July 12, 2018
Aries
MAR 21 - APR 19
There is so much peace and harmony available to you in matters of the heart this week. It's nice to know that your love life doesn't have to feel like a roller coaster and can just coast from time to time. That is exactly what you'll feel this week. If you're in a relationship, things are just working when it comes to your connection. You and your partner have an easy reciprocity of give and take -- neither one of you feels depleted or used in the relationship. If you're single, just keep going about your day and doing your thing. You can meet someone simply by "doing you."
Taurus
APR 20 - MAY 20
You know that lull you might have been feeling in your relationship? That feeling you've had that all the progress you've made recently in your love life is not being rewarded? Well, it's about to disappear and all the cosmic goodness in matters of the heart will soon return! Jupiter, the planet of expansion and blessings, will turn direct in your partnership sector this Tuesday, helping you forge a richly fulfilling intimate bond with your special someone. If you're single, Venus moves into your romance sector on Monday, lighting up the opportunity for you to meet someone new who has something REAL to offer you.
Gemini
MAY 21 - JUN 20
You've got forward movement when it comes to love this week! After Monday, you and your sweetheart might start talking about taking your relationship to a much cozier level. If you're not already living together, this discussion might become real and practical. It just makes sense that if you're spending most of your time with each other, you stop paying double rent and start seeing if you can really cohabitate. Go for it! With the ruler of your partnership sector, Jupiter, turning direct on Tuesday, it's just another signal from the universe that in matters of the heart, it's all systems go!
Cancer
JUN 21 - JUL 22
There's major love potential popping up for you this week, Cancer! Jupiter turns direct in your romance sector on Tuesday after having been retrograde for several months. Now that Jupiter is in forward motion, single Cancerians have the best prospects to attract new love. Adding to this is the fact that a major new start is about to occur in your life. Thursday's Solar Eclipse in your sign will absolutely add to the potential for a new relationship. If you're already coupled, you might crave a personal fresh start that your mate somehow feels threatened by. You need to do it anyway.
Leo
JUL 23 - AUG 22
The ruler of your true love sector turns direct this week, which will do wonders for your romantic prospects. One of your relatives might be instrumental in helping you smooth out a rough patch that might have recently occurred between you and your sweetheart. This might be one of your parents who offers you wise advice, but it might also be a relative who literally gives you and your lover a bit of couple's therapy. It will work magic! If you're single it's possible that you'll meet someone this week through a relative's introduction. Be optimistic.
Virgo
AUG 23 - SEP 22
Ahhh, Virgo. Your cosmic fairy godmother is about to wave her magic wand and give you a most precious gift. Her name is Venus. She will move into your sign on Monday where she will remain until August 6. Venus moving through one's sign is no small matter. Happening only once a year, it's a time to celebrate all that is Venusian as it is more easily expressed through you and within you. That means you're now shining a light that is pure love. You're able to express feelings from your heart and give off an attractive vibe to others that makes everyone want to be in your energy space. If single, this will absolutely go a long way towards attracting others your way. If you're in a relationship, you'll be able to give the best you have to offer to your mate in a way that he or she truly values and appreciates. What a blessing.
Libra
SEP 23 - OCT 22
Your love life has become more of a frustration lately, but there is potential for you and your mate to begin an important phase of rest and healing this week. Venus will move into your 12th House of Inner Peace on Monday and remains here through August 6. If you're coupled, this can be a time of forgiveness, especially if you and your mate are consciously working to improve your relationship in therapy with a trusted counselor. If you're single, you might have valuable breakthroughs during this time about any unhealthy patterns you know are not serving you well in matters of the heart. It's time to let them go.
Scorpio
OCT 23 - NOV 21
You're going to feel as if new life has been breathed into you this week, Scorpio. Jupiter, the planet of optimism and faith, will turn direct in your sign on Tuesday after having been retrograde for the last few months. Not only will you experience a resurgence of outer luck and blessings now, but you'll also remember that you've had the power all along to truly make this magic happen in your life. You'll undoubtedly see this begin to manifest in your love life. A close relationship gets closer ... much, much closer.
Sagittarius
NOV 22 - DEC 21
Since your ruling planet, Jupiter, will move direct this week, you certainly have a lot to celebrate. You've had a deep spiritual awakening over the last several months when it comes to what you truly crave in terms of depth and intimacy in merging with another. You might not have been able to truly integrate these cognitions into reality just yet but don't worry, you will. The universe is about to offer you a major opportunity to get it right in love just as long as you're willing to expose who you really are to the person you want to share your heart with. Get ready.
Capricorn
DEC 22 - JAN 19
Huge shifts are on the horizon for you in your relationship, and guess what? You've got all the power. This week, a Solar Eclipse in your 7th House of Commitment will shine a major light on what's happening between you and someone close. It's time for a fresh start in this area of your life, either with the person you're currently in a relationship with or with someone brand spanking new. The fascinating part of this eclipse is the fact that it's sharply opposite Pluto, the planet of control, now in your sign. This strongly suggests that you are in the driver's seat, whether your mate likes it or not. What you say goes, Capricorn.
July 12, 2018
Aquarius
JAN 20 - FEB 18
Although you're not feeling as though you're fully in your power these days, there is a glimmer of hope when it comes to love and relationships. Venus will move into your 8th House of Shared Resources and Deep Intimacy on Monday, remaining here through August 6. This is good news if you're already in a committed partnership with someone. For starters, you and your mate could have some happy news concerning a joint investment or other financial decision you have recently made. The outcome looks promising. Another possibility is that your lover will receive fortunate news about a money situation that you will benefit from. As far as your deepest psychological connections go ... well, you and your partner are going to feel as if you fit together like two puzzle pieces made for one another.
Pisces
FEB 19 - MAR 20
Love is a beautiful thing. When the planet of love is cooperating in your life, it's even more amazing. This week you'll begin to enjoy a charming phase as Venus moves through your partnership sector. Through August 6, this trend will help improve an existing love connection with your sweetheart in the most humble, quiet, and real way possible. There isn't anything loud or egotistical about the love you share and that's exactly the way you both prefer it. You're happy quietly living your life together and taking care of each other in your own private world. If single, a Solar Eclipse lights up your romance sector on Thursday. A new, but -- complicated -- opportunity for love is about to open up.
July 12, 2018
City News Service
A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled this week honoring actress Niecy Nash, star of the TNT dramedy “Claws,” and two-time Primetime Emmy nominee and Daytime Emmy winner.
Nash was joined by producer Ryan Murphy and Cedric “The Entertainer.” The stars spoke in front of the Eastown apartment complex on Hollywood Boulevard.
Murphy produced the Fox horror comedy “Scream Queens” on which Nash had a recurring role. Cedric “The Entertainer” co-starred with Nash in the 2012-16 TV Land comedy “The Soul Man” and the 2007 action film comedy “Code Name: The Cleaner.”
The star is the 2,639th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the first 1,558 stars. The ceremony will be livestreamed on walkoffame.com.
Nash received outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series Primetime Emmy nominations in 2015 and 2016 for her performances as nurse Denise “DiDi” Ortley in the 2013-15 HBO comedy “Getting On.”
For hosting and producing “Clean House” Nash shared the 2010 Daytime Emmy it won for outstanding special class special for the episode titled, “The Messiest Home In The Country.”
Nash also received Daytime Emmy nominations as a producer when the Style Network home makeover and interior design series was nominated in 2009 outstanding special class special and outstanding lifestyle program and in 2010 when it was nominated as outstanding lifestyle program.
In “Claws” Nash portrays the owner of a nail salon in Manatee County, Florida, who works alongside her staff to launder money from Suncoast Rejuvenation, a mob-owned barely legal pain clinic.
“Claws” was renewed for a third season on July 2.
Born Carol Denise Ensley on Feb. 23, 1970, Nash received a bachelor's degree from California State University Dominguez Hills, majoring in theatre arts.
Nash made her film debut portraying a woman in a diner in the 1995 comedy-drama “Boys on the Side.” Her first television appearance came in a 1996 episode of the Fox drama “Party of Five.”
Nash is best known for her role as Deputy Raineesha Williams in “Reno 911!” Comedy Central's 2003-09 unscripted spoof of the long-running Foxm alternative series “Cops.”
Nash’s other television credits include a stint as a correspondent on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” starring in the short-lived Fox comedy “Do Not Disturb,” recurring roles on the Fox comedy, “The Bernie Mac Show” and Showtime period drama “Masters of Sex,” and guest-starring roles “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “NYPD Blue” and “Judging Amy.”
Nash’s other film credits include “Selma,” “Guess Who,” “G- Force” and “Downsizing.”
“Niecy Nash is one exceptional star who grabs your attention with her antics and great personality,” said Ana Martinez, producer of the Walk of Fame ceremonies. “She embodies characters that everyone can relate to and appeals to fans around the world.”
July 05, 2018
By Lapacazo Sandoval
Contributing Writer
Based on the press image provided by book publisher Henry Holt and Company, author Tomi Adeyemi the 24-year old Nigerian-American author of “Children of Blood and Bone” favors natural hair. In the photograph, she’s smiling but not in a cheesy and staged manner that is often favored (or forced upon) by authors. You know that cliched press image, the one that suggests that perhaps the author wants to shout to the viewer—“I am an intellectual so take me seriously—dam it—”. That’s not the case with Adeyemi's image. If you look closely there is something in her eyes that makes her look like she’s holding a great, big, juicy, earth-shattering secret and one that will be spilled by no one but Tomi Adeyemi.
Adeyemi's “The Children of Blood at Bone” is set in the magical land of Orïsha and is told through the eyes of a young woman named Zélie who goes on a quest to restore magic to her people. It’s a dark time for Zélie’s people with magic being banned from the land. Prior to the events detailed in the book, Orïsha had been home to powerful maji, those individuals blessed by the gods with supernatural powers. Terrified by the unknown, an evil king outlawed magic and destroyed most of the maji. After having a chance run-in with Amari, a runaway princess who might hold the key to restoring magic, Zélie and her brother Tzain begin an action-packed journey that takes them all the way across Orïsha.
On her recent press book tour, Adeyemi's team found exactly 12 minutes for us to chat, via phone. I don’t want to sound bitter, I am not. I am respectful of time, it is a precious element and unless you are one of the maji you can’t stop, rewind or fast-forward time—unless, again you are blessed by the gods.
Adeyemi is the middle child of three with a brother and younger sister. Her father is a doctor, and in Chicago, her mother runs a group of hospices. Adeyemi studied English literature at Harvard before traveling to Brazil on a fellowship to immersive herself into West African culture and mythology. It was in South America that the seeds of Children of Blood and Bone, the first in a trilogy, were sown.
There are ten clans inside the Maji society. IKU clan are the reapers, and their deity is Oya. EMI clan are the connectors, and their deity is Ori. OMI clan are the tiders (water) and their deity is Yemoja. INA clan are burners (fire) and their deity is Sango. Afefe clan is are winders (air) and their diety is Ayao. Aiye clan are grounder+welder (iron and earth) and their deity is Ogun. Imole clan is described as darkness and light, and their deity Ochumare. Iwosan clan are healers+cancer, their deity is Babaluaye. Ariran clan are seers, maji of time and their deity is Orunmila. Eranko clan are tamers (animals) and their deity is Oxosi.
Strolling the wide streets of Harlem, I chatted with Adeyemi and this is what she has to say about what inspired Zélie's world and why she hopes that young girls, all over the world will read her book and connect with the spirit of the story. It’s almost a safe bet to say that her wish will come true, since along with the critical accolades for the debut novel, Adeyemi also landed a three-book and three-movie deal with an all-Black cast of characters. Impressive.
L.A. Watts Times (LAWT): I have 12 minutes. Question one — 24 is mad young. Congratulations, you are blowing up. Your thoughts on this?
Tomi Adeyemi (TA): Since the publishing of the book [“Children of Blood and Bone”] I’ve spent a lot of time thinking, is this for real? It is. I’m working on the next one, right now, and OMG, you know … it’s a lot of work. I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. “Children of Blood and Bone” is a chance to address that. To say you are seen.
LAWT: In reading this book and learning more about the ten maji clans, I could not help but think this reminds me of today, circa 2018 and how America snatched language, culture, religion, and tradition from the Africans that they enslaved. Dare I say it, they tried to destroy our magic. Thoughts?
TA: I’d say that Zélie’s quest to reawaken magic in the country of Orïsha – is an allegory for the modern black experience and it draws inspiration from both West African mythology and the Black Lives Matter movement.
LAWT: It’s an adventure and graphic. The lead character, Zélie’ is a warrior and in the first chapter entitled —Zélie — we get a taste of it.
PICK ME.
It’s all I can do not to scream I dig my nails into the marula oak of my staff and squeeze to keep from fidgeting. Beads of sweat drip down my back, but I can’t tell if it’s from the dawn’s early heat or from my heart slamming against my chest. Moon after moon I’ve been passed over.
Today can’t be the same. — Zélie — “Children of Blood and Bone”
TA: Yes. It’s important that black girls see themselves strong. In my perfect world, we’d have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.
LAWT: It’s exciting knowing that your books will have a life on the big screen. The success of Marvel’s “Black Panther” has Hollywood in a mad dash to find the “next” voice, and we both know if it’s not with a Black film director the folks won’t support it — and nor should we.
TA: You’re right about the success of “Black Panther,” it has been so significant and empowering. Imagination is a funny thing – we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.
LAWT: When did you know that you had found your career?
TA: I’ve been writing since 2016. That’s when the realization that I wanted to become a full-time writer hit me.
LAWT: What’s next? Silly question but I must ask it.
TA: The sequel to “The Children of Blood at Bone”! And after that, the final book in the trilogy!
But I do have a few secret projects but for now….
LAWT: …but for now, they will remain a secret.
TA: For now, yes.
July 05, 2018
By ANDREW DALTON
AP Entertainment Writer
Jackson family patriarch Joseph Jackson has been buried in the same Southern California cemetery as his late son Michael.
A source close to the family who is not authorized to speak publicly said Joe Jackson was laid to rest Monday in a private ceremony at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.
Jackson died Wednesday in Las Vegas at age 89 and is survived by wife Katherine, eight children and dozens of grandchildren.
Eldest son Jackie Jackson posted a photo of himself on Instagram Monday afternoon in a black suit and sunglasses while dressing one of his young twin sons in a similar suit.
Michael Jackson was entombed in 2009 in the mausoleum at the opulent cemetery that is also the final resting place of Elizabeth Taylor and Walt Disney.