WELCOME to "The Life of Riley" which will include periodic chronicles of pop culture and possibilities that flow out of Patrick L. Riley's day. That's me!!! Through blogging (and soon some other technological features on which I'll keep you posted as they launch), I will pull experiences from my busy life to entertain and inspire all of you. Through this site, I will share my observations and insights. Some features to look forward to:
1.) "PATRICK'S POP UP(DATES)" will feature stories from pop culture, music, theater, fashion, and the entertainment industry at large.
2.) "The Life of Riley" will also introduce a "take-a-look-at-your-life" section (READ: sort of an advice column), where I will help readers come up with their own questions and answers around what "ways of being" are working (or not working) to have them acheive their respective goals and live their best lives. This section is called "WHO YOU BE?".
3.) Additonally, there will be a free-flowing, organic section called "TESTIFY" from which I will pull from my own life's journey to share and hopefully inspire. Some of the fare may be new musings and experiences. Other times, I may pull from my journals and past sharings to shed light on some uncomfortable truths that I've experienced and that may perhaps play a role in healing someone else's wounds as the real-life experience did for me. From my experience of covering 9/11 as a freelance journalist to courageously coming out (as gay) to my family, "TESTIFY" promises to move those who choose to read it.
4.) And a section titled "PR" (like my initials, but also like "public relations") will include press clips from any coverage I get.
Entries in NYU (2)
time
queen
She passed away 20 years ago today! WOW! Still MISS her so! 
SHOUT OUT to my mom Queen Elizabeth Bellinger Riley! Endless LOVE & LEGACY! XOXOXOXO
wendy fab and 50
Made a lot of field/tape producing impressions for recurring client The Wendy Williams Show:
The VEGAS piece I had a hand in producing – highlighting Wendy’s stand-up comedy debut at The Venetian Las Vegas: http://youtu.be/sYWSgh_7ha8.
Was fun to shoot with Wendy recently. She's always SUCH A JOY!
Her birthday show had something I produced in it as well - a birthday tribute from her staff: http://youtu.be/C5VxXjA1L4Q. 
MONSTER TRUCK ran last Tuesday: http://youtu.be/IUpsz80z8oY Shout out to editor Mitch Jacobson and Wendy’s awesome team who see fit outsource these great assignments my way when they have needs the like!
#faband50 #wendywilliams #Happy50thWendy
art of the interview
I love my National Association of Black Journalists' sister friend Katti Gray - so much I got up too early (amidst a double-deadline week) to teach her new, diverse crop of NYC high schoolers participating in the NYU Urban Journalism Workshop "THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW".
GREAT KIDS! GREAT TIMES! http://urbanjournalismworkshop.org/ #nyuujw
crystal knows
Making sure to share the following info from my sister-cousin-friend Crystal – a blog featuring the best intel on natural hair.
Click or go to the following blog; read article; and win free hair products!
www.Crystal-Knows.blogspot.com.
bobby roache
Special shout out to my little brother in the industry, international model Bobby Roaché, who has been hosting Anthony Harper and me at his NYC pad this past couple of FOURTH-OF-JULY days along with a fun group of folks – including New-Jersey native/L.A.-resident Corey Notes, an esteemed songwriter (and creative director) – credits including twosongs on Chris Brown’s latest CD.
As my boy Bobby Roaché goes, PLEASE shop now
at www.BobbyRoache.com. 
You can check out his latest in sizzling eyewear!
CONGRATS BOBBY! XO
spelhouse forever
Another FAB FETE took place later that night at friend Rod’s place – what would end up being a Morehouse/Spelman reunion between college BFFs Michael K. Watts, Mario Ephraim, and OUR-FOREVER-Miss Maroon & White Adrianne C. Smith!
LOVE Y’ALL! XO PLR
THE LIFE OF RILEY
in Bobby Roache, Happy50thWendy, Lipshtick, NYU, PATRICK'S POP(UP)DATES/TESTIFY/PR, The Venetian Las Vegas, The Wendy Williams Show, WENDY WILLIAMS, WhereAreTheyNow
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amazing love
KENNETH CARR
Check this out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um6fx9XUaHc&feature=youtube_gdata_player I had a blast interviewing my friend Kenneth Carr at his place a few weeks ago:http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/2013/5/13/gatsby-and-steampunk-and-more.html.
His new CD "Amazing Love" is coming out at the end of this month… 
and his management invited me to interview him for a promo video they will be using to promote its release. 
He recently released the video for his lead-off single “Brassing My Opinion” – shot and directed by my girlfriend Shareen King Carr! It’s a huge hit – having already attracted upwards of 200,000 clicks on Kenny’s YOU TUBE channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNmTiAvVZW0.
Follow @kennycarrmusic and www.facebookcom/kennethcarr. 
Purchase the single at Amazon, iTunes, Spotify,Google Play For Bookings contact thekingsdaughtersk@gmail.com. 
As Kenny knows singing is a sidelight for me, we not only reviewed his music-in-progress and music-completed.
But he let me play around with a track or few
– one for which he wants me to write some lyrics – so we can record a track!
CONGRATS, KENNY! "Amazing Love" project releasing the end of this month: July 2013! #trombonegumbo #kennycarrmusic #amazinglove 
EMMY NOMINATIONS 2013
CURRENT LINK: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Emmy-Nominations-for-2013/216162211
You remember my debut media impression on Cozi TV/ NBC4 a couple of months ago on BLACKS and BROADWAY: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Pop-Culture-Expert-Patrick-Riley-on-Black-Broadway_New-York.html. 
It inspired many bookings since – from Motown the Musical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK1yncqPlOQ 
to Arise Entertainment 360:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxfe-hG_aY.
I just made my sophomore appearance on COZI-TV/WNBC
---- this time providing some pop culture commentary on the 2013 EMMY NOMINATIONS (alongside Senior TV Critic for TV Guide Magazine, Matt Roush rounds out the panel with host Roseanne Colletti! MATT ROCKS!
And so does COZI-TV: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Emmy-Nominations-for-2013/216162211. Its producer Tiffany Zeno has invited me back after the EMMY AWARDS!)! 
NEWS 4 NEW YORK AT 7P is a one-hour-long show that offers a combination of news, guest segments & lifestyle issues on cable station COZI-TV. COZI-TV reaches more than 5 million homes. It also simulcasts LIVE onwww.NBCNEWYORK.COM. Special shout out to Kerry Washington - one of the three African American nominees (alongside Don Cheadle and Hollywood director Paris Barclay - now first African American President of the Directors Guild Association (DGA)).
If Kerry wins, she'll be the first African American actress to take home the Drama prize for a lead role. The last time an African American woman was nominated in 1995, she lost. It was Cicely Tyson for "Sweet Justice". 
In 1983, Debbie Allen is the first African American actress nominated in this category – for Fame (three years in a row); then in 1986, Alfre Woodard was nominated for St. Elsewhere.
In 1992 and 1993, Regina Taylor was nominated for “I’ll Fly Away”. KERRY is standing on some STRONG, SCANDAL-free shoulders! WISHING HER WELL on this one!
Channel listings:
Cablevision 109 and 118
Time Warner Cable 161
Comcast 248 and 158
Verizon Fios 460
RCN 28
Meanwhile, look for my pop culture commentary in K2 Pictures' LIFE AFTER . The new season begins in the Fall of 2013. Stay tuned… and as always, THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 
THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW
SHOUT OUT to my NABJ big sister-friend-for-LIFE, Katti Gray, for inviting me to speak for the 2nd year in a row to her students at the NYU Urban Journalism Workshop - @NYU_UrbanJourno.
The requested message in my ‘sermon’: “The Art of the Interview”. Here’s what we looked like last year: http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/2012/7/19/bright-daze-dark-knights.html.
I re-testified my own story of having interviewed a whole range of subjects over the years – as on-camera interviewer and behind-the-scenes interviewer (reporter/field producer).
I coached the diverse roster of students via taped mock interviews;
and I showed them examples of my own body of work
(I’ve had a lot to demo of late). 
What a GREAT GROUP!
I ALWAYS LOVE it when I’m invited to impart some of my experiences to the youth…
and I am even more EXCITED when the invitation comes from folks I admire –
like my big sister friend Katti Gray who is the new director of NYU Urban Journalism Workshop:https://www.facebook.com/pages/NYU-Urban-Journalism-Workshop/103601966399839.
The site notes that Katti is a prize-winning veteran journalist who, in her words, has "covered hard news and soft: 
Presidential hopefuls; statehouse lawmakers; hometown heroes; time-honored and pop celebrities; floundering schools in Appalachia;
New Feminism’s younger adherents; juveniles on death row; the fight for running water on an outlying Mississippi road."
I BELIEVE THE CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE.
Sounds cliché, but glad that amidst my BUSY SKED, I can give a MOTIVATIONAL TALK here or there: 
I was invited to be the Keynote Speaker for the National Association of Black Journalists Multi-media Short Course at FAMU at the top of October - an awesome full-circle moment. 
NABJ gave me a lot of my first mentors and opportunities out of Morehouse College and one of my main advisers and confidantes Dr. Ann Wead Kimbrough from my student work with Clark Atlanta University now heads up FAMU's Journalism & Graphic Communications School: http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/2012/10/10/full-circle.html.
I just spoke to some Norfolk State University Communications students. And I recently spoke to a Savannah based group via SKYPE: http://thelifeofriley.squarespace.com/rilys-blog/2012/7/30/young-solo-savannah-voice.html 
PAUL WHARTON
While wrapping up my day on a special project with recurring client BET, I got a call from one of my NYC BFFs Sidra Smith to join she, her sister Tasha Smith,
singer/actress and friend Tichina Arnold,
comedienne Robin Montague,
Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and record producer Gordon Chambers, 
Phedra Gremillon, 
and many more – all at the beautiful Manhattan apartment of Paul Wharton. From watching clips of Miss Diana Ross – Mahogany to 'Central Park’ – to the many break-outs in song between Tichina, Gordon, and me, this night was a blast: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151544990978737&set=vb.662073736&type=2&theater. 
After wrapping his turn in BRAVO’s “Real Housewives of DC”, PAUL WHARTON is now still representing on many levels: 
DC50 show “Paul Wharton Style” primary among them. Next up: a skin-care line;
lifestyle-guru books; TV production work; and more! 
WELCOME TO NYC, PAUL!http://paulwhartonstyle.com/
THE LIFE OF RILEY
in Amazing Love, Brassing My Opinion, Kenneth Carr, Kenny Carr Music, NYU, PATRICK'S POP(UP)DATES/TESTIFY/PR, Shareen King, TASHA SMITH, Trombone Gumbo
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