Am I too quick to presume that paint-and-sip parties will be to 2018 what the Sunday day party was to 2012? It sure looks that way. Less than a week after Café Soul’s Trap.Soul.Paint, my boy Cash had the Mandarin Banquet Hall filled with canvasses and had the ladies fit to be tied knowing that their favorite on screen boo from the mid-1990s a.k.a. Larenz Tate was coming through. What is it about painting along to twerk music that gets y’all turning up in ways I never imagined? Well for this go ‘round, I’ll blame the BYOB. Either way, it wasn’t packed to the gills, but the lit level was at capacity. Larenz learned the hard way that you don’t sneak up on a woman from St. Louis – which he should have already known being that he’s from Chicago. He came up behind one woman focused on her little piece of art and acted like he was about to start painting. What should have been a cute celebrity crush surprise had her turning around like “who is this all up in my personal space that wants to find out the hard way that they got the wrong one?” They both laughed about it right after. Larenz Tate has not aged since he was “O Dog.” Yes, he looks the same as he did as Darius on “Love Jones” – and that was twenty something years ago. And he has the nerve to be funny and charming too. When he clowned the folks for having an old picture of him on the projector, I started to jump to their defense and say, “well you look the same then as you do right now.” It was a good time and I loved the fact that Larenz had jokes on top of being fine. When he said that the model painting that everybody was following looked like a cemetery instead of a skyline, I was close to tapping out.  If you looking to get your Larenz fix on a new project, you’ll be thrilled to know he’s in the upcoming season of “Power” on Starz. I don’t know if I will be able to handle him and Omari Hardwick on the same screen at the same time. I feel like my flat screen may crash due to fineness overload.

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