Malinda Williams, best known for her role on the now defunt Showtime series, "Soul Food", joined the thriving celebrity blog community. Malinda team up with "Essence" magazine to talk about her upcoming wedding to Derrick ‘D-Nice’ Jones. Check out Malinda's wedding-inspired blog out over at
ESSENCE.TYPEPAD.COM/CELEBRITYWEDDINGS. In the blog post, Malinda said she wanted her wedding to be 'timeless, classic, and vintage-mod." The soon-to-be Mrs. Jones invited many of her family and close friends like Dawnn Lewis, Vanessa Williams, Tasha Smith, AJ Johnson, and Terri J. Vaughn to her bridal shower.

Solange recently updated her Hadley Street Journal to talk to her fans and critics about what she did between her recent Essence Music Festival experience. (Pictured with Solange is IB3.)

Last but not least...on the ride back to the superdome (I'm hosting
vh1 soul summer sounds, yay! ) we saw this ridiculous airbrushed
picture of Weezy and Plies.( Yeah, I didn't know people did these
anymore.) Well we just had to join the masses and do our proper hood
pose in front of Mr. Lollipop and Mr. Bust it Baby. [CONTINUE READING...]

Photos: ESSENCE/SOLANGE'S BLOG

Labels: Fashion Hoopla, Malinda Williams, Music Hoopla, Solange