Category Archives: Goodwatch

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

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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

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

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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

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Sherring’s Goodwatch: Malice at The Palace

08/15/2021 by Sherring D.

Though I’m not a huge sports fan (anymore), I do

Categories: Back in the Day, Goodwatch, Listicle, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: Basketball, Documentary, Netflix, Television, TV

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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

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Shows I’m Missing Right Now

12/08/2020 by Sherring D.

I don’t care if the last episode I watched was the season finale or the series finale, I’m missing the characters, plot twists, great dialogue, writing, cinematography, lighting, bomb outfits, enviable hair styles, steamy sex scenes, stuck-in-your-head soundtrack, relatable themes, podcast recaps, WTF moments, and group text chats about these shows.

Categories: Back in the Day, Fabulousness, Goodwatch, Listicle, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Binge-watch, Good watch, Premium Cable, tv shows

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Is This Your King?

11/29/2020 by Sherring D.

Let’s be clear: no actor can fill the shoes of Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther, but Black Panther did not die. Chadwick Boseman an incredible person with a beautiful soul has left us in the physical form. That is who we mourn. His legacy will be with us forever. Today we should celebrate him on what would have been his 44th birthday.

Categories: Goodwatch, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: actor, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, Rest in Peace

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Netflix, HBO and Social Distancing

03/16/2020 by Sherring D.

I love staying home WHEN I WANT TO. Being told to makes me want to get dressed and head out. Get in a good workout at the gym. Catch a movie. Stroll through the aisles of Target. Go for a walk in Central Park just ‘cause, which I’ve never done. Ever. With the exception of grocery shopping on Friday, I’ve been home all week, so I consider Saturday as my first official social distancing day.

Categories: Goodwatch, Uncategorized • Tags: Coronapocolypse, Coronavirus, COVID-19, HBO, health, Netflix, Quarantine, Social Distancing

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Category Archives: Goodwatch

My Experience as a 2021 BET Soul Train Awards Audience Member

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

Sherring’s Goodwatch: Really Love

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

Sherring’s Goodwatch: Malice at The Palace

Sherring’s Goodwatch: Zola

Shows I’m Missing Right Now

Is This Your King?