Los Angeles - June 2007 - This July, Scion commences the fourth installment of the innovative Scion Installation Art Tour entitled: ‘It’s A Beautiful World.’ The theme; “It’s a Beautiful World” was interpreted by each artist, in one of four mediums - painting, photography, sculpture, and collage. This year’s Installation tour will visit […]
Walking Back To Houston continues Scion’s celebration of cutting edge art. The show, curated by Union, features three diverse artists, CLOS, ROB ABEYTA JR and ZY$. Uniquely, only one of the three, Rob Abeyta Jr. has an already established reputation in the traditional art world. He has done graphic design, as well as art directing […]
Los Angeles “ Nov. 20, 2006 “ Scion is proud to announce the Scion INSTALLATION 3 Art Show Tour culminating for the first time in Miami Beach during Art Basel. Launched in 2003, Scion INSTALLATION is a revolutionary art tour affirming Scion’s ongoing commitment to support independent artistic _expression. Now in its third […]
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Hip Hop founder gets prison time
Jul. 6, 2006 at 1:05PM
1970s black consciousness activist, Gil Scott Heron, was sentenced to
two to four years in Queens Supreme Court for violating a plea deal on a
drug charge.
Heron violated the deal by leaving the drug treatment center he was
placed in, the New York Post reported Thursday.
The 56-year-old musician, […]
Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith will participate in Charles “Charlie Mack” Alston’s 3rd Annual Charlie Mack Celebrity Weekend, a series of charity events taking place in Smith and Mack’s hometown of Philadelphia July 21-23. Mack, who was co-producer of Atl and a legendary Philadelphia promoter who has served as Smith’s long time […]
The story comes at you with hurricane force and an irresistible title, “How to Beat a Child in the Right and Proper Way.” It is the creation of the Jamaican writer Colin Channer, who is also the editor of “Iron Balloons,” an anthology of a new kind of Jamaican writing published by Akashic Books in […]