Harlem News

If they couldn't be at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, they wanted to be where it all began, in the heart of Harlem, less than a few steps from the Apollo Theatre where Michael Jackson and his brothers first burst onto the music scene.

The Big Apple was never more than a minor player among the many clubs that swung and bopped their way into the Harlem jazz scene in its heyday.

It's the second love fest in one week on W. 125th Street in Harlem. Tuesday morning, Michael Jackson fans from all over New York, New Jersey and Connecticut trickled out to prepare for the 1 p.m. Jackson Memorial, which will be broadcasted on a giant, black blow-up video screen.

For Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, being Puerto Rican is wrapped up in the Caribbean island's exotic cuisine.

The walls of East Harlem can speak. Dozens of colorful murals line the narrow streets and wide avenues, celebrating pleneros and poets, rumberos and revolutionaries.

Terrell Jones can't be tired. It's midnight on a Saturday, but he must wipe the sleep out of his eyes because his night is just beginning.

Jun 30, 2009 7:00 pm US/Eastern NEW YORK 1 of 1 DJ Chub Rock watches the Reverend Al Sharpton and movie director Spike Lee dance on stage during a public memorial for pop star Michael Jackson on June 30, 2009 at the Apollo Theater in the Harlem section of New York.

Jun 30, 2009 6:54 am US/Eastern Reporting Magee Hickey NEW YORK 1 of 5 A portrait of Michael Jackson before his "BAD" world concert tour held at Wembley Stadium in London on the July 15, 1988.

Their idol is dead, but for Michael Jackson's fans, the King of Pop is a legend that will live on forever.

Harlem, especially the Apollo, is the media's unofficial spot to get Black America's reaction to Michael Jackson 's death.

Spontaneous tributes to Jackson pop up all over New York City >> Posted By suzanek 18 hours, 18 minutes ago in News Starting about 6 p.m., a crowd began gathering under the blinking white lights of the Apollo Theater marquee on 125th Street in New York's Harlem neighborhood.

The Harlem theater that helped launch Michael Jackson's career plans star-studded tributes to him this summer.

Four-time Grammy winner and self- confessed glitz queen Bette Midler enters an East Harlem lot at her characteristic hip-swaying march, swapping the outsize pink feather headdress of her Las Vegas show for gardening gloves.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, holding a black and white photo with him and Michael Jackson, speaks to members of the media in front of the Apollo Theater.

Funny how things change. Behaviour that could, not so long ago, have landed you in jail can now get you a showbiz contract.

Pick from the extensive list of craft beers, tuck into crab cakes or a plate of lobster mac and cheese, and lean back in chairs once used by Tony Soprano-all of the cafe's furniture is from Nuovo Vesuvio, the restaurant in The Sopranos .

Join Dorothy Gale and her friends as they, "ease on down the road" to the Emerald City where they meet the most powerful and coolest ruler in all of children's literature a ' The Wiz.

Music producer, author, photographer and former CIA agent, Hank O'Neal has plenty of experiences from which to draw inspiration.

NEW YORK CITY: SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2009---One of the best reasons to travel to the Big Apple is to catch the Bay Area's own talented actor and movie star Delroy Lindo in Things of Dry Hours at the New York Theater Workshop.

Critics were not kind to The Wiz when it opened on Broadway in 1975, and they were even less charitable towards the movie version three years later.