Elf The Musical Review by Ali

It's the Story of Buddy the Elf..... the story of Buddyyyyyyyyyyy the Elf..... cute little number...

Do you want to feel good, jingle bell ringing, dancing in the streets and some singing...?
 WEll then you need a holiday musical...
 Elf is it especially if you are feeling grinchy this holiday season. And NO, it is not a remake of the Movie Elf with Will Ferrell, or so I was told. And I cant say if that is good or bad, because …… I never saw Elf the movie.... I know shocking right?


Maybe you don't believe in fairytales or Santa, who by the way is quite humorous and clever and hip to new technology. He no longer uses Reindeer to power his sled!!!
Who knew.... This new age stuff is throwing me off. The writers Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin were quite creative...they decided why not power the sled with feelings and with the belief in the Holiday and Santa?
Well there should be more than enough of that good stuff right? How fitting the setting is in NYC.. the imagery of a bustling, non caring, sharp tongue, impatient place like NY definitely would need some help conjuring up that holiday spirit... and Buddy would soon find out.

Buddy, The Elf,. played by Eric Williams has a life story all his own. It's clear, he is not one of Santa's elves, but he lives on the North Pole with Santa, Ms. Claus and the other elves..
So where was he from and how did he end up in the North Pole?
An inquisitive guy he is as well..... rather clumsy too.. So when he hears other elves talking about him and saying he didn't belong it was no surprise he wanted to find his own way...
Where will his journey take him?

Get ready for some interesting yet typical family, societal and work dynamics...with a TWIST!!.

Life lessons are learned, hearts and minds are changed and you will be singing and bopping your head to this one.
Kudos to all the performers and extra kudos to Michael Hobbs played by Grady Miranda.. He has an amazing voice for a young kid.
 If you are a fan of musicals and want to lift your spirits I say check out Elf the musical...
 I give it a Ali-PEACHY

Ratings:

BAM - Great! Go see it

PEACHY - amusing & pleasurable

HUMDRUM - Ehhh...

RUBBISH - well it's Rubbish

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Revival The Movie Review by Ali

Is a theatrical musical, and a movie dramatization of Jesus Christ crucifixion and resurrection as told in the book of John (yep New Testatment). Yep literally a movie and musical all in one... 

The writer took points from the Bible and infused it with new modern logic and reasoning, fear and doubt...
The movie was filled with a host of special artists with different talents..

It was interesting, to watch the story unfold and see flecks of the old Testament and new Testament intertwined.
Obviously, this is a big religion film about faith and belief or lack there of of Jesus Christ. 

 How do we view him and the lessons that we've been taught today, as compared to how they were viewed and how it was taught to us from the Bible in older days or as we were growing up?  

There were some looming questions for me from the film...  

Do we still believe the way we were taught, 

and if we do believe the way, we were taught WHY, do we still believe..?

Is faith... Still blind faith?
Are we wicked if we need to see it to believe it... 

I mean even Heinz says seeing is believing right??? (little attempt at humor)

Can you be a free thinker and still believe in Christ...?

All in all it was an interesting way to share the story..a bit long.. And It is a bit confusing in the beginning,  but somewhat intriguing to figure out where the movie will go. 

It's a religious believers feel good movie and you get to see a lot of stars.. 

and the FLIP...

It's a non religious persons piece of work promoting more in depth discussions around what and why we believe. 

Sooooooo…...

I give it an Ali Peachy

Ratings:
BAM - Great! Go see it
PEACHY - Amusing & Pleasurable
HUMDRUM - Ehhh...wait for Netflix
RUBBISH - Well it's Rubbish

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YOGA YOGA YOGA by Ali

Quick Level 1 Guide to get you rockin and rollin!
Yoga- what is it?
Why do it?
Why not?

Yoga has become a way of life for me.  It is more than just physical moves, it is mental and spiritual.
It is a means to be silent without practicing being silent….
It became a way to channel my energy without saying I’m channeling my energy.

Some moves are true Yoga asanas and some are just moves you begin to try as you challenge your body and those are great because you get to unleash our creativity.

A great myth Buster is there is  one size for yoga... **LIES**.  Even if you tend to see really small and in shape people on SM and commercials, please know Yoga is for everyone.  So don’t wait to start because you feel you need to drop weight or get in great shape first.
Yoga is very helpful in burning those pounds away!!

Just so you know yoga wasn’t something I gravitated to right away.  Actually, my personal trainer, who ironically, was a very muscular guy suggested it to me.  And I was like… ehhhhh… This was only 5 years ago.  Well I didn’t start practicing consistently until around 2016/2017.....  And let me tell you it has made me really channel all the areas of my senses. I can relieve stress, create calm in my mind and feel better….

And that is why I do it?

So, if you are just getting into yoga for whatever reason, here are some beginner poses you can try.
The trick is to be consistent and practice and push through some of the pains you will experience as you retrain your body, your mind and your soul.

So let’s get to the Yoga poses  -  ie. Asanas
Ideally hold any of these poses 30 secs to 2 mins or more.
The main key is *REMEMBER TO BREATHE!!*

Level 1
Childs pose – called Balasana
Child's Pose helps to stretch the hips, thighs, and ankles.  It is known to aid in reducing stress and fatigue. It is a resting pose. This is a pose you can visit often especially when learning advanced poses and as a transition pose.

Extended Puppy pose – called Uttana Shishosana
Extended Puppy (or Melting heart) is a mix between Downward facing Dog and Child’s Pose encourages you to drop your heart to the ground and stretch out your spine upward and downward.  This helps with creating and training the hollow back.

Cow Pose – called Bitilasana
Cow Pose is great for warming up the spine it stretches the front torso and neck
Great starter to loosen up
.

Cat Pose -  called Marjaryasana
Cat Pose is a balancing pose that helps strengthen the core muscles (who doesn’t want that!!) and lengthens the spine. It stretches the back torso and neck.

Cobra –  called Bhujangasana
Cobra is — is a the pose that helps to prepare the body for deeper backbends. Its name comes from It Strengthens the spine, chest area, shoulders, and abdomen. If you clinch it can help firm the buttocks. This pose can also aid in relieve stress and fatigue. Cobra and Upward Dog are similar. My pose is a mix.  Once you raise your hips you are more in an upward facing dog position.

Downward facing dog – called Adho Mukha Svanasana
Downward Dog is a pose that introduces the invert.  It is a great full body stretch pose from toes, calfs, hamstrings, quads, glutes, back, shoulders and arms and it helps build strength.

Take as much time as needed to work on these poses.  The goal is to hold them at least 30 seconds.  Which is a great workout in itself.

Remember to breath and open up your body to each pose.
Yoga will help increase your flexibility, circulation and strength and so much more!!
Enjoy these!

Namaste!

Ali
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Purgatory Red Carpet 2018

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About TONIGHT!! Another Edition of B.A.M. Radio IN THESE STREETS covering red carpet and QA at the Premiere of Purgatory film!!! What a success and For a short film it was soooo PACKED with thought provoking situations!!! Producer- Charles W Bush, Director/Writer - Malcolm X. Johnson, Actresses Heather Laine, Melissa H and Teekoyah Nickson and a whole Crew!! ...more footage coming... #purgatory #shortfilms #whereisBAM

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IARR RED CARPET Interviews at SIP Breast Cancer Awareness Fashion Show

bamradiowaliI AM ROYALTY RADIO RED CARPET interview at Sisters in Power Breast Cancer Awareness Fashion Show with Panelist and 8 yr Survivor April SAmuels.. #sistersinpower #breastcancer #survivors #IARR #iamroyaltyradio #wheresAli #cancerawareness #redcarpethosts #playingwitheditingthemes

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I AM ROYALTY RADIO RED CARPET interview at Sisters in Power Breast Cancer Awareness Fashion Show with Panelist and 8 yr Survivor April SAmuels.. #sistersinpower #breastcancer #survivors #IARR #iamroyaltyradio #wheresAli #cancerawareness #redcarpethosts #playingwitheditingthemes

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I Am Royalty Radio @iamroyaltyradio Red Carpet Hosts at @sisters_in_power Sisters In Power Breast Cancer Awareness Event in Dallas! Interview with Samyria @samyriathemodel one of the junior models and she RIPPED it and she has a fab personality!!! I decided to come to her for the interview and then post runway show.. A Seat on the Red Carpet with Ali... Yep it was dope... #hireus #weworking #sistersinpower #iamroyaltyradio #IARR #cancerawareness #cancersurvivor #cancer #redcarpet #hosts

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@sisters_in_power Sisters in Power Breast Cancer Awareness event @iamroyaltyradio IARR Red Carpet hosts and Media Partner #IARR #sistersinpower #dallas

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Green Book Movie Review by Ali

Not another race movie.... is it?

This is a story taken from the plagued memories of the early 1960's when race was very heightened in the US.  Where race division was not a surprise but a normality.  Where the lines were not as blurred....as they are today..

Mahershala Ali as Dr. Shirley a cultured, prestigious black piano player and Viggo Mortenson as Tony Lip, low to middle class Italian bouncer from the streets in the Bronx.  An unlikely pair who tackle the strains of race differences that.... are actually the same.

They embark on a journey, neither expected with slight role reversals from what we are used to seeing on the big screen.  The film uncovers historical factoids most of the world will either never experience or possibly hear about.  The inclusion of the infamous Green Book was introduced at such a pivotal time, in my opinion, well with all that is going on in the States.

What a way to shed light on an era that took over where slavery supposedly left off and equality was supposed to be assumed in it's stead... Right!... Oh did I mutter that... 

The Green Book was an actual guide book for blacks or anyone traveling with blacks to follow in the deep south.  What Hotels they could stay in, restaurants to eat in, city curfews etc....  It was critical to adhere to these rules or suffer the consequences.

The trip they take is an entanglement of emotions, compromise, laughter, survival, prejudices, family, humiliation, truths, lies and friendship.

I did find it interesting how they chose to interject sexuality into the film.. Watch and share your thoughts?

Anyway... The film was a myriad of emotions for me as a black person sitting in a mixed theater, wondering what others take was, what lit a fire or didn't... and would any deep discussions, enlightenment and positive change follow.  I hope so.

One of my favorite quotes - "It Takes courage to change peoples hearts.."

Official Release date 11/16/2018...

Rating: I Give it an Ali - BAM

Go check it out!!

Ratings:
BAM - Great! Go see it

HUMDRUM - Ehhh...

RUBBISH - well it's Rubbish

Kevin Hart & Tiffany Haddish in Night School Movie Review by Ali

Ya'll can I say Stone Cold Blast!!!
What can you say when you've got a combination like Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish in one movie at the same time!! and Directed by Malcolm D. Lee!
It's an ACE!

Big shout out to Kevin Hart for the Pre Pre Screening in Dallas Texas on 9/11.  And huge Kudos to  Kevin for making an appearance at the screening and sharing with the audience what this film meant to him on an educational level as well as marking ANOTHER first for this Comedian/Actor.  That's right Night School is the first film produced under his own Production company Hartbeat Productions!!
(applause applause)
Cool thing they did was post up about 8 huge, bigger than life posters, around Dallas and if you found them, you got VIP seating for the show.  Now how cool is that.  So if you saw those bbig yellow posters this prescreening was it..
On top of that Kevin made appearances all around Dallas, Tx including some of the local high schools.  What a real treat for the Kiddos!

So now on the movie.
Now we have all seen comedies and liked them.. Right Right..... Well this one here hit it on so many cylinders.  It was super funny, but tack on all the LIFE elements and situations and personalities and stereotypes.. (wipes brow)  I tell you they killed it.

Many people like to go to a film and not get hit with cultural and social awareness messages.  But this hits EVERYONES home in some fashion. Every character played a role we can relate to or we know someone who can.
From the loud mouth bad kid in school, to the super smart sibling, to the unforgiving parents, wanna be drop outs, immigrants and young parents, snippy take no stuff teachers and EGO driven, half witted adults... (Wow!! that's a lot) You get a story that while some scenes were silly ridiculous, it was not so farfetched.

This comedy was well thought out, funny and an eye opener about how we view people, how we treat people, honesty, trust, values etc....

I think it is a win win and a good one to see if you have that teen or are that adult who may be thinking about taking the easy road.  
Don't Quit and Don't Doubt yourself!!!

Kevin Hart's Night School Opens NationWide on 9/28/18.  
Get your ticket and support!!

Rating: I Give it an Ali - PEACHY

Ratings:
BAM - Great! Go see it
PEACHY - amusing & pleasurable

HUMDRUM - Ehhh...

RUBBISH - well it's Rubbish

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Fort Worth Indie Showcase 2018

The Fort Worh Indie Film Showcase was another HUGE success.  Year 5 goes down in the books with a bang and next year is already under way!

200 films 3 days all in Fort Worth at the Norris Conference Center, which wasa great location.
Awesome job to Bill Hass and the board for the exceptional work this year.  Selecting the films,bringing in filmmakers, organizing an event of this magnitude was refresingto see.

I Am Royalty Radio was in the building as the film showcase official media partners.  Check out the interviews, videos and movie review.


Showcase and Movie review by Isaac McCoy - IARR Affiliate
At my first “INSERT NAME”, in its 5 th year, I was able to spend an afternoon experiencing artistic
creations of writers, directors, and actors expressed via motion picture.
There were over 200 films shown over the three-day festival and one block of short films stood out to
me. Each film was approximately 8 – 12 minutes long and depicted stories of the complex and unmet
needs of American Veterans and their friends and family. Each story touched on the issues too many of
our veterans and their loved ones struggle to confront and overcome - PTSD, grieving and coping with
the loss of a fallen soldier, and transition to civilian life. These films did not shy away from these issues
and it made the viewers, at least it did for me, ask oneself, what can I do to help.
As each film had a unique story arc, the film entitled, Brother, took a murder mystery approach to tell
the story of how loved ones deal with the loss of a fallen soldier. It began with an FBI investigation
centered around the murder of Iraqi citizens by an American battalion stationed in Iraq. These American
solders were accused of a “revenge murder” after a member of their battalion, their brother, was
murdered by an improvised explosive device (IED).
FBI agents enters the home of a member of that battalion to question him about the events that took
place in Iraq. As the soldier articulates the life of a soldier and the bonds of brotherhood, he finds ways
to insinuate one of the FBI agents, a non-military man, doesn’t have the experience to understand
where he is coming from, thus directing his responses to the second FBI agent, a woman war veteran. As
the soldier makes a case for the rules of justice can not be applied the same in all situations, the FBI
agents argue justice should be is equal and fair. At the end of this exchange, I am sure the audience
joined me in asking the question, is justice equal and fair?
The storyline resumes when the female FBI agent meets the soldier at a restaurant where their
conversation is acknowledged to be off-the-record. The first plot twist comes in as the FBI agent reveals
the American solder killed by the IED is her brother. This builds on the bond established in the first
scene, both are war veterans, allowing the soldier to open up about the motives and events resulting
from the death of his fellow soldier and her brother. This scene walks you through how ugly war can be
and the mindset of soldiers who experience war. As this scene fades, I began to wonder who I side with,
FBI agents or the soldier. I assume many of my fellow onlookers were grappling with the same dilemma.
The next scene opens with the female FBI agent laying in bed discussing the case with someone, a male
who is off scene. The male enters the scene, and to my surprise it is her partner. As I am trying to wrap
my head around this romantic relationship, the female agent picks up her phone and the screen has a
voice recording of her off-the-record conversation with the soldier. As her partner is convinced the
soldier is guilty of revenge murder, she is holding the phone, in moral conflict, deciding whether to press
play or delete. I already divulged enough of the short film so I won’t spoil the ending, but this film
masterfully took its viewers on a journey through the mindset of soldiers while in combat, to the often
difficult transition of reintegrating into civilian life while coping with he lost of a fallen soldier, in only a
matter of minutes.
The writer, director, and actors did a great job of character develop and getting a message across and I

will tell you, it was well received.

My Circle....

This morning...I was looking at stuff on the web etc..., reflecting on my life, my dreams and ALL my Failures, and thought about how much we could do if we worked together...

I Learned to just do it/Get it done when I was growing up so that left no room for being patient. For allowing others to stand in their truth (good or bad) and be accountable or create a space to nurture them for their own growth. That mindset didnt allow for naturally relying on people and selecting the proper companions..(made me think of failed relationships and missed accomplishments etc.....what it taught was dont wait on anyone ..do it all yourself...
The End result was the only goal..
But in reality.. we cant do it all ourselves.. eventually we need a team... a circle...
I see quite a bit of shadieness in this place called 'friends or circles' sooo I decided to put my definition into words...

What does Circle mean to me..
My circle... by my basic definition...
A circle of not only like minds & concepts.. but with different approaches, Beliefs are not identical but goals are..
A circle that accepts & nurtures what the others bring to the table
A circle that truly respects and does not heinously use or disparage one another
A circle that collaborates,  communicates & holds one another accountable to build..power comes in numbers not silo solos..
A circle that appreciates one another
A circle that is dedicated to shining light on one another for the world to see
A circle that not only talks..but executes
A circle that understands if this is built right...there is no END Result..because the legacy we build goes on and on..
(*hits the surface)
When did we lose this concept...or did we ever truly have it and understand it..??
Maybe that's why it is harder to attain....
#WheresAli #A2C #AliThoughts

WAYO Kings and Queens Servant Fundraiser Gala of Galas!!!

Giving is the most beautiful thing in the world and WAYO - Where Are You Outreach gave a tremendous honor to the Honoree Servants of the People for their ongoing contributions in the streets of Dallas.
The Fundraising Gala was set up for nothing less than royalty including a great meal and silent auction. Letitia Owen's Founder of WAYO along with a host of others including Michael Hollywood Hernandez, Duche' Bradley, Tracy Elliott, Danyel Sirrency Jones, Toni Estes, Alanna Sarabia, Cheryl Roseborough, Hollie Youngblood, & Nikki Chu presented the awards.  The night wasn't over.. Letitia Owen's and Chris Traylor were the entertainers for the evening and the sang sang!!

The event was beautiful and ALL for a great cause to fund a new facility for WAYO to continue their amazing and truly important services (including feeding the homeless, and providing social services in the the Dallas communities.)

Honorees:

Jeffery Polk Founder of Rest Eazy Homeless Org. Which, for the past 4 years feeds the homeless every Sunday in Dallas.

Maia Stinson amazing 9 year old Founder of Let's Start Giving Foundation in 2016. Let's Start Giving provides the homeless with day to day essentials and support from local businesses.

Sven Nickerson Founder of Faith Walkers Charities started in 2015 to serve the homeless in the SOUTH Dallas area with essentials and mentorship. Visit www.faithwalkercharities.org

Carmina Barnett is Director of Operations for Mortenson Broadcasting Dallas Office and oversees 3 radio stations on Dallas. She serves in the community and works to bridge gaps between locals and businesses.

Rebecca Lopez senior crime reporter at WFAA and sits on Board of Directors of the Family Place, a domestic violence shelter in North Texas.

TenEleven Grill's a black owned and operated restaurant in Dallas since 2012. They partner with WAYO to host a monthly event catering to the homeless, providing services and love.

Kenn Webb served as Chair of the City of Dallas Citizen Homeless Commission and also Board of Directors of the Council on Alcohol & Drugs.

Each recipient was well deserving of their honor!!