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[Lisa Bonner Entertainment Attorney, Legal and Entertainment Journalist and Commentator.] It was the Monday after the 2006 Grammy Awards, I picked up the phone and heard my otherwise laidback client YELLING into the phone before I could say “Hello.” “I can’t believe that MF came over here, shoving papers in my face, asking me to rearrange my deal! I told him to go f^%* himself and threw his ass out of my hotel room,” he said. You see, my client was among the last bastion of a

MUSIC MOGUL CLARENCE AVANT TO BE HONORED WITH STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME WHO: Honoree: Clarence Avant Emcee: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, President/CEO Leron Gubler Guest speakers: TBA WHAT Dedication of the 2,590th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Recording WHERE: 6363 Hollywood Boulevard WHEN: Friday, October 7, 2016 at 11:30 a.m. PDT Event will be live-streamed exclusively on www.walkoffame.com larence-avant-walkoffame-headshotThe Hollywo

[Marilyn A. Batchelor Entertainment Marketing Executive, Journalist and Claremont doctoral student in Cultural Studies.] “Negroes can never have impartial portraits at the hands of white artists. It seems to us next to impossible for white men to take likenesses of black men, without most grossly exaggerating their distinctive features...” Frederick Douglass While driving my teens in the car, I turn over the reins of music programmer to them as they navigate through the thous