Jenice Armstrong

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Jenice Armstrong puts her saucy spin on national and local topics du jour three days a week - Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. A pop culture critic, she also writes about local and national news as well as social trends. It was while researching a column on Internet dating that she met the man she wound up marrying. Armstrong, who worked at The Associated Press and the Washington Post before joining the Daily News as a business reporter, appears frequently on area TV and radio programs. When Armstrong’s not working, she jogs, studies martial arts and spends way too time watching the E! channel. She appears every other Tuesday in the "Around the Watercooler" segment on NBC10's "The 10! Show."

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The Brothers' Network was created for brainy Philadelphia guys

01/28/2013

Gregory Walker, co-founder and managing director of the Brothers' Network, wants to assure you that he and his friends are not cornball brothers.

Sequined gowns, lavish costumes: Local museum displays Supremes collection 01/25/2013: Philly museum displays Supremes collection

For nearly half a century, the signature sequined gowns and other lavish stage costumes belonging to 1960s Motown superstars the Supremes lay forgotten, boxed up and stacked in founding member Mary Wilson's various garages and storage spaces.
Belle Michelle: Dazzling is the FLOTUS operandi 01/22/2013: From swearing-in to inaugural ball, dazzling is the FLOTUS operandi

It's been a long while since D.C. has seen a first lady who gave off so much fashion drama.
It's Inauguration Day: America celebrates 01/21/2013: Jenice Armstrong: No one's expecting Monday's inauguration to top that bitter cold day in 2009 when Aretha Franklin rocked that gray, big-bowed hat as she belted out that soulful rendition of "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
Oxygen removes 'All My' from 'Babies' Mamas' reality TV show 01/18/2013: THERE'S NO WAY that a reality TV show called "All My Babies' Mamas" was going to be anything but a hot mess.
Armstrong slinks into Oprah's forgiving arms 01/15/2013: A real man would have held a news conference and submitted himself to reporters' questions instead of hiding behind Oprah Winfrey's forgiving skirttails.
Big on Barack, she worships at 'Obama shrine' 01/14/2013: The rest of the world may be suffering from fiscal cliff burnout but Tracey Brown of Francisville is not - because President Obama's second inauguration is on the horizon.
Veteran hairstylist weaves success with 'vision map' 01/06/2013: FIVE YEARS ago, Syreeta Scott felt stuck. Business was bustling at Duafe Holistic Hair Care, which specializes in locs, coils and other Afrocentric styles that don't require harsh chemical straighteners. Magazines like Essence were talking about her salon as the place to get your hair done in Philly, and celebrities like Jill Scott (no relation), Smokey Robinson, Vivian Green and Questlove frequented the shop.
A South Jersey woman loses 75 pounds with a pedometer 12/31/2012: I'M A SUCKER for a good weight-loss story. In the supermarket, I scan the tabloids looking for the secret to the dieter's success: Gastric bypass surgery? A diet pill? Maybe that new Dukan Diet created by French doctor Pierre Dukan that Kate Middleton's mother reportedly used to prepare for the royal wedding?
Oprah-style holiday gift giveaway spreads cheer 12/23/2012: Darlene King has boxes full of beautiful Christmas ornaments, many handmade by her daughters when they were little girls. Even though it's the holiday season, she keeps them tucked away in storage, waiting until the day she can finally move out of her flood-prone basement apartment. With two daughters in college and with herself, facing a slew of serious health problems, including AIDs, times are hard.
Donkey dough: 'Real Housewives' ca$h in 12/19/2012: THERE MAY BE SOMETHING unseemly about somebody trying to make money for something that may have more to do with genetics than anything else, but I'm not going to knock a "Housewife" on a hustle.