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Posts tagged with "Dwight Hobbes"
Rick Ross’ apology just a phony play for sympathy
Apr. 24 | Hypothetical situation: Rick Ross is hanging out at his favorite water hole. He strikes up a conversation with a guy. They hit it off pretty good and he invites the fella back to his crib to shoot pool, watch the game, whatever. Ross, for...
After that first night with Lesli, Keith had to admit it: He was in love
Apr. 24 | Come morning, room service rang at the door. He’d forced his eyes to open, dragged himself out of the bed, staggered across the floor and was about to answer the door before remembering to put his pants on. Snatching one of the complimentary...
Acoustic soul artist Richie Havens, icon of a generation, succumbed to heart attack on April 22
Apr. 24 | By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer Hailing from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, N.Y. where he was a contemporary of seminal spoken wordsmiths The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron (they all recorded for the tiny label...
Lesli, a determined woman, took charge that first night together
Apr. 22 | Keith, over the past hour, had stared out the window so long, way down to the street below, that someone might’ve thought he was considering a jump. Still recalling his first night with Lesli, he surprised himself with a small laugh. Ambushing him...
Safe Harbor bill protects youth from being victimized twice
Apr. 17 | No Wrong Door gives sexually exploited children support, not punishment News Analysis By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, signed the Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Youth Act...
42 shows Jackie Robinson as a flesh-and-blood hero
Apr. 17 | A movie review By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer Were baseball, back in 1947, the boring, high-priced waste of time and money it is today, you’d have to wonder why Jackie Robinson went to the trouble. In those days, though,...
Dating tips for sistahs who don’t get it
Apr. 17 | Hard as it might be for sistahs to believe, everything that goes wrong in the pursuit of life, liberty and a relationship that works out is not necessarily the man’s fault. Much as the ladies like to believe the only mistake...
Educator says help at home crucial to academic achievement
Apr. 10 | By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer It’s said you can’t change the world but you can do something about the few square feet you occupy. Try telling that to educator-motivational speaker Daphne Brown, who utilizes both practical...
A phone call interrupts Keith’s lonely night in Vegas
Apr. 10 | Keith was resigned to a lonely Sunday night in his Vegas hotel room without time to hook up with Lesli. He rang room service, placed a breakfast order — surprise, no grits — and turned on the stereo, looking for a station that played...
