fierce fighter and Ninjutsu-trained ninja warrior. He attracts attention wherever he goes but remains unmoved by it and focuses on protecting his mother and sister and regaining his family’s fortunes. When Midnight, a devout Muslim, takes sixteen-year-old Akemi from Japan as his wife, they look forward to building a life together, but their tumultuous teenage marriage is interrupted when Akemi is kidnapped and taken back to Japan by her own father, even though the marriage was consummated and well underway. Midnight must travel across three countries and numerous cultures in his attempt to defeat his opponent. Along this magnificent journey he meets people who change him forever, even as he changes them. He encounters temptations he never would have imagined and takes risks that many a lesser man would say no to, all for the women he loves and is sworn to protect. Midnight and the Meaning of Love by Sister Souljah was released by Atria Books on April 12th. For more information and to read an excerpt from the novel please visit: http://bit.ly/ebtfIX
About Sister Souljah
Sister Souljah is best known for her work as a political activist and educator of underclass urban youth. A graduate of Rutgers University, she is a beloved personality in her own community. She lives in New Jersey City with her husband and son.About Atria Literary Salon Series
This is the fourth installment of the Atria Literary Salon Series. The previous three celebrated authors were Lauren Weisberger, Nicolle Wallace and Jodi Picoult. Returning to the grand old tradition of places like the Algonquin Hotel where people would gather for stimulating conversation, Judith Curr, Executive Vice President and Publisher of Atria Books, launched the Literary Salon Series to bring together authors, editors and media for an evening of stimulating conversation and literary style.About Atria Books
Atria Books is the publishing home of many major bestselling authors including Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, T.D. Jakes, Shirley MacLaine, Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Weiner, Zane, and Rhonda Byrne, author of the international bestselling phenomens, The Secret and The Power. -
Music Eh! – PG Musiq
Check out her video for Lady with Kyauna Clarke I love them both….
PG was first introduced to me via the intimate and interative that Bella and I attended back in March. Since then, I have been trying to download everyone’s mixtape- especially this little pint size woman. PG is a bad chick, literally. She can rap like Nicki Minaj and sing like Alicia Keys. The girl is off the hook. (lol, and I don’t say that often).
Visit her WEBSITE
Follow Her @pgmusiq
Add her on Facebook
xo, Tanya
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Reminder: Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is May 8, 2011! Thanks to our friends at Agentry, here are some great gift ideas for mom.
First we have Milk & Honey Shoes, a fashion shoe site where customers can design their own footwear. It’s a full “design your own fashion shoes site” from flats to stilettos. You can make over 3 million designs with the offerings of heel heights, fabrications (leather, satin, silk, snakeskin, vegan materials) and accents. The shoes are high-quality and priced between $200 to $350 depending on heel height, fabrications, embellishments, etc. Milk & Honey offers gift certificates through their website so mom can finally find the perfect pair of shoes designed by the person that knows exactly what she wants – herself!
Tuleste Market jewelry and footwear present fun and playful collections of vintage-inspired pieces with modern sensibility. The designers are inspired by women of all ages and lifestyles and mostly by their love of making something old look not only new, but fresh and modern as well as accessible to all women. Harkening the heritage from the jewelry designs, the new footwear collection shares detailing such as metal plating and rosettes. Tuleste Market is a great way to buy mom a few fun statement pieces for her summer wardrobe that are contemporary and classic at the same time.
There is no one like mom! <3
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Hot For Hope
Ladies,
I think you all should get your tickets for this event. It’s for a great cause and I do think it will be an amazing event!!!
Shop Socials presents Hot For Hope, an opportunity to spa and shop in support of Japan.
Join us at Iyashi Bedrock Spa where we’ll try out the newest ancient Japanese treatment to hit North America at this one-of-a-kind spa on the Yonge & Eg strip.
$30 VIP tickets include:
*30 min. Ganbanyoku hot rock bathing therapy
*Complimentary refreshments
*Free beauty and skincare services
*Swag from our generous sponsors100% proceeds for the evening will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross.
To BUY your tickets visit: here
There is only 40 VIP tickets due to treatment capacity, however, participating area retailers will stay open for shop socialites to enjoy a mini shop crawl at I Heart Accessories and C’est Une Beaute.
Saturday is going to be a busy night!!
xo, Tanya
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Rain Cosmetics and Miss USA 2011
This year’s Miss USA Pageant will be on June 19th in Las Vegas. Today, Rain Cosmetics, a makeup line based out of Las Vegas, NV has been named the Official Cosmetics Sponsor the 60th annual pageant. Rain Cosmetics will debut its newest cosmetics line noted as “the sexiest makeup in the world” at the pageant and throughout the three week stay in Vegas. With its high definition and rich pigmentation, Rain Cosmetics was the perfect choice for such an event. The long wearing formulas will keep all 51 contestants looking perfect during the pageant. Used in Peepshow and many other Las Vegas shows, Rain Cosmetics goes hand in hand with the glamorous nightlife of Sin City! Check out Rain Cosmetics’ website and stay tuned for more info on their products! 🙂
xo, June 🙂
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“Everyone’s #&*$%3@ and They Don’t Even Know”
I love everything about this song… especially the line in this posting’s title! LOL! Every time it comes on its ‘azz on the floor’… dance, dance, dance! Mother Mother is a 5-piece Canadian indie band from BC, starting with the name Mother they released their debut self-titled album in 2005.
*”In the summer of 2006, the band opened for the Australian band, The Cat Empire, at the sold-out Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Soon after, the band began to gain even more national acclaim, and received a gig at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, which was Mother Mother’s first show in Eastern Canada. Afterwards, Mother Mother played a series of shows in Toronto, and later a full-page article about the band was featured in the Toronto Star. In October 2006, after playing a set at the Pop Montreal Festival, Mother Mother met with Last Gang Records (Metric, Death From Above 1979), and later signed a four album contract”.
I loved this song & only when I went to get info and blog about it did I find out they were Canadian! Love it!
*Quoted from wikipedia
