What I wouldn’t pay to wake up one morning and write a post filled with paparazzi pictures of Donnie Simpson leaving a dinner date Katsuya in West Hollywood. Just one! Until that precious moment occurs, here’s another wig crypt bullet point.

Solange, pictured in all her shea butter glory at the 6th Annual Roots Picnic at the Festival Pier in Philly last week, talked balancing music and motherhood in the latest issue of Brooklyn magazine.

On her decision to move to New York: “You know, my parents are here, my sister is here, my cousin is here, all my friends are here. We really wanted Julez to have the experience that we had growing up—being able to drop in on his aunt’s house and being able to hang out with Grandma and see our friends and have that experience of actually having a soccer game and having family show up.”

On her connection to New York City: “I’m still a newcomer here, but I feel like because my family moved to New York when I was 17, that I have a longer and deeper connection. And I think about the times when I would come and visit them, and I would always spend a lot of time in Brooklyn. So it feels like an extension of me, living here, because I spent so much time here before.”

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