Especially for Women in Buffalo, New York

Kathy Skora

Happy birthday Kathy  Skora, the Middle Eastern dance diva of Buffalo. Read more about her dance company at Folkloric Productions .

Ever wanted to go out and about in town  to meet up with old friends, acquaintances or a group to just hang out have fun? Or there is an event around town, an art show, fashion show, a great movie, a performance somewhere–music, dance, theater, etc.,–and you just didn’t want to go alone ask a friend or simply someone in the group Girls Night Out interested in the same thing? Now there is a place called Girls Night Out in Facebook. Instead of the e-mail, Facebook or telephone conversation, lets actually go out and do something as a group or two or three depending on the event and interests of the members of the group. There maybe times when you purchased a ticket for some event unable to go and need to share it with someone interested  in going to the affair now you have a place to go—Girls Night Out. And for those of you who simply just want to go out sometimes, hang out and have fun with other women sharing your interest now there is a place–Girls Night Out. I just like to go out more often now want to get out and about and catch up with old friends old and new so I created Girls Night Out.

Melissa Brown (2nd back row left) and family

Happy birthday today, October 28, 2010 to the grand lady of entertainment and media organizing events, Melissa R. H. Brown seen here with her beautiful family.

Join Melissa at the Golden Nugget,  2046 Fillmore Avenue, Saturday, October 30 at 9 PM in an I Am Entertainment show for a good cause some of the proceeds to benefit the Colored Musicians Club and Stop the Violence Coalition. Groups appearing: Da’ Steppa Band, Total Exposure Band with Comedians and much more. For more information call 716 883-0397 .Wish Melissa a happy birthday.

Buffalo School Board should reinstate the attendance teachers laid-off in September 2005.

Attendance Teachers Elephants in the Room, Buffalo Public Schools

mother of Sherrie Morris

Also grandmother of Genelle Willis and mother of HER mother, Evelyn, who was named after my granduncle Ted’s wife, whom he met in Buffalo NY when he came here to establish his career as a jazz musician (in the early 1920’s). Got it?

Sunday (10/10/10, by the way) is my beloved grandmother’s 110th Birthday Anniversary! She was so wonderful and since we grew up in her house, she passed on so much history and values and love to us, before and after our mother died (when I was 12). Always warmth and a sense of security, is how

Genelle Beverly Ayres (1926-1963)

I remember things.

I love Julia Roberts, the Oscar-winning actress playing a leading role in “Eat, Pray, Love” a movie about a woman who after she married in an upper-class wedding later decides marriage is too stifling and she wants to travel. Sound familiar ladies?

Yes, the magical age is  the 30’s for women.  We start questioning our marriage,wondering why we ever got into one in the first place. In her quest to find herself while crisscrossing the world the movie focused on her trips to Italy, Indian and  Bali in Indonesia. And  she does her soul-searching in an ashram, a place for a spiritual retreat.

In this movie , Julia is  playing a female character in her early thirties, having the financial resources to escape her humdrum marriage to follow her dreams simply to  be a writer and write she did, the movie based on the memoirs of Elizabeth M. Gilbert published in  Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Viking, 2006).

The memoir was on the New York Times Best Seller list of non-fiction in the spring of 2006, and in October, 2008, after 88 weeks, the book was still on the list at number 2 according to Wikipedia.

Gilbert, a highly paid free-lance writer financed her travels through a publisher’s advance writing in the memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, “she had no job to quit because sampling Roman restaurants, Indian meditation centers and Indonesian oceanfront bars pretty much was her job.”

And I love her relationship in the movie with the Brazilian, a hot one ladies, but don’t expect to see steaming sex scenes on the screen though the characters engage in it. And Julia is looking good as ever though she needs a new hairdo .

The real Elizabeth Gilbert, writer of the book falls in love with and does marry a Brazilian  involved in the import and export business she met in her travels named José Nunez  she married in 2007. They run an antique store and live in Frenchtown, N.J.

The scenes  of Italy, India and Bali were just awesome, the best part of the movie since it really doesn’t  represent the Memoir  as good as the book. The music was nostalgic, show casing many  tunes  from the 1970s and eighties. Yet, one thumb up for the movie,  a must see at the North Park Theater on Hertel Avenue in  North Buffalo.

Corrie E. Allen, Social Networking Consulting, Textile Designer, Videographer

Mr. Alberto O. Cappas, President  and Mr. Miguel Montes co-founders of  Educational Pledge Partnership are embarking on a new venture to set up chapters of Pledges at colleges and universities and  announced they have recruited Ms.  Corrie E. Allen to help them in this new initiative, drawing upon her leadership skills as the former President of Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority.

Ms. Allen was graduated from the State University of New York  with a BS in Textile Design and pursuing an Individualized Master’s Degree program.  A former President of  the Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority at SUNY College at Buffalo, Ms. Allen served in many roles,  including its treasurer and attended the National conferences of the sorority where she honed her skills in the many facets of leadership and recruitment.

Also,  Corrie E. Allen has taken on the new role of a contributing videographer for Especially For Women in Buffalo New York, the Latin Journal Blog from the Barrio, the Buffalo Puerto Rican Press, the Insurgent Teacher, the Emmet Till Social Justice Blog ,the Buffalo Empire Star, and the Best International Eateries in Western New York, covering events, people and happenings in the New York City area.

Ms. Allen is the daughter of the late Buffalo News award-winning journalist  Carl R. Allen (1956-1999).  The Buffalo Association of Black Journalist established  the memorial Carl R. Allen Scholarship for  an aspiring minority journalist.

The place to be last night was  at Asbury  Hall at Babeville  on the corner of Delaware Avenue and Tupper  Street as the Buffalo Select Chorus (BSC) celebrated its 5th anniversary live before an enthusiastic audience of 200 on  May 26, 2010 at 7:30.

Linda Appleby, Director of the group and  Susan Mann Dolce  deserve accolades and kudos for creating a unique opportunity for young people to work together to develop their artistic and creative talents guided by local and national artists and musicians like  guest keyboard player Joseph Wooten.

Appleby and Mann Dolce  along with interested members of the community realized their dream to create a city-wide Buffalo Public High School Choral group in 2005.  BSC is unique because students audition, do a final concert and  opportunity to take part  in producing a professional recording used for applying to college.

Initially, the Foundation for Arts and Athletics in Buffalo picked up the proposal, sending out flyers and brochures to recruit interested singers to join, attracting  seven talented students from three Buffalo Public High Schools who gathered to rehearse weekly for six months.  Today,  the group gathers  every Monday at Asbury Hall at Babeville,  space the Righteous Babe foundation provided for rehearsals now the rehearsal home.

The BSC ,  provides Buffalo Public High School students , “an opportunity to develop their vocal skills and gain actual performance experience  guided by  certified music teachers and professional musicians,” producing a CD for college while encouraging school unity, and  participating in intra-system events.”

Zuri E. Appleby, bass player , Walter Kemp, keyboard, Tim Webb, percussion,  all performed in the program. Mary Stahl was the vocal coach and thirty Buffalo Public High School students participated  tonight.

A reception with the students and artists immediately followed the performance.