On The DC Scene

Renee Chantel the” Fashion Guru and Diva”. A graduate from the Connecticut Schools of Broadcasting were she studied extensive specialized training in Television Broadcasting and Radio. Renee has use her extensive training with her fabulous Fashion report on Live & Direct as well as a interned at WWZZ 104.1 and WKYS 93.9, were she worked in the promotion department and morning show. Renee earned an Associated Degree in Communications.

Renee was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY; she arrived in the DC area in 1995 ready the take city by storm with her wit and her NY energy. Renee has a love for Fashion, Music and Entertainment. As a child she read Vogue, Seventeen and every entertainment magazine available. If you want to know what hot in Fashion, Music and Entertainment, well Renee is your girl. Always the first to know what‘s what and what is going on.

Renee would like to host and produce her own all access entertainment show for young people and give back to the community. She is a member of National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment.

What's Hot!

Hip- Hop meets the White House, the Smithsonian host exhibit on Hip- Hop Culture. LL Cool J. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Common and Erykah Badu are among the artists featured in Recognize! Hip-Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, which will be on display from Feb. 8, 2008 through Oct 26, 2008 at National Portrait Gallery.

Photographs by David Scheinbaume and paintings by Kehinde Wiley and video self portraits by Jefferson Pinder of Hip- Hop artists. Award Poet Nikki Giovanni, wrote a poem, which is transcribed onto walls by artist Shinique Smith. Two graffiti artists based here in DC created 4 portrait murals for an installation.

If checking out portraiture is not you thing, tickets are going on sale this month for Thurgood. The one- man show at New York Booth Theater (New York City) staring Lawrence Fishburne in the life story of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Written by George Stevens Jr. ., Thurgood tells the story of how Marshall rose from a childhood in the backstreets of Baltimore to the Supreme Court of the United States.

The CW networks say Good by to our Girlfriends. The show was one of the few comedies to survive UPN’s 2006 merger with WB to create the CW. But its average of 2.1 million viewers this year was not large enough to warrant returning for next season. First Sex and City and now we say goodbye to our Girlfriends. CW has report it’s putting together a special” Girlfriends “