While violins are normally referenced to classical, jazz or folk music styles, musician and composer Josh Vietti has utilized the bowed strings to create a hip, crowd-pleasing universe that synthesizes to...
Anyone who reads most of what I write can tell how much I enjoy the flotsam that is pop culture. And leaving aside the fact that I’ve been saturated in it for most of my life, even the grumpiest stiff would have...
That priceless expression artistic gymnast McKayla Maroney painted on her face after accepting a silver medal for her August 5 final vault performance during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London has become fodder for...
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Everyone who has auditioned for the NBC summer television series America's Got Talent, since its debut in 2006, has longed to hear those four golden words: "You're going to Vegas." At the...
Ice to Eskimos. Way back when, that was the saying. If you were so good at sales that you could sell anything, you were said to be able to sell “ice to Eskimos.” Now, before I go any further, I do have to...
While her posthumous album, “Lioness: Hidden Treasures” is set to be released next month, a tribute video of Amy Winehouse’s “Our Day Will Come” was released last Friday. A collection of unreleased...
created by Emily Sutherlin | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 201 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Around about 1992 I became ridiculously convinced of my own wonderfulness. Just a few years removed from high school, I had (by that point) tucked some college under my belt, gotten a...
i could say a lot about the popular myths about autism, but i happily don't need to: someone already wrote an absolutely fantastic article. RACHEL COHEN-ROTTENBERG wrote such an accessible, accurate, direct and personally touching article on the topic, i thought it...
created by dysamoria | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 573 views | 26 recommendations | 5 comments
The House Bunny. It's new, it's funny, and it's going to be an excuse to strut out pretty girls while reinforcing society's negative view of women. If you check out the IMDB page for the film you can see the raging message board war about whether the movie is setting the...
opinion by starlabranche | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 934 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
After all of the reading I do about serial killers, rapists, murderers, and everything in between, one might think that I would be... well, more paranoid than everyone else. Being safe is great. Let's all be safe. Don't do stupid things, be careful when you're around people...
opinion by starlabranche | 4 years ago | updated 3 years ago 6169 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
By: George A. Ten Eyck In these tumultuous times, many people are longing for a time (not so long ago) when gas was cheap, the economy was good, we were at peace (basically), and neon, cool-blue,...
created by george_teneyck | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 611 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
With a successful tour of North America completed and nearly $95 million earned the recently reunited Van Halen have returned to the rock stage in 2008 just in time. Whammy bars and extended guitar solos are...
opinion by george_teneyck | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 374 views | 15 recommendations | 3 comments
" In terms of the daily avalanche of new events “burying me alive”… this is old news from two months ago. Nevertheless it is evolving news pointing to Iran in a particular way, music and...
created by korzac | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2971 views | 3 recommendations | 4 comments