Hottest “Oscar” Red Carpet Tonight at Stats Atlanta

Another fabulous reason to return to Stats Atlanta! The Women in Film and Television Atlanta will be hosting their annual Oscar Night Social & Viewing Party, making Stats the venue for the location. How cool is this, there will be a Red Carpet starting at 6:00 p.m. with the ceremony beginning at 8:00 p.m.

Stats offer HD screens throughout the bar, and patrons will be allowed to participate in WIFTA’s Oscar ballot competition. Entry ballots for the competition are $5 each.

Admission for this event is FREE, with food and drinks individually ticketed. Starting time is 6:00 p.m.

Location address: 300 Marietta St. N.W., Atlanta, Georgia

The Power of a Name - Trump Towers and Some Southern Hospitality

Atlanta is being viewed by marketers as the hottest luxury spot on the move. Even The Donald wants in and of course he is making his addition a major attraction. Trump selected Midtown Atlanta to put up his luxurious Trump Towers Atlanta, high-end condominiums.

What should we expect? Trump Towers Atlanta features and benefits are inline with Trump’s legacy of luxury. Beautiful architecture, features, and amenities representing pure luxury! Southern hospitality found in Atlanta, Georgia, a sweeping roofline and all-glass exterior of the Towers will add a beautiful addition to the Atlanta skyline.

Don’t overlook that there will be a variety of luxury retailers as well as destination restaurants. 360 residents featuring spacious balconies with dramatic views, 10-foot ceilings and hardwood flooring! Plus a 24-hour doorman and concierge service for ultimate luxury.

Does the Name Trump make you want to live here?

Fab Photos: Tyler Perry Takes After Party for “Madea Goes To Jail” to TAO in NYC

TAO in New York was the Atlanta HOT spot to be on Wednesday night. Tyler Perry did a special screening and premiere of his new movie “Madea Goes To Jail”. Check out the hot celebs! Keisha Knight Pulliam looked amazing.

Monica A Baby Phat Fan at New York Fashion Week

Worth The Wait, Murphy’s Still Atlanta’s Best Sunday Brunch Spot – Lulu Blue Sweets Is Divine

On any Sunday afternoon Murphy’s restaurant is Atlanta’s best spot for brunch and is worth the wait. On average the wait is at least about an hour. However, the food, ambience and service makes up for the wait.



Our little daughter Charm (3 years old) always goes for the butter biscuits and cranberry juice quickly delivered upon seating. Kyle, always orders a Bellini and coffee. I settle for some juice and bread. They have a great children’s menu with a good variety, too. Kyle is a fan of their waffles and often has the specials. I always opt for the eggs which are the BEST in Atlanta!



While waiting to be seated at Murphy’s we crossed over to Lulu Blue Sweets. OMG! The most divine cupcakes I have ever tasted. So fresh and sweet! It was our first visit and certainly we will go back to Lulu Blue.

James Madison Salon Best for Curly Hair, Adriene Hall a Miracle Worker

I want to specially thank stylist Adriene Hall of James Madison Salon on Peachtree Street. Our daughter Charm who we talk about ALL the time on this blog got a consultation from Adriene. Charm is three years old and has what is known as 3c and some parts 3b curly hair. Not easy to maintain!

Before we talked with Adriene we purchased possibly every product on the market. From Carol’s daughter (endorsed by Brad Pitt!) to you name it, we tried it. No real lasting success with anything until Adriene gave us the best hair regimen on the planet.

She recommended Curl Manifesto from Bumble and bumble. I never ever even heard of it or about it! They have different products and it takes a specialist like Adriene to help you put a good regimen together. Believe me this lady really knows her stuff. Our daughter is black and yes Adriene is white. The theory of only black stylist can maintain black hair is dead! In fact, we did speak with several black stylists before turning to Adriene.

First, what we learned from Adriene is that no one curly hair pattern is alike. We even received this instruction booklet from Bumble and bumble that explains curly hair in detail and has an emphasis on curl pride! I thought it was the most beautiful instructional material for curly hair I had ever read. It made me cry because this product gives little black girls a reason to celebrate their natural heritage.

It is time for Charm’s first trim so we will be making an appointment with Adriene soon. Beauty is breaking color boundaries, let’s celebrate.

Best Valentine’s Day Romantic Picks

Happy Valentine’s Day Atlanta! Here are my top picks for finding something romantic to do today. Enjoy, Love is a gift.

1. Fondue! The Melting Pot

2. Helicopter Tour – TheLavishStore.com

3. Chateau Elan Inn and Winery

Ciara and Other Atlanta A-List Attend Versace Phipps Plaza Opening Celebration

Phipps Plaza is about to offer something new from Versace. A special V.I.P event was hosted by Versace and InStyle Magazine on Friday night to celebrate the grand RE-Opening of the renovated Versace Boutique at Phipps Plaza.

The hot spot for the celebration was Mason Murer Fine Arts Gallery in Atlanta.

Fabulous Event: Smiley DA Crookit Letta Listening Party and Notorious Hip Hop Art Showcase Photos

It Factor Consultants hosted another fabulous event bringing out Atlanta’s A-List! They hosted a listening party at “255” Tapas Lounge for Smiley DA Crookit Letta featuring Notorious Hip Hop Art Showcase by artist Craig Henderson.

Is “255” Tapas Lounge the next HOT spot? Only It Factor decides that, we will see! Venues compete to be the location where It Factor will host an event.

The listening party and art showcase was organized to bring awareness for two charities.

Red Carpet Royalty, Inc - a non-profit organization that helps and creates awareness for women who suffer from hair loss. RCR provides non-surgical hair treatments for women suffering from alopecia, lupus, cancer and other conditions. RCR mission is to provide a comfortable, confidential and savvy salon services to women where hair loss is not a problem.

Dress For Success - a non-profit organization that promotes economically independence in disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and career developmental tools to help women thrive in work and life.

Atlanta’s A-List who came out includes two of the ladies “Renee Knorr and Monica Polo” from The Girlfriends of Atlanta, a new reality show that drops being housewives. The Girlfriends of Atlanta are ALL Sex in The City singles and like Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta the ladies can often be seen around Atlanta with Dwight Eubanks (a.k.a Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta other “Male” housewife). Who will be the hottest, Atlanta Housewives or Girlfriends of Atlanta? We will see!

It Factor really knows how to make a party fun by mixing interesting prominent people. Additional A-List people who came out were Hip Hop Artist Smiley DA Crookit Letta, Artist Craig Henderson, Representing Dress For Success Victoria Hook, Entertainment Attorney Leron E. Rogers, Syndicated DJ Taurus The Bull, Nationally Syndicated Columnist William G. McCray III, Representing Bacardi Brands Maureen Marx, Customblinds4You Sales and Marketing Director Tami Hall, The “It Models”, Interior Designers Tiffany and Trey Bullard, Makeup Artist Jen Litton, Grant Writer Sheree Holmes, Representing We Do Care Lucille Henry and tons more!

Of course some of the members from the Mosnar Media team from Mosnar Communications, Inc were in the house! CEO Kyle Ransom, Lead Publicist CR Cataunya Ransom, Media Buzz Specialist Schea Kelly from http://www.topatlantaluxury.com/ and one of our fabulous interns Whitney Hudson. We have two other interns Lara and Michelle they were not present but they are also fabulous!

A red carpet entry… Now this is how you rock style, hats off to It Factor Consultants. The photographs were taken by Richard Cole of Get Rich Photography, so Fab!

By CR, Vina, and Schea

Little Rudy A.K.A Keshia Knight Pulliam Talks about Madea Goes to Jail and the Future

It may be hard to believe it but little Rudy Huxtable from The Cosby Show is 29! However, Keshia Knight Pulliam who played Rudy is all grownup and loving life living in Atlanta. She is staring in the Tyler Perry film Madea Goes to Jail this month.

This month’s Los Angeles Times Sunday Conversation featured Keshia Knight Pulliam. Check out the interview from the Los Angeles Times:

So you went off to Spelman College in the late '90s and never left Atlanta?

That's pretty much what happened. Oh, my goodness, I'm telling my age. I think it was '97 [when] I entered school. I've always loved the city of Atlanta.

What is this Atlanta scene?

Everybody lives there!

I know, it's kind of crazy! It wasn't like that at first.

Is it like, everywhere you go, you run into Usher's wife and Sheree Whitfield from "Real Housewives"?

And then there's the Tyler Perry compound. Mmm hmm. He has an absolutely wonderful studio. It's the only thing like it probably in the South! It's huge. It's beautiful.

The one thing about Atlanta is you can have your little niche and do your own thing. But if you go to certain events you run into that whole contingent. It's changed a lot -- there's a lot more than the Waffle House.

Everyone always says he's like the nicest, sweetest guy in the world. That's so boring!

I mean, he is wonderful to work with, I must say. I think the thing I definitely appreciate -- he's wonderful and all this -- but the thing I'm most intrigued by and want to learn most is his great sense of business. He's turned this whole Tyler Perry thing into such a great brand, from pretty much nothing into this whole empire. Of course he's a nice guy and wonderful to work with, but he has a tremendous business mind.

White Hollywood is slowly catching up to that.Yeah. He's kind of come in out of nowhere and has kind of done it in a formula that's all his own. And you have to respect that. He had a vision and no matter how many naysayers, he made that happen -- no matter what color you are. At the end of the day, green is only one color.

Are you a single lady?

Um. I enjoy life every day!

Now that you've seen an empire like this from the inside, do you want to produce?

Oh, I definitely do. I started PullPenn Productions last year with a business partner. We're looking forward to the future and doing stuff that's out of the box, from going straight to Web on our website to a couple projects we're working on for television.

What are you looking to do?

To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas -- oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.

Is there room for innovation in reality?

think there is! There's always room for innovation everywhere. Things become a formula, you plug this crazy person in here and it becomes this train wreck. I don't think it has to be that.

It's gotten a little better, but for a while there was a really weird strain of African American reality show tropes.

In my opinion a lot of it isn't really reality -- it's a simulated reality. A lot has been done in the outrageous, sensationalized realm. I don't think it has to only be that.

Sure. This stuff came out of actual documentaries, which have rules.I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show "Taboo"?

I love it! So yes. It's like how your mom says: It's not what you say, it's how you say it.

So no less than Karl Rove has said that "The Cosby Show" was basically responsible for the Obamas. I was like, but the Huxtables were made up.

What the show did was show how much more we were alike. "The Cosby Show" -- no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have thought we would have an African American president. They would have laughed in your face.

How are your life savings doing?

You know, I must say, that is the most interesting way I've ever been asked about my bank account. It wasn't as offensive as most. Of course, we're in a recession, so everyone's thinking twice about spending and planning for the future. But I'm doing OK.

I'm not. I'm a mess.You sound like you shop too much. No, I mean, it's hard!

I fall back into it myself! A fabulous pair of shoes? I have to have willpower. But I'm working hard these days. So I can treat myself.

It Factor Consultants One-of-Kind Hip Hop Listening Party!

Smiley DA Crookit Letta Listening Bash Featuring Notorious Hip Hop Art Showcase
Rebirth of Hip Hop music and cultural listening party with art showcase benefiting awareness for charitable causes.

It Factor Consultants, LLC wants to bring back old school hip hop through music and arts cultural benefiting awareness for charity causes that help make disadvantaged women look and feel good. A listening party is planned for emerging Hip Hop artist Smiley DA Crookit Letta featuring the Notorious Hip Hop Art Showcase by artist Craig Henderson. The Rebirth of Hip Hop Listening Bash and Art Showcase will take place on February 9th, 2009 at “255” Tapas Lounge located at 255 Peters Street Atlanta, Georgia 30313 from 7:00 P.M. – 11:00 P.M.

www.myspace.com/smileydacrookitletta

Red Carpet Royalty, Inc is a non-profit organization that helps and creates awareness for women who suffer from hair loss. RCR provides non-surgical hair treatments for women suffering from alopecia, lupus, cancer and other conditions. RCR mission is to provide a comfortable, confidential and savvy salon services to women where hair loss is not a problem. Dress For Success is a non-profit organization that promotes economically independence in disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and career developmental tools to help women thrive in work and life.

Artist Craig Henderson’s Notorious Hip Hop Art Showcase is a reflection of advanced digital art using Giclee (pronounced ‘zgee-KLAY‘) a method of reproducing art through a printing process very similar to modern ink-jet printers. It has become a very popular method of creating limited edition fine art reproductions. The term derives from the French verb gicler, which means “to squirt”.

Rebirth of Hip Hop Listening Bash and Art Showcase sponsors include Brumfield Limousines, The Atlantan Magazine, Six Degrees of Atlanta, Bacardi, Prima Printing Indulgence, and The Jane Carter Solutions. Confirmed guests and media include Legendary Promoter Leonard Rowe (Michael Jackson’s Tour Promoter), Creative Director Nicole Houston (Fuzions Media, Inc), and http://WWW.TopAtlantaLuxury.com (Atlanta Luxury Blog).

Ladies of Radio Brewing: Porsche Foxx in Hot Mess Again, Elle Duncan vs. Rashan Ali?

Sorry to report that Radio personality Porsche Foxx has landed in a hot mess of fire yet again. This time it is a real fire! Porsche is wanted as a person of interest in a condo fire that is being investigated. Which there was a press conference held today and Foxx denied any involvement with the condo fire. In November of 2008 Foxx was again terminated from V103, which the station fired her in 2004 following a DUI and rehired her in 2007.

With Foxx gone the midday timeslot will become a battle zone. Elle Duncan has been removed as Ryan Cameron’s co-host to host her own SHOW at V103 to go up against another Ryan Cameron former co-host Rashan Ali over at HOT 107.9! All I can say is stay tuned and may the best Queen of radio win.