CA Podcast #36 – Tinder and Online Dating
In this podcast, Cypher Avenue founders Ocky Williams and Nick Delmacy discuss the Online dating, the dating app Tinder and how your popular online presence could be hindering your dating endeavors.
WATCH IT IN HD: Kendrick Lamar Drops Impressive Music Video Visuals For “Alright”
Kendrick Lamar is here to stay. Fresh off of his “patriotic” BET Awards performance that opened the show that caused Fox News to lose their shit, Kendrick releases the second music video from his epic (and revolutionary) To Pimp A Butterfly album, “Alright.”
Heritage AND Hate
The Confederate Flag has been thrust into the national spot light, after years of public discussion dormancy. Having lived in the south my entire life – Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia – I’ve witnessed its transition from flying over state capitols and local government buildings,…
CA Podcast #35 – SCOTUS LOVE: Same Sex Marriage Interview with Phylle & Antoine Carter
In this podcast, Cypher Avenue founder Nick Delmacy discusses the US Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling on Same Sex Marriage with married couple Larry “Phylle” Carter and Antoine Nolan Carter.
CA Podcast #34 – Hate Crimes and Fun Times
In this podcast, Cypher Avenue founders Ocky Williams and Nick Delmacy discuss the hate crime in Charleston, The Game of Thrones season finale, Big Summer Blockbusters, New videos games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo and sexual bodily fluids.
WATCH: The Reward – Tales of Alethrion
I wasn’t expecting my over active imagination to want something more after viewing the short animated film The Reward. It wasn’t because the short was lacking in any way; the opposite, it is very entertaining. My cravings were coming from something that doesn’t exist…
The 25 Most Bad Ass Games Of E3 2015 – PART 2
The 25 Most Bad Ass Games Of E3 2015 – PART 2 In my first list you got number 25 to 13 of the most impressive game trailers and in-game demonstrations shown at the E3 2015 expo. In this list I count down to the…
Spider-Man Has To Be White and Not a Homo
Back in 2011, Marvel Comics premiered a black/latino Spider-Man named Miles Morales. A couple of years later, raising star Donald Glover and his fans were campaigning Hollywood execs to cast him as the next Peter Parker (or Morales) in a Spider-Man film franchise reboot. Little…
WEB SERIES REVIEW: The Boyz Next Door – Los Angeles
Filmmaker Henderson Maddox (Steel River) is back with another season of his web series, The Boyz Next Door. This time it’s set in Los Angeles, “The Place Where Everyone is a Star,” according to the series’ trailer.
Where Is the White LGBT Media on This Issue?
On June 17th 2015, suspected gunman Dylann Roof walked into a historical black church in South Carolina. It’s reported that after the bible study ended, he shot and killed 9 church members. It’s also being reported that he allowed a parishioner to live so they…
Opinion: Five Things That Are Right About This Picture
Rachel Dolezal, former Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter President, has been the talk of discussions across social media outlets to political think-tank blogs. In summation, Dolezal has lived the past ten years of her life as a black woman- getting a graduate degree from an HBCU…
Purple Haze and “(No) Homo” Ways in my School Daze
This blog is in response to Ocky Williams’ Raymond Helped Me Realize I Was Homo. We all have some insight about who we are and it is clear that, for some of us, the paths toward who we are were paved by stories written…
I’m Over the Gayness in Comics
June is LGBT Pride Month and DC Comics in conjunction with The Advocate released a video showcasing the history of LGBT characters in DC Comics. This video also coincides with the release of the comic Midnighter #1. I’ve always been a fan of Apollo &…
CA Podcast #33 – The Real Chocolate City
In this podcast, Cypher Avenue founders Ocky Williams and Nick Delmacy discuss the new “Black Magic Mike” stripper film, Chocolate City. They also interview a real-life former black male stripper to a get his take on the film and stories from his glory days on the stage.
WATCH: Kung Fury
Kung Fury is an amazing short film that gets high on mushrooms, after a night of heaving drinking and doing LSD bongs from the 80’s. Yep this is dripping retro nostalgia. Director David Sandberg gives us a Miami Vice / Kung Fu protagonist (Kung…
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