::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

buzzz worthy. . . Atlanta, GA — Writer, director, producer, and actor, Edward Fernandez’s stage play  What God Joined Together is slated for a run at the historic Fox Theatre on April 25th at 8pm. After a successful run at the Ferst Center For The Arts during Valentines weekend, the New Orleans native is showing no signs of slowing down and every indication of following in the footsteps of his admitted role model, Tyler Perry.  Being the youngest African American male to ever book the Fox’s main stage, (which seats almost 5,000 people) what the advantageous 26-year old Edward Fernandez does here can definitely catapult him to the place that has taken others many years to get to. “For years, I struggled with promoting and providing a platform for what others perceived as million dollar talent on what I knew was a welfare budget… and to now have a show at the Fox Theatre, after failing many, many-many times, is no small thing and I’m beyond grateful,” he ...

buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin Attorney Phaedra Parks tries to hold her husband Apollo Nida back from a fight that broke out on  Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 6. Since the days of smut show host Jerry Springer, adults behaving badly have been the center of money-making, ratings-boasting,  must-see T.V. The "Jerry Springer Show" primed and desensitized viewers to accepting non-fictional violence so that by the time reality T.V. penetrated programming, grown folks beating the snot out of each other in front of millions of voyeuristic viewers was the unfortunate norm.  Before I recap the most recent episode of the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" (RHOA) I want to point out Springer did not tolerate men and women going at each other, which is a comparison I never thought I'd be able to make given the level of success of some of the RHOA cast mates.  Unfortunately, based on the most recent episode, several women on the  RHOA  don't seem to have a probl...