Category Archives: Fabulousness

My Experience as a 2021 BET Soul Train Awards Audience Member

11/22/2021 by Sherring D.

After being away from the Apollo for over a year, I found myself returning two consecutive weeks. Last week, November 12, I attended my second Smart, Funny and Black show created and hosted by Amanda Seales. This week was the taping of the 2021 BET Soul Train Awards. Check-in/holding rooms for what as far as I could tell was an all-Black audience was at the Magic Johnson theater on 124th St. The actual show was taped a short jaunt on 125th St. at the legendary Apollo. Recap: Harlem, Magic Johnson Theater, black audience, BET, Soul Train Awards, Apollo Theater. Blackity Black Black event.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodwatch, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Apollo, Award Show, BET, Live Entertainment, music, R&B Soul, Soul Train Awards

Leave a comment

Woke Fam Back in the House for Smart, Funny, and Black

11/13/2021 by Sherring D.

Smart, Funny, and Black returned to the Apollo as part of the weeklong New York Comedy Festival. Last night’s Blacksperts were the hilarious Tituss Burgess (he can sang!) and Michelle Buteau. They both came onstage decked out in yellow. They said it was unplanned. Amanda Seales was backed by her band, The Clapbacks.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodwatch, Random Thoughts, Try New Things • Tags: Apollo, comedy, Live Entertainment, Sher Date, Show

Moseying and Being Bamboozled

10/28/2021 by Sherring D.

On Wednesday, October 27, 2021, I moseyed on down to The Center for Fiction for book talk between comedian Roy Wood, Jr. and actress/comedian Yvonne Orji about her book Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: Author Events, Book Events, Books, memoirs, reading

Amistad’s 35th Anniversary Celebration

10/20/2021 by Sherring D.

I just attended a wonderful virtual book event: Amistad Book’s 35th Anniversary celebration!

It was an exclusive, invitation-only event that yours truly scored an ticket to. There I was, minding my business (really minding everyone else’s business) in these Instagram streets when I was tagged to a post.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Try New Things • Tags: Books, fiction, Goodreads, History, Nonfiction, Publishing

Sherring’s Goodwatch: Really Love

09/06/2021 by Sherring D.

Set in DC, Really Love is a love story centered around Isaiah Maxwell (Kofi Siriboe), a struggling artist (a painter), who falls in love with Stevie Solomon (Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing), a law school student with affluent parents. His parents nag him to get a real job, while her parents are less than ecstatic about her union with Isaiah. The two first crossed paths, briefly, while attending an art show for Isaiah’s artist friend played by Michael Ealy. When they meet again, officially, they discover that they share mutual friends in a couple. Stevie is friends with the girlfriend played by Jade Eshete (who is absolutely gorgeous). Isaiah is friends with a character played by Tristan “Mack” Wilds.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodwatch, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: #BlackLove, Black Love, Black Love Story, Black Romance, film, Kofi Siriboe, love story, Movie, Netflix, Really Love, Romance

Leave a comment

Sherring’s Goodwatch: Shakespeare in the Park’s Merry Wives

08/19/2021 by Sherring D.

Merry Wives is based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, which I never had to read for school (or heard of). The usual syllabus suspects in high school and college were Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest, Twelfth Night…but I digress. The remixed adaptation by Jocelyn Bioh centers around Nigerian (the Fords) and Ghanaian (the Pages) immigrant families living in Harlem, trying to agree on marriage terms for their daughter and nephew. The supporting cast involves a Senegalese doctor, and the sole American character Falstaff, a native Harlemite. There’s a twist that the audience, but not the families, are privy to.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodwatch, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Arts & Culture, Broadway, Central Park, Live Entertainment, Plays, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the Park

Leave a comment

Sherring’s Goodreads: The Vanishing Half

07/15/2021 by Sherring D.

The Vanishing Half is an intriguing novel about identical twin sisters, Stella and Desiree. The two are born and raised in the fictional town of Mallard, Louisiana, which was founded by their great-great-great grandfather after being freed by his master-father. The girls have creamy skin, hazel eyes, wavy hair and dreams of leaving their small hometown. They do so at the age of sixteen and run away to New Orleans. From there, their lives take on drastically different paths.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love, Black Love Books, book review, Books, fiction, Goodreads, Historical Fiction, novel, reading, Twins

Leave a comment

Sherring’s Goodwatch: Zola

07/02/2021 by Sherring D.

The movie was all types of ridiculous–in a good way. Based on a Twitter thread of 100+ tweets, it follows a Detroit waitress named Zola (played by Taylor Paige) who gets roped into taking a roadtrip down to Florida for the weekend on a quest to make a quick payday stripping.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodwatch, Uncategorized • Tags: movie review, movie theater, movies, Sher Date, solo date, Zolo

Leave a comment

Sherring’s Goodreads: Pretty Brown Eyes

06/30/2021 by Sherring D.

In Pretty Brown Eyes, a novella, Mescia meets Alex on her way home from celebrating her parents’ 40th wedding anniversary. All of Mescia’s sisters are either married or engaged. Not her. She’s still reeling from the end of her three-year relationship with ex-boyfriend Devon. Thank goodness she lets down her guard and receives the real treatment (and sex) she deserves and craves.

Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Love, Black Romance, Book Reaction, Erotica, fiction, Goodreads, love story, Novella, review, Romance

← Older posts

Just Sherring

Reviews, Random Thoughts & Other Fabulousness

Category Archives: Fabulousness

My Experience as a 2021 BET Soul Train Awards Audience Member

Woke Fam Back in the House for Smart, Funny, and Black

Moseying and Being Bamboozled

Amistad’s 35th Anniversary Celebration

Sherring’s Goodwatch: Really Love

Sherring’s Goodwatch: Shakespeare in the Park’s Merry Wives

Sherring’s Goodreads: The Vanishing Half

Sherring’s Goodwatch: Zola

Sherring’s Goodreads: Pretty Brown Eyes