Monthly Archives: December 2011
Celebrity Sighting:Kim Zolciak & NFL Hubby Kroy Biermann In Chicago!
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak hung out at Spin Nightclub with NFL hubby Kroy Biermann.
Photo Source:Spin
Interview: Elle Varner – Music, Life, & More!
1. How has your style changed from living in Los Angeles to now being a New York City girl?
I was the chubby nerd. I was so uncool it wasn’t even funny. It blows my mind when people are like, “Oh, your style is so great.” It is like night and day. It’s a recent thing because I was heavy growing up, I had really low self-esteem. In junior high, it was not cool to have glasses—four eyes. Now even people that don’t wear glasses get them. I didn’t look anything like I do now. When I finished school I started taking my health more seriously and I lost weight. I could wear stuff I couldn’t wear before and I felt more confident. You should feel confident regardless of what size you are, but in my journey it wasn’t until I broke that cycle of low esteem that I began to care. Style isn’t about what you’re wearing—it’s about how you feel in what you’re wearing.
2. What message are you trying to get across with your debut album Perfectly Imperfect?
[The title] piggybacks off of my song “So Fly.” That’s a song I wrote in school, which literally attacks the situation where I like a guy and he’s not paying attention to me because he’s looking at some pretty girl. Through that song, I just say, “Forget it. I am who I am and that’s why I’m fly.” Not because I have this, that, or the third. Perfectly Imperfect embodies the concept of embracing your imperfections. And even on the album, there were so many mistakes and slip-ups that we kept. And that was perfectly imperfect.
3. What was it like working with J. Cole in the video for “Only Wanna Give It to You”?
We had so much fun. It was crazy because that was my first video and I quickly learned that when you have a treatment and all of these scenes, even with all the people working, there’s a lot we forget to do and there is so much going on that by the time he was supposed to leave at 9, we didn’t get a scene together. And it made sense to have one. He had to leave; he had to go to Miami the next day, but he stayed to do the scene. We did the playful thing where he gave me the shoes in the scene and threw it on the floor. It was fun.
Church’s Chicken Shooting Leaves 2 Dead & 4 Wounded On 66th & Halsted!
Two people were killed and four others wounded when shots rang out at a fast-food restaurant in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side this evening, authorities said.
The shooting occurred about 6:50 p.m. at a Church’s Chicken near 66th and Halsted Streets, authorities said. Two were dead on scene, police and fire officials said. Four people were taken to hospitals in critical condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
A 58-year-old man with several gunshot wounds and 17-year-old boy were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn; a 16-year-old boy and a 51-year-old man were taken to Stroger Hospital.
The people who died were in the area of the restaurant where customers pick up their food, one person at the scene said.
Friends of a 17-year-old boy who was killed arrived at the scene around 8 p.m., screaming in agony.
“This is so crazy. This is so crazy,” said LaToia Brown, who said the victim had dated her daughter off and on for years.
LaToia Brown said the teen had called her mama and often rode his bike to her house to see if she needed anything from the store. “That baby was definitely a good kid,” she said, trying to hold back tears. “I loved everything about my baby.”
Brown said the boy’s cousin called to tell her he had been killed.
“I got up here as soon as I could, as soon as I hung up the phone,” she said.
LaToia Brown’s 16-year-old daughter, Diamond, said she and the victim were good friends and said he was always supportive and tried to lift everyone’s spirit.
“He was a great big brother to my brothers and sisters,” Diamond Brown said, tears welling in her eyes.
