Thursday, June 17, 2010, San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino welcomes the silky-smooth vocals of Keith Sweat, along with the raw power of Aaron and Damion Hall. Tickets are on sale today and are available at Ticketmaster.com and the San Manuel Box Office for $35, $45, and $55.

Over the course of his 16-year career, he’s not only survived, he’s thrived, selling more than 14 million records, while garnering five #1 R&B albums, 15 Top 10 R&B singles, six #1 hits, four Top 5 pop singles, three multiplatinum and three platinum albums, two platinum and three gold singles, widespread critical acclaim and a rabid international following.

The Harlem-born college grad’s smooth transition from Wall Street brokerage assistant to R&B heartthrob was almost as fluid as his signature style of music. In fact, it’s likely that Sweat, who debuted in the late ’80s, single-handedly and ever-so-eloquently merged the “please, baby, baby, please” style that dominated ’60s R&B with the rhythmic moaning made famous by Steve Arrington, front man for ’70s R&B group Slave. His 1987 debut, “Make It Last Forever”, was the sexy backdrop to the short-lived yet monumental New Jack era. Remarkably, the quadruple-platinum album still scans at least 800 copies a week. His astonishing run of chart-topping discs continued with subsequent releases “I’ll Give All My Love To You”, “Keep It Comin’”, “Get Up On It” and “Keith Sweat”. He continues to record hit music to this day.

Aaron Hall, an American R&B singer and songwriter and older brother to Damion, was a member of the trio Guy in the 1980’s and 1990’s. The group produced hits like “ Groove Me,” “I Like,” and “Piece of My Love”. from their self-titled debut album.

“Let Chill” and “Do Me Right” came from their second album, “The Future”.

The brothers went on create solo careers after the break-up of Guy in 1991, where Aaron connected with K-Ci & Jojo in the 2Pac single “Toss It Up” in the 1996 album, “The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory”.

Every Thursday night with headliner entertainment, San Manuel gives away $1,000 just for seeing the show. To be eligible to win, guests only need a ticket to the show, a Club Serrano card and to be 21 or older. Guests can enter beginning at noon on such days. Three drawings will be held on those nights: $250 at 7:20 p.m., $250 at 10:00 p.m. and $500 at 11:00 p.m. Winners must be present.

Rhythm on the Vine presents: Stephanie Mills, Broadway Star, Grammy and American Music Award winning Blues, R&B and Soul performer and contemporary award winning instrumentalist Najee on Friday, May 14th at 7:30pm, at the opulent South Coast Winery in Temecula. Ticket price is $70.00 and up.

Every penny raised benefits Shriners Hospitals for Children®, Los Angeles providing medical care for children 18 years and younger at no charge to patient or family. Tickets can be purchased at www.rhythmonthevine.org or call 213-368-3378. Doors open at 5pm. Food and wine are available for purchase.

Stephanie Mills is a legendary musical theatre icon with more than a dozen albums. After taking time off for motherhood, it was good news for her adoring fans to hear that Mills has embarked on her first recording since 1994 with her new album, BREATHLESS.

Najee is best known as the innovator of urban jazz. Having had a platinum selling debut album, entitled "Najee's Theme" released by EMI, Najee followed this album with yet another Platinum success "Day By Day". Not to mention numerous other gold selling albums to his credit.

For more information please visit www.rhythmonthevine.org or www.shrinershospitals.org.

Reverend L.E. Campbell and the Park Avenue Baptist Church LB Moss Scholarship Committee, invites you to its annual L.B. Moss Scholarship Art Exhibit and Sale fundraiser, on Saturday, April 24, 2010, 10am – 5pm. at Park Avenue Baptist Church (Dining Hall), 1910 Martin Luther King Blvd, Riverside, California.

The mission of The L.B. Moss Scholarship Committee is to raise funds for scholarships to award to well-deserving students, who plan to further their education. The annual art exhibit and sale is one of the many fundraising efforts of the LB Moss Scholarship Committee.

Renowned artist and host Charles Bibbs will sponsor the art exhibit and sale. His works and the works of other renowned artists, such as, Synthia Saint James, Larry Poncho Brown and Varnette Honeywood, will be for sale. Maurice Howard, one of Riverside’s most popular artists, will also have his works on display.

During this fun-fundraising event, there will be a wide range of affordable art prints to buy, some as low as $10. In addition, Bibbs will conduct several raffle drawings throughout the day. The Grand raffle prize will be a beautiful framed limited edition print by Charles Bibbs, titled: “Seat Of Knowledge.” To further enhance the event, Bibbs will give a Don’t miss Charles Bibbs exceptional Art presentation that will begin at 1:30 pm.

Profits from the art sale, and raffles will benefit the L.B. Moss Scholarship Fund. Elaine Bibbs at B Graphics states, “Our goal is to raise more funds this year, to support more students. We’re asking everyone to come out and support us in this worthy cause.”

For more information, please contact Elaine Bibbs at B Graphics and Fine Arts /951-682-8185, or, 951-688-1712 -Jackie Hester, President.

By Linda Ong –

We love you! Keep going! Tell us! The audience couldn’t get enough of legendary actresses Ann Rutherford and Anne Jeffreys at the Riverside International Film Festival’s (RIFF) Opening Night Gala Champagne Reception recently.

To kick-off the ten-day festival, city officials, filmmakers, and movie fans alike, all gathered in the restored Orchestra Lobby of the Fox Theater to honor Rutherford and Jeffreys. Dr. Harkeerat Dhillon, President of the RIFF, spoke of the actresses’ momentous achievements in Hollywood, followed by announcing Rutherford as the first-ever recipient of RIFF’s Distinguished Artist Award and Jeffreys as the recipient of RIFF’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

“I’m grateful to the people who love movies,” said Rutherford, who played the timid Careen O’Hara in the Oscar-winning 1939 film, Gone With the Wind. “I’m as happy as if I had good sense.”

Rutherford further expressed how everyone has to “make a pit stop at Riverside” and explained the transformation that Atlanta, Georgia had undergone as a result of the 1939 hit movie.

“People came to visit Atlanta,” said Rutherford. “It turned the city into the Chicago of the South. This, too, can happen to Riverside.”

And this is very true. From April 16-April 25, the UltraStar Cinemas at the University Village will enable the viewers to “experience the world in ten days.” The films shown will include features, shorts, and documentaries ranging from narratives of African Americans to that of Asians, to sports histories to zombies. Thus, the festival will not only tell different stories of diverse cultures and ideas, but it will also display the talents of many well-known and up-and-coming filmmakers of the century.

“We’ve had the idea for 10 years,” said Fred Fontana, writer and producer of Florida Road. The film focuses on the life of Shaan Sahay, whose family moved from India to South Africa, and how Sahay desires to choose an unconventional route for his career. “Our film shows the battle of a father and son.”

A dancer overwhelmed with problems and lost dreams, takes her own life. Instead of her soul going to the after world it travels into the body of other lost women on the edge of mortality.

While Florida Road brings together the East and West, other films, like Shadows of Sepulveda, display the emotional heartache resulting from trying to break into Hollywood.

“It’s an L.A. story,“ said David Michael Joseph. “It’s a story of reincarnation.” In the film, a struggling dancer commits suicide and her soul goes into another woman’s body who is a screenwriter. The film has been awarded the Silver Ace Award for the Las Vegas Film Festival in June 2010.

Other films seek to reveal the psychological complexity and imagination of the human mind.

“Phobia is a short film- a drama,” said Braide Keyland, producer and director of Keyland Productions. The film is about Dr. Kate Maitly, a child psychologist, who actually experienced childhood fears, herself. Keyland prides herself on her one-woman show work style. “I do all the casting, writing, sound, and marketing myself. And it’s all selftaught.”