Tameka Harris Announces the Expansion of Tiny’s Nail Bar
Yesterday, Tameka “Tiny” Harris’ publicist reached out to Sandrarose.com with the great news that Tiny is expanding her successful Tiny’s Nail Bar to a new location.
“We are so excited about the success of Family Hustle and especially proud of Tameka as a business woman, mother, wife, producer and executive producer,” wrote Tenisha Ramos of Somar Entertainment in an email.
“As an entreprenuer giving back to the community Tameka is looking for 10 nail technicians and a Spa Manager,” she announced.
Tameka is also announcing the winner of her Family Hustle giveaway February 6, 2012 on her Twitter page for the best Family Hustle story. People can register by going to www.tinysnails.com or www.hypehair.com.
Above is an exclusive photo of Tiny by celebrity photographer Nicky Woo from Tiny’s feature in EBONY magazine this month.
Also, congrats to Crystal (loyal SR member Twilight), who was named Tameka’s new media manager!
Sneak Peek: Braxton Family Values, Ep 12, Caught Red Handed
In tonight’s dramatic episode of WEtv’s Braxton Family Values, Trina Braxton and her estranged husband, Gabe Solis, tackle his infidelities during an emotional therapy session with TV Dr. Sherry.
“I caught Gabe red handedly acting inappropriately on a social network site with a female that he knew,” explained Trina.
Gabe’s cheating ways came to light on Twitter.com when a woman tweeted photos of him exposing himself on Skype.
But when it was Gabe’s turn to speak, he avoided the issue of exposing himself online.
In typical canine behavior, Gabe blamed the other woman for tempting him with a bone. “I took the bait,” he said. Gabe has since deleted his Twitter page.
Although he remains in denial about his voyeuristic behavior, Gabe did admit to Dr. Sherry that he didn’t do what a married man should have done.
In an interview last month, Trina, who has children from a previous relationship, revealed that she and Gabe separated a year ago. Their Johns Creek, GA home is still on the market.
Watch the sneak peek of tonight’s episode after the break.
Police: Body may be missing woman, Stacey English
The Atlanta Journal reports that the body of a woman found Monday in southeast Atlanta might be Stacey Nicole English, 36, who was reported missing in December 2011.
“The decedent is an adult black female, consistent in age with reported missing person Stacey English,” said chief medical examiner Randy Hanzlick, though it remains unclear whether the body is that of the missing Buckhead woman.
According to the AJC, two men searching for scrap metal stumbled upon the body on Monday in a wooded area less than a mile away from where English’s white Volvo was found abandoned with the engine running.
The body was “in an advanced state of decomposition,” Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos told the AJC.
APD notified English’s family of the discovery. “If this is not her, I have to still be sad because it’s someone else’s child,” said Bernice English Hurks, English’s aunt.
“I can’t base my emotions on what I think,” English Hurks said. The hardest thing now, she said, “is not knowing.”
An autopsy is underway to identify the body and to determine the cause of death.
Man who killed Jorelys Rivera found dead in prison
The 20-year-old maintenance man who pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera last month was found dead in his cell of an apparent suicide.
Ryun Brunn was arrested on Dec. 7, 2011 and charged with murdering Jorelys who was reported missing by her mother on Dec. 2.
Jorelys was last seen playing with other children in the playground of the apartment complex where she lived. Brunn was hired as a maintenance man at the apartment complex in Nov. 2011. He bragged on facebook about living rent free at the complex.
A Georgia Department of Corrections spokesman said Brunn was found unresponsive in his cell at 4:15 pm, reports Channel 2 Action News. It isn’t clear if Brunn was on suicide watch at the time.
Brunn appeared in a Cherokee County courtroom on Tuesday and coldly recounted how he committed the crime. Brunn said after he molested the child, he slashed the girl’s throat with a knife and beat her in the head with her own roller skate. Brunn wrapped the girl’s body and dumped her in a trash compactor.
“I never had an idea of killing a child in my life … I was just so terrified and scared. I didn’t want her to tell her mom and dad on me and I just … I cut her,” Brunn said. Source
Brunn pleaded guilty to murder and child molestation charges, among other offenses. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Monica Headlines Battle of the Bands 2012
R&B Diva Monica will headline the annual Battle of the Bands on Jan. 28 at the Georgia Dome.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports: “eight college marching bands from historically black colleges and universities will showcase their music and showmanship at this annual invitational event, but it will also spotlight the talents of Grammy-winning Atlanta singer and songwriter Monica.”
Monica will perform at the Battle of the Bands on Jan. 28, just weeks before the scheduled release of her seventh album, New Life. You can get a taste of the new album on the Georgia native’s website, which features the video for the track “Until It’s Gone.” You can pre-order the album there, too.
Tickets for the event, which begins at 3 p.m. Jan. 28, are available at Ticketmaster or at the Georgia Dome Box Office. Tickets are $10-$12.
The bands participating in this year’s Honda Battle of the Bands are:
Albany State University’s Marching Rams Show Band
Bethune Cookman University’s Marching Wildcats
Jackson State University’s Sonic Boom of the South
Prairie View A&M University’s Marching Storm
South Carolina State University’s Marching 101
Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat of Bands
Virginia State University’s Marching Trojan Explosion
Winston-Salem State University’s Red Sea of Sound
Education Leaders: Teachers Should Not Be Fired Over Slavery Beatings Math Lesson
The unorthodox teaching methods of teachers at a Norcross elementary school have caused a national uproar. The teachers gave 3rd grade students at Beaver Ridge Elementary a math lesson featuring slavery questions such as figuring out how many beatings a slave would get if he was whipped twice a day for 2 weeks.
Over 100 students were sent home with the math lesson, which featured about 20 questions on slavery. Some parents reacted with fury, accusing the teachers of blatant racism. But education leaders dismiss the allegations of racism.
According to the AJC, Calvine Rollins, president of the Georgia Association of Educators said “the slave math lesson created by a teacher to reinforce a lesson on Frederick Douglass may have used poor judgment, but it shouldn’t lead to the termination of those who wrote or handed it out without reviewing it.”
“This is an unfortunate incident,” Rollins said. “I don’t believe the teacher wanted to expose those kids to anything offensive. Gwinnett County teachers are dedicated. They work hard and try on a daily basis to do the right thing.”
Person of interest speaks about missing Buckhead woman
“When a person disappears without a trace, often the most critical information is hidden in their actions and words in the days before they vanished,” says the narrator of ID Channel’s TV series ‘Disappeared‘.
In the case of Stacey Nicole English, the 36-year-old Buckhead woman who went missing on Dec. 26, 2011, her last actions and words may hold the key to her disappearance.
According to her family, English was acting “out of character” and talking about the end of the world in the days leading up to her disappearance. She is on medication and she was previously hospitalized following a suicide attempt, according to the police report.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Erin Coleman spoke by phone with the last person to see English alive.
Atlanta police named Robert Kirk a ‘person of interest’ in the case. He was visiting English over the holidays when the two got into an argument on Dec. 26. English reportedly threw Kirk out of her apartment that day.
“(I) heard about the reports and it sent a tingle through me,” Kirk told Coleman, according to WSBTV.com.
Kirk said he is praying for English’s safety and that the situation is “crazy.”
Kirk also spoke with a reporter from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a phone interview today. “I don’t know what’s going on. All I know is, I’ve been speaking with [authorities] for a week,” he said.
Kirk declined to say anything more, referring a reporter’s questions to his attorney Scott Rosenblum.
English worked at Sun Trust Bank and lived in a condo off Lenox Road in Buckhead for 4 years. She left behind her cellphone, iPad and keys, according to Channel 2 Action News.
