Funeral Services Announced for Music Legend Butter Ball

IT's So Hard To Say Good Bye To Yesterday!

Funeral services are set for Thursday August 2nd for Butterball. He passed away on Friday at the age of 70. Services are happening Thursday August 2nd at The Cathedral Basilica, St Peter and Paul 18th and Ben Franklin Parkway. services start at 10am. this will be a Catholic Mass. in Lieu of Flowers the family is asking that donations be made to the American Diabetes Foundation in his name.
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Full Force's Tribute To Sherman Hemsley (The Jefferson's)

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The Music and Entertainment Report Remembers Joe BUTTER BALL Tamburro

One Of The Best To Ever Touch a Microphone

Joe Butter Ball Tamburro
passes today Friday July 28th, 2012

For more information at this time please visit the website
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We will have more information and personal tributes as soon as possible.

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Drive Your Dreams at BMW of Atlantic City

Meet Celebrity Fashion Consultant

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6:30pm

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Driving your Dreams with BMW and Celebrity Stylist Gina La Morte.

Join Celebrity Fashion Stylist and Dreamer, Gina La Morte, for a fun night out filled with style, dreams and automobiles. Gina will host an exciting workshop based on her upcoming book "Discovering your Dreams" and will talk on how you can achieve your own dreams, and how to drive into your destiny. There will also be a fashion presentation about the latest styles for Fall and how wearing the right fashion can help you in your personal brand... to help your dreams come true! It will be a fun night of mixing and mingling with Atlantic City's best.

Experience the latest dream cars from BMW and meet with Atlantic City's premiere Networking Expert, Whitney Ullman.
Wine and Cheese will be served. BMW will be offering a free car wash to each guest.

This exciting event is being hosted by Atlantic City's Go to Gal, Whitney Ullman. Dedicated to her community and utilizing her strong system of connections, Whitney started GoToWhitney.com, a company that helps forge relationships between people and businesses that provides services ranging from entertainment to public relations. Born in Atlantic City and involved in many area organizations, Whitney is dubbed as a “Networking Expert”. Her media work can be found on the radio, television, and various publications in the Atlantic City area and beyond.

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Gina Talks about her resume and why she wants to motivate you!

I’m a Dreamer, Doer, Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Fashionista, Beauty-babe, Spiritualist, Nature-lover, and mommy of two!

For the past 15 years I have worked as a Celebrity Fashion Stylist, Style Expert and Editor-in-Chief and Publisher for some of the nation’s most popular magazines and fashion clients. My extensive background in fashion and style includes working in New York, Los Angeles and around the USA, speaking, directing, producing and styling fashion for live events, magazines, television, & radio.

Today, this valued experience has brought me to my life’s work as a Speaker & Author on Discovering your Dreams. In my latest book, Discovering Your Dreams, I speak and write about helping you discover your destiny, and share my priceless wisdom about the journey it takes to get to your DREAMS.
Throughout my fashion career, my passion and purpose has been inspiring others, teaching & equipping them practical steps on how to live out their dreams and see them come to pass.

My work has been seen by millions on national television shows including; Bravo, ABC’s The View, MTV, NBC, Fashion Contributor to CBS “This Morning” in NY, FOX morning, CW11 morning, ABC morning, KTLA, One on One with Steve Adubato and more.

As a Celebrity Stylist, I cover celebrity fashion trends and speak live on stage for magazines including O- The OPRAH magazine, PEOPLE magazine, PEOPLE STYLEWATCH, MORE, Conde Nast Traveler and W magazine. My clients have included luxury retailers Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Macy’s NYC, Lord & Taylor NYC, The Mall at Short Hills, Hilton Hotels & Spas Worldwide.

I have had the privilege of walking the red carpet at both the ACADEMY AWARDS and the EMMY’s, covering celebrity style trends.

My expertise has been featured in hundreds of articles in O-The Oprah Magazine, People magazine, People StyleWatch, MORE magazine, Associated Press, USA Today, AOL, Life & Style magazine, OK! magazine, Fitness magazine, Yahoo, Women’s World, Joan Hamburg, The Los Angeles Times and others. I also co-hosted a radio show on WOR with Steve Boorstein, The Clothing Doctor.

Most recently, I was Editor/Publisher of fashion’s #1 award-winning socially and environmentally conscious magazine, Boho. Boho was sold throughout the USA and in 37 other countries in stores like Barnes & Noble, Whole Foods, Target, Duane Reade, CVS and food markets and drugstores nationwide. Boho was a 2-time award-winning publication, receiving both the AVEDA award and the SUSTAINPRINT award as New Magazine of the Year for it’s commitment to sustainability and stylish approach to being green.

Giving back is passionate part of my life and supporting non-for-profits through fashion, beauty and sustainability has been a thread throughout my career. I have worked with some charities including Susan G. Komen, Jersey Battered Women’s Shelter, Integrity House, The Valerie Fund, Surfrider Foundation and others.

I have worked in conjunction with celebrities and designers including; Katy Perry, Nigel Barker, Heidi Klum, Seal, Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey, Mario Lopez, Vanessa Manilo, Calvin Klein, Narciso Rodriquez, Zac Posen, Michael Kors, Zang Toi, Carmen Marc Valvo, Missy Elliot, Usher, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Buddy Valastro of Cake Boss, Bethenny Frankel.

I am a proud graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. I studied International Marketing & Trade in Paris, London, Milan and Venice. I spent time in the couture house of Yves St. Laurent, learned from legends like Gianni Versace and Vidal Sassoon, and had behind the scenes fashion experience with designers like Michael Kors, Randolph Duke, Anna Sui and Calvin Klein.

Today my desire is to help you live out your dreams. I have had the blessing and honor of seeing many of dreams come to pass, and I want to help you discover yours!

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The George Jefferson Effect By Raymond Tyler

Remembering Sherman Hemsley

...or Mr. Jefferson To You and I!
Words By Raymond Tyler

Sherman Alexander Hemsley

February 1, 1938 – July 24, 2012

The world lost an under appreciated veteran actor yesterday July 24th, 2012 when Sherman Hemsley passed away.

However the iconic character of George Jefferson, will forever inspire people of all races, colors and genders to MOVE ON UP. 

As a kid growing up in the 1970's it was easy for me to write off the character of George Jefferson as merely an antagonist for Archie Bunker. There was a time before I worked for a living I viewed George as a short motor mouth armed with little more than a blistering array of "Whitey's" and "Honkey's"

 As I moved into my teen age year however, I began to admire Hemsley's brilliance as an actor and the writers who made George Jefferson one of the most complex black men we have ever seen on TV.

I am sure that even today you would be able to find real people with thriving businesses who could point to the story that Hemsley and The Jefferson's brought to the 1970's and 80's TV.

I know I was inspired by Jefferson's move from the poverty of being a share croppers' son, then opening a small dry cleaning business in Harlem, eventually moving his family to the middle class where we first meet The Jefferson's as neighbors of The Bunkers on the show ALL IN THE FAMILY. Ultimately Jefferson was able to open several stores in most of the five burroughs and gain wealth for himself and his family.

Hemsley's Jefferson is the only Black man on television who we saw make those moves in class. Likewise, he can be credited as a fore-runner of  Bill Cosby's "Dr. Huxtable" and James Avery's "Uncle Phillip Banks."  Although in the case of Phillip Banks we were able to tune in as he moved from a lawyer to a judge.

 George Jefferson was most complex  as a character when trying to fit in the world of wealth. His charachter never apologized for his achievements and almost always shined the light on the fact that everyone should have an opportunity to live like human beings.

However as in the clip above he often was brought face to face with the life and the people and friendships he left behind when moving to the "DEE LUXE Apartment in the sky."

I don't know of many other characters besides The Jefferson's that repeatedly have to find a way to live in one world where every one wants what they have and yet another world where very few people can relate to where they came from.

By the time I was 25 I gained a healthy respect for each of the core cast members of The Jeffersons and the roles they created.

I had marveled at Miss Isabel Sanford's range as an actress.

I thoroughly enjoyed her small role in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.

I so respected her as "Weezy" Jefferson watching her grow into a woman who earned the right to enjoy her wealth. Then really proud that her character became such a vital role in helping other people down at the "health center."

I had always respected Mike Evans as an actor on All In The family but was delighted when I found out that he was a co-creator of the show Good Times with Mr. Eric Monte.

On The Jeffersons his character who was already wealthy went on to finish college and make his dad proud. He made a lot of young cats like me kind of proud too.

There is not enough internet to explain the impact that George Jefferson and Jefferson Cleaners had on me.

I can say this. My first business was making and selling mix tapes in the 1990's and my very first one was titled LIVE FROM JEFFERSON CLEANERS. I recorded the mix tape as if I were a radio personality hosting a live remote from their original Harlem location.

Sherman Hemsley did great work before George Jefferson playing Purly Victorious in the hit stage play Purly. Hemsley went on to create another iconic TV role as Deacon Earnest Frye on Amen, which was set in his home town of Philadelphia.

While the core cast of The Jeffersons have all passed beyond our ability to touch them.

The characters they brought to the small screen will influence my life as long as I have a business to put my name on.

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Life Is Good For Nas...

Back Talk....Nas Life Is Good

I have been down with Nas since HALF TIME.

Most of his songs I would say should be played on cassette so that you have to physically REWIND the tape.

I have not however reviewed by copy of LIFE IS GOOD.
I do however have friends on FACEBOOK who recognize real hip hop.

For the most part they are feeling Life Is Good.

If I had gone through the divorce court abusing that Nas just went through, I might have called my CD
LIFE IS HELL WITH THE WRONG WOMAN AND MY DUMB BUTT THOUGHT IT WAS LOVE!

I digress however.

Words by Raymond Tyler

Here's What My Facebook Don's Said About LIFE IS GOOD and NASTY NAS!

BILLY JEAN-I think this cd is epic...one thing i love about Nas is that he is a story teller and he wears his heart on his sleeve...can't get any realer than that. I feel the subject matter on each song and i really can connect...I give is 5 mics

NIKASHA-I think this CD should get a grammy nod. It's been a long time since I could listen to a HIP HOP CD straight through. Not really feeling the swizz beats track but that's due to the swizz beats "sound"

ANTONIO-Its great to hear a CD that is just good hiphop...it gives you the feeling of music from 1993 -2000's but still fresh enough to be new.

ILLOGIK-The album sounds like NAS when you first started hearing him. Timeless music-nd GOOD HIP-HOP!
DJ SINCERE-One of, if not the hottest CD this year! Real Hip-Hop is over here!!!!! Need I say more!!!!

Naila-From what I've heard, I love the growth in subject matter, but the flow is wack! Which really hurts my soul. It's like he's trying to compete with these youngsters....he's NAS and should know that he's above all that...
SHYSTE-I been listening to this cd since Tuesday its that good listen all the way through over and over.My only complaint is the songs seem out of order.The CD gets mellow allowing Nas to set a mood with great production, guest singers and his dope story telling conceptual rhymes that use great imagry,then out of no where comes songs like THE DON or SUMMER ON SMASH to interupt the mood. Maybe his best work since his classicSTILLMATIC. A more mature Nas who made the hip hop classic ILLMATTIC.

SHIREEN-I was pleasantly surprised with Life is Good. I hadn't liked a Nas CD since Stillmatic but his flow, the storytelling reminded me again of why I dug Nas in the first place! And yes
, I wasn't feeling the Swizz track either.
HERB-Nas is the measuring tape of all Emcees!!!

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Perfect Ending Screening Tonight at Resorts Atlantic City

The Atlantic City screening of Soul Kiss Films & Nicole Conn's latest feature film "A Perfect Ending" starring Barbara Niven & Jessica Clark. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

CLICK HERE for link to tickets: http://acglbt.org/mainpages/event_display.asp?eventID=40

A special Question & Answer forum with Writer/Director Nicole Conn, Exec. Producer Marina Rice Bader and the film's Star Barbara Niven, along with Co-Producer Melanie Rice and the film's composer Bob Fowler - will immediately follow the screening.

Photo ops with the celebs and post party at Pro Bar immediately following.

Portion of the proceeds to benefit the Greater Atlantic City GLBT Alliance.

Tonight at 6pm on The Music and Entertainment Report! Karyn Parsons

Philly, Jersey and Delaware! Please Tune Into Tonight's Music and Entertainment Report for another Great Show!

Last week we talked to Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Star/Universe's Number One DJ Jazzy Jeff!

This Monday Night we talk with Karyn Parson's who played Hillary Banks on the hit sit com!

Find out what she's been doing since Fresh Prince and how YOU can help her with her next project!

Also on today's show.
Special guest panelist...film maker Chris Banks...discussing his new film

The Art of Theaterical Ushery and film makers helping film makers.

Poet Dennis Sholler will be sharing some poetry and discussing what he will bring to Saturday Night's Next Music and Arts Seminar sponsored by The Music and Entertainment Report!

Celebrity Fashion Consultant and Motivator GINA LaMORTE

will discuss her upcoming Driving Your Dreams Event!

And we welcome Jersey's Coldest Female Barber, ALI and she talks cuts, locs and parties!

Tune in tonight at 6pm\

Philly, Jersey and Delaware can listen at 1360 AM WNJC.
The whole world will be listening at www.WNJC1360.com

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Each Week we will catch up with Jersey's Coldest Female Barber ...ALI!

Check in weekly even daily for specials, give-a-ways and more!

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Mark Baxter Opens For WAR Today at Gardner's Basin

Starting at noon today Atlantic City presented it's 3rd of 5 free summer concerts.

Headling today will be WAR but openinmg for WAR will AC's own Mark Baxter.

Go out and support this great vocalist who will soon be headlining his own shows here and around the world.

Here he is at The Little WAC 2011 Kwanzaa Celebration singing Jeffery Osbourne's Love Ballad.

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The Little Wellness Arts and Cultural Center: A THOUSAND WORDS: Shanelle Gabriel, Blue, and Mich...: Tonight's Episode: Three's Company Words and Photo By Raymond Tyler Here are 3 poets that are just dopity dope...I have spent ...

DJ Jazzy Jeff is Stopping By The Music And Entertainment Report! TONIGHT!

 JAZZY JEFF...DJ HERO
Words By Raymond Tyler

DJ Jazzy Jeff will be
 ROCKING THE HOUSE at Caesar's Atlantic City on Tuesday July 17th at Dusk!
Before hand he will be on The Music and Entertainment Report with Raymond Tyler on Monday!

I have loved hip hop for more than 3 decades. I have seen the art form trend from party music to some of the most important music to sometimes being a mess.

Having seen and enjoyed hip hop through many fun times till now, I can say with out a doubt that

DJ Jazzy Jeff is one of the most important people to the culture.

It would be easy to back up my last statement with a list of awards, TV appreances, and other honors.

However, what makes Jeff important in my mind is that he creates music that stands up there on the same level as Public Enemy or any other artist.

What makes Jeff legendary is that from the time I heard The Magnificent Jazzy Jeff and A Touch Of Jazz in 1984-85 there has never been a time that I didn't play his music and have it on record, tape, mix tape, CD and MP3.
Most artists are lucky to have one single where everybody remembers where they were when they first heard it...Jeff has been a part of several (and counting.)

He is one of a select group of artists who blew my mind in the 1980's and came back (The Return Of The Magnificent CD) and blew my mind again in the 2000's.

You Might Say "Ray you are jocking Jeff."
Well if we can agree, there's no shame in being the best?
I would say "I have no shame cause Jeff is the number one DJ in my book" And it's a long way to number two ( I think the man I have as number two might even agree.)

He's THEE DJ....Here Is A Short List of Why I Been Rolling With DJ JAZZY JEFF since 1984.

In 1984...I thought The Adventures of Grand Master Flash On The Wheels Of Steel would be the most amazing DJ driven record I would ever hear. Then I heard The Magnificent Jazzy Jeff complete with the sick rhymes by Fresh Prince and sicker production and scratches by Jeff.
(It's just an amazing interactiong of a fresh MC and a DJ with super powers. You have to hear it for yourself.)

I have about five great copies of Jeff's first LP Rock The House on vinyl. Two of them are still factory sealed.

As a DJ myself I LEARN and figure out stuff everytime I hear Jeff spin. The craziest thing about it is that I can pick up things just by listening. I feel bad when I watch him spin I feel like I'm cheating.
It's hard to explain to people who don't spin. I will try.
First my hands cannot do what Jeff's does (unless you are a brain surgeon yours most likely don't either.) However, when I hear Jeff play a set, he helps me make a mental picture of me playing my set and some of the things I can do with my own music. (One day I am just going to take a note book and write stuff down.)

In my opinion Jeff is still the number one DJ in the universe and he has the very first DJ Battle for World Supremacy Title ever given to back that up.

DJ Jazzy Jeff produced three of the best hip hop recordings ever. The LP's ROCK THE HOUSE, HE'S THE DJ I'M THE RAPPER and THE RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT are each different and incredible. They should be mandatory listening for everybody.

I ain't finished but I could go on all day.

Tune in to The MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORT on Monday from 6pm to 7:30pm
CHECK OUT JAZZY JEFF AT DUSK ON TUESDAY , JULY 17th!

Monday's Music and Entertainment Report!

The Men's Brief: Monday's Music and Entertainment Report!: Here's What Monday's Line Up Looks Like! Recording Artist WINCEY drops by to discuss her new CD and her tesimony as a Gospel Artist....

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Philly's Historic Uptown Is Looking For Talented Youth

Uptown Youth Got Talent!

Uptown Entertainment and Development Corporation

Hosts Auditions for the Uptown Youth Got Talent Show

Beginning Friday, July 27, 6 p.m. at the African American United Fund Conference Center located at 2231 N. Broad St. in Philadelphia, the Uptown Entertainment and Development Corporation (UEDC), owners of the historic Uptown Theater since 2002, will conduct auditions for a fall talent show.  First place talent show winners will become members of the Uptown Youth Got Talent 2012-13 ensemble, a program of the theater's "Young Uptown Around Town" division.  The ensemble performs at three UEDC fundraising events where industry professionals are also present.  Performances take place at various venues throughout the city until the Uptown Theater renovations are completed.

Uptown Youth Got Talent auditions are for youth ages 13 to 18 who sing, rap, dance (or dance with a crew), perform spoken word or act.  Each category first place winner will be awarded a $250 cash prize.  Second place prize is a $50 gift card and third place a $25 gift card.

Audition participants are asked to do a 2-minute performance.  There is a $15 fee to audition.  Audition discounts will be given to those performing as a group and for families with multiple children.  Audition dates are as follows:

FRI., JULY 27, 6PM - SPOKEN WORD

SAT, JULY 28, 1PM - DANCE

SAT.,AUGUST 11, 1PM-ACTING

FRI., AUGUST 17, 6PM - SINGING/RAP

SAT., AUGUST 25, 1PM - ALL CATEGORIES

FRI., AUGUST 31 6PM - ALL CATEGORIES

For more information call Aissia Richardson at 215-236-1878 

Flashing Lights! ON THE BOARDWALK WITH PATTI HARRIS

For more than 10 years dance legend Patti Harris has organized The Incubator For Talented Youth every July on The Boardwalk in Atlantic City.

Tuesday July 10th, I had the honor to be one of the featured speakers/performers along with these great people.

The Logan Brothers were on hand to co host.

Diamond Red keeps the legacy of greats like Cab Calloway alive with his stage show.
And the legacy of Magic Don Juan alive with them purple shoes.

Stephen Logan with Eddie and Zack of The Diverse pop group and Tyrone Logan

Khailah Cochran, Myra, and Sarah Russell

Tyrone Logan, Noel, Miss Cochran, Myra and Stephen

Poet Curtis Jefferson from Baltimore.

You can find great performers at Kennedy Plaza on The Boardwalk every Tuesday at 7pm
with Patti Harris