Back in 2003, British author Monica Ali wowed the world with her Booker Prize-nominated debut, Brick Lane. Now the English/Bangladeshi scribe is back with the new novel, In the Kitchen. Released last month, In the Kitchen tells the tale of chef Gabe Lightfood, a head-chef at a kinda posh London hotel restaurant who works with [...]
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DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Pete Wentz
Rocker and Ashlee Simpson baby-daddy Pete Wentz is not the type to typically be on our radar screen, but when we found out about his work to promote mental health awareness, we decided to get with the Pete program. The Fall Out Boy member — 30 years-old last week — has not only managed to [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Nicki Minaj
We are so feeling Nicki Minaj, the Afro-Indian-Caribbean rap/performance artist from Queens and the latest recipient of a NY Times mini-expose. At just 24, Minaj has carved out a unique niche for herself that has left the Times calling her “The Cindy Sherman of Rap”. Minaj — in all her hoochie-buxom glory — recreates the [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIALS: Michael Jackson's Kids
It’s been quite a long time since we’ve seen them, but the somewhat normal looking kids above belong to none other than Michael Jackson. Indeed, 12 year-old Prince Michael and 11 year-old Paris Jackson were spotted in Los Angeles leaving a recording studio with their father and NOT covered with crazy masks like they always [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: The Listener's Mylene Dinh-Robic
Canadian hottie Mylene Dinh-Robic will this week form part of the young cast fronting the new show The Listener — which debuts Thursday on NBC. Folks who find the Montreal-born Eurasian familiar probably recognize Dinh-Robic from guest spots on Battlestar Galactica and Smallville. On The Listener, Dinh-Robic plays an ER doctor in a tempestuous relationship [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Transracial-in-Chief Barack Obama
Long before he became President, Barack Obama was a nice boy from Hawaii who moved to LA to study at Occidental College in the late 1970s There he did what most young adults do in SoCal — experimented with fashion, friends and even drugs before heading full-steam onto the path that would lead him to [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Rabbi Alysa Stanton
Big news in the rabbinical arena. Next month sees Alysa Stanton (above) becoming the first-ever formally-ordained female African-American rabbi. Forty five year-old Stanton was born Pentecostal in Cleveland, OH and began a hard-core Orthodox conversion process in her 20s. The divorced mother already completed her Rabbinical internship in — of all places — Dothan, Alabama, [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Theo Spielberg
Long before Madonna and Angelina Jolie popularized white folk adopting black babies, uber-director Steven Spielberg was setting the trend — having adopted two African American kids back in the ’80s! The oldest is Theo (above), who — according to Gawker – is taking up roost at our favorite magazine, New York, where he will serve [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Botswanan President Ian Khama
Things are getting interesting in the Southern African nation of Botswana — where President Ian Khama is looking to get his 1.8 million citizens to stop hitting the bottle. In THIS in-depth feature story, The Financial Times reveals Khama’s recent decree tacking on a a whopping 70 percent levy on alcohol sold in his country. [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: The Cast of Precious
The buzz-meter is blaring non-stop about the upcoming indie film Precious — which stars an impressive roster of Transracial talent including Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey and the uber-lovely Paula Patton (all above, yesterday, along with star Monique and director Lee Daniels). The crew were snapped yesterday in Cannes enjoying some fruity-flavored down-time at Vitamin Water’s [...]