Limelight Film & Arts Awards 2010
This week, the Limelight Film & Arts Awards will bring the glitz and glamour of the Oscars to the streets of London.This annual short film competition is for London based film makers and the awards ceremony has been planned with exciting performances, celebrity attendees, dignitaries and of course individuals from the film and media industry.It is the...
Tim Westwood on Lee Nelson’s Well Good
Brace yourselves for “proper mad” fun as irrepressible South London geeza Lee "Nelsy" Nelson fronts his Well Good Show. Check him out here trying his luck with the ladies with Radio One DJ legend Westwood.In his show Nelsy, the creation of critically-acclaimed character comedian Simon Brodkin, gets in among the excitable studio audience in this brand new show, entertaining...
DJ Longers Long Talking
Checkout the brand new documentary about the No1 Rapper right now DRAKE and the trailers from the next in the MEET THE FOCKERS Trilogy and more!DRAKE DOCUMENTARY By the same team who put together Jay Z's Fade To Black documentary, check out the Hottest Rapper Right NOW, Drake in the lead up to the...
Style Spy Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez may have come a long way from the block, but J is still rockin' the bling that made us envy the rocks that she's got. Pile on the glamour to excess. Flavour spies that style.Page created by Sarah Jane Adams
Into The Hoods Preview
Akai Osei is the 10-year old dance sensation who scooped the £100,000 prize of the Sky1’s competition Got to Dance in February 2010. Having only been dancing for a year, the Kent school boy started dance classes when his sister wanted to learn to street dance and wowed the judges – including his hero Ashley Banjo from street dancing...
ACS Kings and Queens 2010 winners announced
ACS Kings and Queens, an inter university beauty pageant was held on Sunday 20th June at Ocean Music Venue in Hackney. The competition saw young women and men from 8 different universities compete for the title and Peter of Hertfordshire ACS and Nicholette of Bedfordshire ACS were crowned ACS King and Queen 2010 after 5 rounds which included an...
Style Spy Ciara
RNB singer Ciara isn't just sexy, she redefines sexy and while she's tearing up the airwaves with her current single Ride she is also making waves in the style stakes. Tomboy Ciara injects her passion for dance into her street inspired wardrobe.Page created by Sarah Jane Adams
Kissing Frogs part 7
Every fortnight Zowie Edwards will be regaling Flavour readers with her dating tales from the Urban Jungle…….If last column’s date surprised me by being a million times yummier in the flesh than a two dimensional photo could ever suggest, this fortnight’s guy had, sadly, the exact opposite effect.Note to all internet daters: Be extremely wary of black-and-white photos. They...
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at World Premiere of ‘Raavan’,
The Red Carpet was rolled out to welcome Indian cinema royalty and off-screen couple, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, as they brought the height of glamour to London’s cultural hotspot, BFI, Southbank, London SE1 on Wednesday 16th June 2010 at the World Premiere of ‘Raavan’, a darkly intense film that invites audiences into a new world order. The...
Make a video mash-up for Red Bull X-Fighters and win a trip to Rome!
Red Bull and Dave TV are calling on the UK’s aspiring editors and filmmakers to take Red Bull’s archive of X-Fighters footage, images and sounds to create a high-energy mash-up that gets the adrenaline pumping for the Red Bull X-Fighters event in London.The winner will be Red Bull’s VIP guests at the two remaining stops of the X-Fighters World...
Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Award winner Louise Broni-Mensah’s ticketing idea
A young entrepreneur from London has scooped a national award after setting up a business that provides a digital ticketing solution for niche entertainment event organisers. Shoobs enables event organisers of all sizes the ability to set up an online ticketing, promotion and a social media platform to connect people to London’s most vibrant, hippest events.Louise Broni-Mensah, aged 27,...
The Wendy Williams show is heading to BET UK!
American chat show host Wendy Williams hit London this week and Flavour headed down to the Soho Hotel to find out all about her chat show, which is winging its way to our screens on BET this summer.For those who don’t know (and ya really should), Wendy is a notorious DJ/ presenter/ best selling author who loves digging the...
Flavour Editor Judges Live and Unsigned
Flavour Magazine's editor Annika Allen joins the Live and Unsigned panel as a guest judge, where she will decide who out of the pop and urban category will be crowned the winner at the UK's largest music competition for unsigned artists. A battle of the bands and singers competition like no other. The Live and Unsigned Festival is an...
Gadgets
Sony Ericsson MBW Bluetooth Watches Sony Ericsson’s MBW range of Bluetooth watches for men and women, created together with experts in watch technology Fossil, have brought together contemporary design and innovative Bluetooth technology to give you the convenience of controlling your phone from your wristwatch. You don’t have to fumble around in your back pocket or bag for your mobile...
Kissing Frogs part 6
Every fortnight Zowie Edwards will be regaling Flavour readers with her dating tales from the Urban Jungle…….I’m getting rather au fait with this dating malarkey now. Whereas 12 weeks ago the thought of an intimate chat with some guy I’d never met before terrified me to my very core, I’m now at the stage where I’m relishing the chance...
Zowie Edwards’ Tips from the Urban Dating Jungle
Flavour columnist Zowie Edwards went on ten dates to test the internet dating waters and report back to Flavour readers on London’s single male population (it was a tough job, but someone had to do it!). Fans of the column will know her antics saw her get drunk and walk into the side of a tube train, have issues...
Sucker Punch: Boxing up the Court
Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square is undergoing somewhat of a renovation. Having developed a reputation for producing some of the best new work in London the award winning venue is gearing up to produce Roy Williams latest play Sucker Punch, which will involve a major reconstruction with the main Jerwood Theatre stage being transformed into a boxing...
It’s A Steal! Weleda Win 9 Beauty Awards For Top Value
Green beauty pioneer Weleda is celebrating another clutch of accolades for its natural bodycare range, this time de-bunking the myth that organic products are expensive. Weleda’s latest crop proves that natural beauty products definitely don’t cost the earth! 9 award-winning products have been voted Beauty Bible Beauty Steals.Over the past 13 years, since publication of their first book The...
ACS Kings & Queens: Jacqstar
Jacqui James, 20, maybe studying sociology but she’s revealing her creative sidethrough fashion with her emerging label Jacqstar. Here we talk to the south Londoner about her entry as a designer in ACS Kings and Queens – an inter-university beauty pageant.Why did you enter ACS Kings and Queens?: I entered ACS Kings and Queens initially because a friend recommended...
Soul Mavericks win Sony Ericsson’s UK B-Boy Championships
Last night the National Qualifiers of the Sony Ericsson B-Boy Championships took place at London's Islington Academy. Crews from across the country came together to compete for the highly coveted title of National Champions.Soul Mavericks took the title after a spectacular showdown in the final against London crew La Familia, who came runners-up.Through their b-boy moves Soul Mavericks didn’t...
ACS Kings & Queens: Blaque Dot
Leona Simms is the force behind the label Blaque Dot and says: ‘Good luck to all the contestants in ACS Kings and Queen’s I am sure the best person will win.’ To find out who that will be you will have to get down to the event but before that lets find out little bit more about Leona.Tell me...
ACS Kings and Queens: L’AKOT
London College of Fashion graduate Brenda Slot has teamed up with students of Kingston University to showcase the designs of her brand L’AKOT at the ACS Kings and Queens inter-university beauty pageant.What are your thoughts on the event? I did it last year and applied again, so that should answer it for you.How would you describe the style of the...
Reggae Gold 2010 goes football world cup
Gyptian’s chartopping single Hold You, Busy Signal’s romantic tune Sweet Love (Night Shift), As We Enter from the Distant Relatives Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley and Nas, Major Lazer featuring Mr. Lex and Santigold Hold the Line and Skip to Ma Luu by Serani featuring Ding Dong. Reggae Gold are just some of the hot tracks featured on the latest...
Get the look with America Ferrera
America Ferrera stars in a new hilarious comedy called Our Family Wedding. In this clash-of-cultures comedy, two overbearing dads must put their differences aside to plan the wedding of their son and daughter in less than two weeks."Our marriage, their wedding." It's lesson number one for any newly engaged couple, Lucia (America Ferrera) and Marcus (Lance Gross) are no...
Flavour at the Capital FM Summer Ball
Yesterday Flavour headed down to get all the backstage and performance gossip from the Capital FM Summer Ball at Wembley. With There ridiculously hot headliners including Usher, JLS, Cheryl Cole, Rihanna and Tinie Tempah this was guaranteed to be an event not to be missed.Usher kicked off the action performing hits like Caught Up. He stepped things up a...
Young & Ambitious: Jusi
Jusi (pronounced Jus – I), is a lively, vibrant, entrepreneurial young performer, who strives to become a role model amongst his peers. Jusi has gone on to perform at some of the most prestigious venues across London, gaining a wealth of acting and dancing experience along the way.Jusi’s dancing work is extensive and further testament to his versatility, and...
Win tickets to Into the Hoods
11 year-old street dance sensation Akai, who won the popular Sky 1 Got to Dance contest in February 2010, will follow in the footsteps of Britain’s Got Talent winner George Sampson, when he joins the cast of Into the Hoods at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall this summer.From 30 July – 15 August, Akai will play a lead role...
Tom Cruise shows off his hip hop dance moves
Tom Cruise can sometimes come across as uptight and in the past I have wondered if he even knows how to have fun but his performance with Jennifer Lopez at the MTV Movie Awards yesterday proved that he actually does have a sense of humor. As his wife Katie Holmes cheered him on he showed off his hip hop...
Death at a Funeral review
Death at a Funeral is the new comedy from director Neil LaBute (The Wicker Man) starring Chris Rock , Martin Lawrence, James Marsden (X Men), Luke Wilson to Danny Glover and Zoe Saldana (Avatar).If the film title sounds a bit familiar then that’s because it’s a remake of the British Frank Oz movie of the same name. However...
A Million Dollar Smile for National Smile Month!
Get the L.A look with a bright white straight smile. How you ask? Well those clever people at Lumineers by Cerinate have a new technological breakthrough! An injection free painless veneer the size of a contact lens, so forget the old methods of grinding the teeth down; these little gems can be applied directly over your teeth for an...