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L.A.'s Best Breakout Music Acts of 2012

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...

Harold & Kumar go to White.....House?

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...

Olympic star McKayla Maroney catches Hollywood's eye

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...

Howard Stern to LA rap artist: "You're going to Vegas!"

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: Nike plans to make life fun

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...

Amy Winehouse: ‘Our Day Will Come’ Video Released from Late Album

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...

Butterfinger Dreams: When your past comes back to sell you

      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...

Challenging Popular Myths About Autism

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...

Are paranoid or dead our only options?

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...

The Van Halen Reunion Exeperience, Return of the Real Guitar Hero

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...

The House Bunny; new film, old issues

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...

U2 Takes Fans Back To Pop Mart -On New DVD

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,...

Iranian Blogosphere YouTube Music Clips, the most highly cited, 2008

" 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...

Cheeky Girls Homo-Erotic Incestual Confession

"Gabriela told Telegraph writer Neil Tweedie that she and her sister still sleep together in the same bed at their family home in Transylvania."

Was James Brown Murdered?

"The Godfather of Soul is rumoured to have been poisoned by thieves intent on stealing a fortune buried somewhere on Brown’s South Carolina estate!"

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