Jamaican by birth, Chef Anthony Mair was raised in Toronto, Ontario Canada. At 10 years old his curiosity in the art of hospitality and gastronomy was awakened. Since then he has not looked back. Anthony graduated in Culinary Management at George Brown College in Toronto Canada. He has refined his culinary skills through various cooking competitions across Canada, The USA, and Europe.
Chef Mair has worked for and managed numerous restaurants over the years that included, French, Italian, Asian, Russian, Greek, Southern U.S., Jamaican, Trinidadian, etc. He has personally owned and managed 6 restaurants, the latest of which is the restaurant at the Westender Inn resort in Jamaica. He has been on TV shows and competed in Food Network Iron Chef competitions. His expertise has given him the opportunity to make many judging, guest chef, and guest speaker appearances along with instructing classes at Culinary Colleges.
In his ever present urge to help/give back to the culinary
students of Jamaica, Chef Mair founded Mair Cutlery and the Caribbean Culinary Network (CCN). Mair Cutlery is a knife sales and sharpening service that came about after he realized that there was a need for proper knives, knife technique, and kitchen equipment in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Mair Cutlery has opened up a door that gives ALL culinary students and professionals access to quality knives.
CCN is an education driven, Caribbean-wide collective of food professionals. Together, we’re working to become THE central resource for all things culinary. Through CCN’s workshops, events (Negril Culinary showcase, Chef’s Day Off, etc), information databases, and mentorship programs, culinary students will gain access to the specialty knowledge and practical experience necessary for acquiring diversity and global marketability.
We are excited to have Chef Anthony Mair on our show live tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Pacific.
During our live interview, you have the opportunity to call in and share with us and ask questions via Skype. If you would like to do this, please call us at: doctorvibe42. If you get through, please be patient and we will get to your call as soon as possible.
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Rhonda A. Lee was born in Plano, Texas and has lived in nine states and fifteen cities. She always knew that she was going to be on television and launched her television career at a young age in Kansas. She graduated in journalism from Kansas State University and went back to school after ten years to Mississippi State University to study weather broadcasting. She has been a weather broadcaster for five years
During our chat, Rhonda talks about:
– The challenges she and her family faced growing up in rural Kansas
– Her challenges she faced in public school and in college
– How important her parents were to her while she was growing up
– Her fascination with weather from a young age
– How Elvis Presley influenced her to get back to school after ten years
– Her journey from Munroe, Louisiana to New York to Austin, Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana and how did she get the gig in New York
– While in Austin, Texas is where she encountered suggestions about changing her hair for her weather reporting
– The story about the most recent incident with Rhonda wearing her hair natural which led her to being fire from her most recent job in Shreveport, Louisiana and the aftermath
– Victory Unlimited joins the conversation with some great questions for Rhonda
– The state of Blacks in media and the state of Black media
A Toronto native, Natasha Powell is not only recognized as an extremely versatile and passionate artist, but more importantly, a soulful mover. Her training started in ballet, jazz, and tap, then branched out to street dance forms hip hop, house, waacking, and funk styles. Her extensive dance vocabulary stems from training across North America with some of the best in these forms. As a performer, select credits TV and film credits include Nickelodeon’s “Spectacular!”, HBO Series “The L Word”, and “Centre Stage 2”.
In 2008, Powell became co-Artistic Director and Choreographer of Toronto dance company “Catalyst” a collective that is highly-respected for their creative, dynamic, and versatile story-telling methods. They are most known for their work in the Toronto Fringe Festival titled “The 5th Element” which received raving accolades from NOW Magazine, and other theatre reviewers, and was nominated as BEST DANCE PRODUCTION in the 2011 Broadway World Toronto Awards.
In 2011, she founded “Soul Committed Productions”, an organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the vital core element in urban dance: soul. Through workshops, programming, and events, her aim is to foster, inspire, educate and build relationships between the artists and the people that support them.
Natasha will be on our live today at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific. She will be talking “Gimmie One Riddim”, an upcoming production in which she is the Co-Producer/Choreographer.
During our live interview, you have the opportunity to call in and share with us and ask questions via Skype. If you would like to do this, please call us at: doctorvibe42. If you get through, please be patient and we will get to your call as soon as possible.
All you need to do listen to the show live is to go The Dr. Vibe Show Homepage at http://thedrvibeshow.com/ tonight at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific. You can also provide your comments and questions during the event via Twitter (@drvibeshow#DrVibe) and at our Facebook Fan Page at “The Dr. Vibe Show” Facebook Fan Page
About “Gimmie One Riddim”:
Gimme One Riddim is presented by TD’s Then and Now 2013 Black History Month Series. It runs from March 13 – 15 at the Winchester Street Theatre, 8 p.m. nightly. Tickets are $25 ($15 before February 19) and can be purchased at http://gimmeoneriddim.eventbrite.ca/
“Gimme One Riddim” features an all Black cast, featuring five male Black dancers; Hollywood Jade, Shavar Blackwood, Roney Lewis, Brandon “Bizzy” Owosu and Irvin Washington.
The show is one hour in length, featuring music from Baba Brooks, Toots & The Maytals, Bob Marley and the Wailers, and top Ska band – The Skatalites. The show is a modern dance production that will also feature film and video elements.
It opens with visual images of the day Jamaica gained independence. It goes in peaks and valleys, from celebrating the joys of freedom, to revealing poverty and oppression, to love, to following dreams, to kick your heels up concert-style performances. While set to music of the 60’s, the movement of “Ska” dances of that time, is incorporated with hip hop and contemporary dance styles.
The African Canadian Legal Clinic, Youth Justice Education Program will host the inaugural Imani Awards at 2 p.m. on February 24, 2013.
The Imani Awards are a celebration of African heritage through a showcase of the victories and accomplishments of African Canadian youth and agencies that service African Canadian youth within the GTA. We will be recognizing these individuals and agencies by awarding them for their continued success in a variety of categories for their hard work and outstanding achievements.
All proceeds from this event will be used in funding a trip to Africa for a group of inner city African Canadian youth. This journey to the motherland will be geared towards connecting these youth to their African Heritage, as well as providing them with an opportunity to assist in community development projects while overseas.
Today at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific, we will be speaking with Mobafa Baker about “The Imani Awards”.
During our live interview, you have the opportunity to call in and share with us and ask questions via Skype. If you would like to do this, please call us at: doctorvibe42. If you get through, please be patient and we will get to your call as soon as possible.
All you need to do listen to the show live is to go The Dr. Vibe Show Homepage at http://thedrvibeshow.com/ tonight at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific. You can also provide your comments and questions during the event via Twitter (@drvibeshow#DrVibe) and at our Facebook Fan Page at “The Dr. Vibe Show” Facebook Fan Page
Event: The Imani Awards
When: February 24, 2013
Time: 2:00 pm
Where: Peter & Paul Banquet Hall at 231 Milner Ave, Scarborough, Ontario (Google Map)
Prices: Single Ticket Price $50.00; Table Price $500.00 (Seats 10)
Michael Holzman“The Black Poverty Cycle and How to End It” by Michael Holzman
Michael Holzman is an independent consultant and writer. He joined The Schott Foundation for Public Education as a research consultant in 2002. Dr. Holzman is the author of the Foundation’s series Public Education and Black Male Students: A State Report Card. He is currently working on a report on opportunities for learning in American public schools for the Schott Foundation and a report on childhood homelessness for the National Center on Family Homelessness. He is an evaluator of the City University of New York’s Black Male Initiative Teachers as Leaders project.
Dr. Holzman has been an advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation’s National Minority Female Single Parent Employment Skills Program, an evaluator and advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation’s teacher professional development initiatives in the arts and humanities in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, and project director of the Bruner Foundation’s evaluation of the New York State Community Schools initiative. With Dr. Jane MacKillop, he designed an adult literacy initiative for Philadelphia and co-edited The Gateway: Paths to Adult Learning, a national literacy program that enabled at least 30,000 adults to learn to read.
Dr. Holzman was a founding Senior Advisor for the Panasonic Foundation, where he participated in the development of the Foundation’s “school-house to statehouse” systemic school reform initiative. His responsibilities at Panasonic included evaluation, analysis, planning and implementation of structural reform and standards-based curricular improvements in school districts from San Diego to Miami, Minneapolis to Baton Rouge and a number of state departments of education.
As Program Officer for Education at the American Council of Learned Societies, Dr. Holzman designed and operated a national humanities teacher development program, which brought outstanding teachers together with world-class scholars at UCLA, the University of Colorado, Harvard and other sites around the country. He created and implemented a teacher exchange program between the United States and China, which improved the English language skills of teachers of English in selective Chinese secondary schools and introduced American teachers and their students to Chinese language and culture.
Dr. Holzman has served as a program director and development officer for a variety of other organizations and as a consultant to a wide variety of educational, arts, legal and public health organizations in the United States, United Kingdom and the Middle East, helping them to raise support for their work. He taught and was an administrator at the University of California and the University of Southern California. He served as director of the California/USC Writing Project (k-12 teacher professional development) and the Model Literacy Program at the University of Southern California.
He is the author of a number of books, articles and reviews in the fields of education, literature, literacy and history. His most recent book, James Jesus Angleton, The CIA and the Craft of Counterintelligence was published in 2008, by the University of Massachusetts Press. He received a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.
During our live interview, you have the opportunity to call in and share with us and ask questions via Skype. If you would like to do this, please call us at: doctorvibe42. If you get through, please be patient and we will get to your call as soon as possible.
All you need to do listen to the show live is to go The Dr. Vibe Show Homepage at http://thedrvibeshow.com/ tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Pacific. You can also provide your comments and questions during the event via Twitter (@drvibeshow#DrVibe) and at our Facebook Fan Page at “The Dr. Vibe Show” Facebook Fan Page
D. Channsin Berry (Chan) is the thought innovator of a new film distribution platform known as, “Film Tours Entertainment”, a concept and global film distribution company he created that connects the new movement of movie premieres of social value to the audience via open dialogue with the director/producer immediately following a screening. “Film Tours” was created as a direct result of a few negative main-stream Hollywood reviews. Mr. Berry felt that “Dark Girls” was a project created to be seen and experienced by African decedents as a springboard for their healing. “My mission in life is to tell our stories from our point of view. It takes Black consciousness to tell our stories the way we need to hear them, and the way we need to see ourselves. It is all about focusing on us as Black people, and we must not allow others to tell us who we are and what we have experienced. I am an image engineer for our people!”
In between his music endeavors, Mr. Berry has directed independent films and documentaries such as, “A Different Shade of Love”,
“My Father’s Music…Jazz” (Documentary for PBS/Cable) and, “The Black Line: Profile of The African-American Man (parts 1, 2, and 3)”. Mr. Berry also produced, “The Sam Cooke Story: Crossing Over”, part of the PBS “American Masters” series, and is currently working on the sequel to “Dark Girls”, titled, “The Yellow Brick Road”, also with Bill Duke. In 2013, Mr. Berry anticipates production of his self- written dramatic feature, “Martin Lane”, starring Oscar nominated actor, Viola Davis and her husband Mr. Julius Tennon.
Mr. Berry has worked in television as Executive Producer/Director on BET’s NY/LA Entertainment Magazine, “All The People”, a talk show in the San Francisco Bay area sponsored by Fox-TV, “Shaq Jam” Hip-Hop concert, sponsored by DirecTV/Fox, “ReMixed”, sponsored by BET, and the Fox entertainment show, “Poker Dome”.
Mr. Berry is the Founder of the D. Channsin Berry Foundation, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to raise funds for LUPUS awareness.
During our conversation, Chan shares about various subjects including:
– Some of his current projects including “The Black Line: Profiles Of The African American Female”, a documentary of gospel singer Tramaine Hawkins and a documentary on the 1970’s & 1980’s R&B group “The Sylvers”
– Some of the artists he has worked with including Prince, Chaka Chan, Rosie Gaines, Nancy Wilson
– The story behind the documentary series “The Black Line”
– What he has found about Black men
– How does he balance his life
– the story behind “Dark Girls”
Ironically, the modern-day gun-rights debate in America was born from the civil rights era and inspired by the Black Panthers. Even more interesting is that is that the National Rifle Association — now an aggressive lobbying arm for gun manufacturers — actually once supported, and helped write, federal gun-control laws. Click on the link below to read more.
From the beginning, America has used violence to solve its problems and it will be a hard cycle to break. Click on the link below to read David A. Love’s take.
