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Black America Web
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Michael Jordan Joins NBC's NBA Coverage Team As 'Special Contributor' & Social Media Awaits The Trash Talk
Source: Jacob Kupferman / Getty Since retiring in 2003, Michael Jordan has stayed out of the spotlight, while choosing to remarry, open free healthcare clinics, and act as the face of Jordan Brand. But now, Jordan is returning to the world of basketball like many of his NBA brethren by becoming a 'special contributor' for NBC. The major network made the announcement at its upfronts at New York City's Radio City Music Hall while previewing what it's cooking up for the upcoming TV season. 'I am so excited to see the NBA back on NBC,' Jordan said during a video message, according to the NBA. 'The NBA on NBC was a meaningful part of my career, and I'm excited about being a special contributor to the project. I'm looking forward to seeing you all when the NBA on NBC launches this October.' NBC has a soft spot in Jordan's heart as it was the network that held the rights to the NBA throughout his career, during which he won six championships. NBC lost its rights in 2002, and ESPN/ABC and TNT have had rights since then, but they'll revert once the finals wrap up in June. Disney and Amazon Prime Video will join NBC in an 11-year deal worth about $76 billion. Traditional journalists are essential in sports when it comes to fact- and statistics-based coverage, but having former players be able to break down the X's and O's takes analysis to another level. And with the GOAT sitting in that seat now, it becomes the most coveted. 'Michael's legacy both on and off the court speaks for itself,' NBC Sports President Rick Cordella said. 'We're incredibly proud to have him join our coverage.' The only time we've heard from Jordan is during his 10-part ESPN doc, The Last Dance , where he chronicles the rise and fall of the Chicago Bulls dynasty. Known as a top-notch trash talker, hearing him give his takes will be must-watch TV. See how social media is reacting to the news below. Michael Jordan Joins NBC's NBA Coverage Team As 'Special Contributor' & Social Media Awaits The Trash Talk was originally published on Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
The Independent
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
New York Dolls frontman David Johansen dies aged 75
New York Dolls frontman David Johansen has died aged 75. Johansen died on Friday at his home in New York City, according to Rolling Stone, citing a family spokesperson. Earlier this year it was revealed that he had stage four cancer and a brain tumour. Johansen helped to redefine what rock and roll could be, providing the blueprint for the British punk bands who followed, with tracks such as Looking For A Kiss, Trash and Personality Crisis. Born in New York City to an Irish American mother and Norwegian American father, Johansen's gravelly yet camped-up vocals were the perfect complement to the band's cross-dressing style and hard and fast blues punk sound. The singer began his career in Staten Island band the Vagabond Missionaries in the late 1960s, before being invited to join the New York Dolls in 1971, after guitarist Johnny Thunders decided he no longer wanted to be the group's lead singer. The band, who took their name from the New York Doll Hospital, a doll repair shop, released their self-titled debut LP in 1973, produced by Todd Rundgren, which achieved limited commercial success at the time, and saw them voted both the best and worst group of the year in US rock publication Creem. Following the album's release, the band toured Europe and landed a spot on BBC music show The Old Grey Whistle Test, hosted by Bob Harris. After the band performed Jet Boy on the show, Harris, who preferred the folk and country music of the day, infamously branded them 'mock rock', with the moment bringing the group to wider attention in the UK. It is reported that Harris made the remarks after Johansen told him he had 'bunny teeth' prior to the performance. During their heyday, the band became a favourite and friends of David Bowie, with Johansen once recalling a story of the pair being catcalled in New York after a passing driver had mistaken them for women due to their feminine style. The band released their second album Too Much Too Soon in 1974, bringing in George 'Shadow' Morton on production. Morton had worked with girl group the Shangri-Las, from whose track Give Him A Great Big Kiss the band took their Looking For A Kiss's 'when I say I'm in love, you best believe I'm in love, L.U.V' intro. Too Much Too Soon saw limited sales, despite Morton's production receiving critical acclaim for bringing out the band's raw sound. In 1975, the band appointed Malcolm McLaren as manager, who would go on to achieve success with the Sex Pistols. McLaren dressed the band in red leather outfits and made them perform against a communist flag backdrop. The change in style was unsuccessful and the band split up in 1976, amid creative differences and drug and alcohol problems among some of its members. Shortly after their demise, the band would be quoted as a major influence on British punk bands such as The Clash, The Damned and the Sex Pistols, who wrote the deprecating New York about the Dolls. After the break-up of the band, Johansen embarked on a solo career which spawned four studio albums from 1978 to 1984, with former New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain regularly reuniting with him for live performances during that time. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he would go on to have some commercial success, releasing four albums under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, which saw a change in style to novelty, blues, pop and swing. Johansen also embarked on an acting career which saw him appear as the Ghost Of Christmas Past in Scrooged (1988). In 2004, with the help of The Smiths' lead singer Morrissey, who had been the head of the Dolls' UK fan club and regularly described the group as his favourite, the band's three surviving original members Arthur 'Killer' Kane, Sylvain and Johansen reunited. The trio performed their first reunion gig at the Meltdown Festival at London's Royal Festival Hall, curated by Morrissey, which was released as a live album and DVD. The band continued to perform until 2011, having returned to recording with One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (2006), Cause I Sez So (2009) and Dancing Backward In High Heels (2011). In 2016, Johansen re-recorded the Dolls' Personality Crisis and cover of Stranded In The Jungle for Martin Scorsese's HBO series Vinyl, which saw the singer portrayed by Christian Peslak in the series' opening sequence, which shows the band performing at the Mercer Arts Centre in New York. Scorsese also directed a 2023 documentary on Johansen's life entitled Personality Crisis: One Night Only. At the time of his death, Johansen was the sole surviving member of the band, after Kane died just days after the first reunion concert in 2004, Sylvain died in 2021 after a cancer diagnosis, Thunders died in 1991, and drummers Jerry Nolan and Billy Mercia died in 1992 and 1972 respectively. Up until his death, the singer had continued to present his US radio show David Johansen's Mansion Of Fun on Sirius XM. In 2013, Johansen married artist Mara Hennessey, and he is also survived by his stepdaughter Leah Hennessey. Prior to his death, his stepdaughter revealed Johansen had been suffering with stage four cancer for 'most of the past decade' and had been diagnosed with a brain tumour at the beginning of the Covid pandemic. She also said he had broken his back in two places, leaving him 'bedridden and incapacitated', in a post on the singer's fundraising page, but said he remained 'hilarious and wise' in his final days.
Los Angeles Times
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
David Johansen, flamboyant New York Dolls frontman, dies at 75
David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of the flamboyantly gritty proto-punk band New York Dolls has died. He was 75. Johnasen died at his home in Staten Island, N.Y., as confirmed by his daughter Leah Hennessy to multiple outlets. Johansen had suffered from Stage 4 cancer and a broken back in recent years, according to Johansen's fundraiser on Sweet Relief, a music charity. In the New York Dolls, Johansen defined an era when '70s glam rock was getting leaner and meaner as the seeds of punk rock began to sow. With a transgressive gender-bending style — lipstick and eyeliner, skin-tight leather and pinup-worthy hair — the Dolls were under-heralded in an era still dominated by arena-rock giants. But amid a wave of acts like MC5, T. Rex and Suicide, they recast rock 'n' roll Americana and British Invasion panache for a new era of decadent, insistent and streetwise music that would become punk. 'Brimming with a sloppy insouciance, their debut album often is cited as one of the building blocks of the late '70s punk movement,' The Times wrote in an early review. 'There's no denying David Johansen's bratty vocalizing… But unlike the MC5 — fellow revolutionaries who more directly presaged the hard-core aspects of the coming punk rebellion — the Dolls had clearer roots in the rock mainstream.' Johansen, a Staten Island native, joined the Dolls in 1971, playing an auspicious early gig at a local homeless shelter. Their instantly arresting look pulled from David Bowie's androgyny and the drag-culture underground in New York. Johansen had the sharp, pouty features of Mick Jagger, but the sneer and savvy of his hometown. 'All the record companies have been to see us,' Johansen told Rolling Stone in 1972. 'They think we're too outrageous. They know we're real and we'll stop at nothing, and it scares the s— outta them.' The group's self-titled 1973 debut LP — featuring the members in full regalia on the cover — had the bones of a future rock classic. Produced by Todd Rundgren, the LP sported tracks like 'Personality Crisis,' 'Bad Girl' and 'Trash' that packed tons of girl-group melody and grimy, loose-limbed riffing (courtesy of guitarist Johnny Thunders) into a few short minutes. 'Lonely Planet Boy,' a more somber acoustic ballad, and bluesy 'Looking For A Kiss' showed a genuine range and close study of rock history. The album was acclaimed in the era's small circle of tastemakers — they were beloved at the Mercer Arts Center, a downtown club frequented by Andy Warhol. The Smiths' frontman Morrissey was entranced by a BBC broadcast of the Dolls' performing 'Jet Boy,' and became president of their U.K. fan club. But the LP sold poorly, peaking at No. 116 on the Billboard charts. Their followup, 1974's 'Too Much Too Soon,' didn't make much commercial impact either. Addiction issues sidelined much of the band, and despite a late-career management shift to the Sex Pistols' svengali Malcolm McLaren, the Dolls broke up in 1976. Johansen reemerged as a solo act indebted to the Dolls' catalog, often playing with former bandmate Sylvain Sylvain. Yet he had an unexpected pop resurgence in the '80s after re-inventing himself as Buster Poindexter, a louche lounge-lizard persona that scored an unlikely Hot 100 hit and MTV fixture with a cover of the calypso staple 'Hot Hot Hot' (even if, as he later claimed, the song was 'the bane of my existence'). The novelty hit also attracted attention from Hollywood. Johansen made his TV debut in a 1985 episode of 'Miami Vice,' and won roles as the Ghost of Christmas Past in the beloved Bill Murray 1988 holiday staple 'Scrooged' and as a priest in 'Married to the Mob.' That kicked off a busy career as a character actor in the '80s and '90s, in films including 'Let it Ride' and 'Mr. Nanny.' A Dolls reunion seemed unlikely — Thunders and drummer Jerry Nolan each died in 1991. But in 2004, the group's three surviving members reunited for a Morrissey-curated edition of the Meltdown festival in London. '[Morrissey] called me, and he said, 'I understand you're a pretty big Maria Callas fan,'' Johansen said in the 2022 documentary 'Personality Crisis: One Night Only.' 'He said, 'Well, you know that film she made where she did a fantastic concert at the Royal Festival Hall?.. How would you like to play the Royal Festival Hall?… All you have to do is get the Dolls back together.'' 'I combed every opium den in Chinatown, and I pulled that band together,' Johansen said. 'We were fantastic.' Although bassist Arthur 'Killer' Kane died weeks later that year, Johansen and Sylvain continued on with a new Dolls lineup and released three more albums, 2006's 'One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This,' 2009's 'Cause I Sez So,' and 2011's 'Dancing Backward in High Heels.' To support the last record, the Dolls opened for Mötley Crüe and Poison — '80s stadium acts with deep debts, the Dolls' fashion sense and hooky hard rock — on a massive tour, but did not return to the road or studio afterward. In 2020, director Martin Scorsese — a '70s New York peer and Dolls devotee — teamed with David Tedeschi to film a Johansen solo set at New York's Café Carlyle. They used it as the backbone of the 2022 documentary 'Personality Crisis: One Night Only,' tracing Johansen's life and immeasurable impact on an era of rock. 'Over the years, in the history books…[it] would always say, 'They were trashy. They were flashy. They were drug addicts. They were drag queens,'' Johansen told Terry Gross in 2004. 'That whole kind of trashy blah, blah, blah thing over the years kind of settled in my mind as, oh, yeah, that's what it was, you know? And then by going back to it and deconstructing it, and then putting it back together again, I realized that, you know, it really is art.' Johansen's survivors include wife Mara Hennessey and daughter Leah Hennessey.
Boston Globe
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘To be a powerhouse city, we need to show off our talent': New wine, culinary festivals coming to Providence
Some of the events will be free or low-cost and open to the public, where you can sip and eat creative bites from local food trucks. Others will 'roll out the red carpet, with caviar and champagne,' said Ortiz. That range, they said, is the point. Advertisement Rosanna Ortiz, left, and Kristen Adamo, right, at a vineyard in Napa Valley, California. Kristen Adamo The long-time friends are influential women in their own right, particularly when it comes to showcasing the city's core features. Adamo is the president and CEO of the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau, where she has the ear of politicians and is responsible for bringing millions of dollars in meetings, conventions, and Adamo has been dreaming up a culinary festival in Providence for nearly two decades, while Ortiz said she has been nurturing the idea of hosting a wine festival for years. But this year's won't be a one-off. Advertisement 'This is our incubator,' Adamo promises, hoping this will become an annual tradition that will grow over time. This year's festivals are the first-of-their-kind in Providence, but some elements will be reflective of other festivals around the country. They spoke to the organizers of Charleston Wine & Food festival, which is a major bash, during their planning, for example. Related : Unlike many wine festivals around the region, Ortiz said she has prioritized paying her sommeliers. As organizers, she and Adamo really aren't paying themselves, but some proceeds will go to Feed the Children, an anti-hunger nonprofit that delivers food and other essentials to children and families. On March 27, they'll kick off the festival in the morning by reopening the The lamb shank at Cafe Nuovo is slow-braised for six hours with roasted orzo and tomato braising sauce. Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff 'We're going to focus on domestic, because no one does. Everyone reaches for Italian and International, when we have plenty of really great wines right in California,' said Ortiz. On March 28, guests will be able to meet Advertisement On March 29, several food trucks will line up outside Veterans Memorial Auditorium for bites, while local beer and wine will be served from Good Vibes Beverages. Wine X will host a tasting event ( They'll host a 'Vintners Dinner' by chef Inside the former Dorrance restaurant space at 60 Dorrance St., in Providence, R.I. Go Providence Each day, they'll also host a 'Trash Talk & Tipsy' pairing series, which will explore the perhaps underrated satisfactions of They'll close out the festivals on March 30 with a drag brunch outside The Dark Lady and The Alley Cat, 'March in Providence is going to be a lot,' said Adamo, who rattled off several major events that will take place prior to the festivals: St. Patrick's Day, national wrestling matches, Related : Advertisement Motioning over a three-page schedule of events for the culinary and wine festivals, Adamo and Ortiz said the schedule is still in flux, and they may be adding more tasting events and ticketed dinners. One of them, which is still being planned, could be right at Res American Bistro. 'This is ambitious,' said Adamo of the food and wine festivals, while holding out her stemmed wine glass for another pour. 'But it's the right time for Providence. And this city deserves a showcase.' Alexa Gagosz can be reached at
