5 Epic Songs to Jam Out to When You Have a Deadline
We're all guilty of the deadline epidemic: knowing you have a deadline, but deciding to momentarily peruse Buzzfeed, tweet about the newest episode of Pretty Little Liars, eat more than you should, and...
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Top Off-Broadway Shows to Watch in NYC: Part Two
From an over-the-top dinner and theater experience to a risqué revue about naked men singing and dancing, read about the intimate, and often interactive, shows you can only experience off-Broadway in...
View ArticleTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: A Hoot and a Half
What was a senior citizen doing at a screening of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Having a good time, that's what! Fun. Fantasy. An escape. It's all here. Do not look too closely as it has flaws, but the...
View ArticleTruth in Character
Sinead O'Connor's Musical Catharsis: I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss While visiting Dublin in early June, the wife and I came upon a mural painted on the side of the city's Hard Rock Café tucked within a...
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Dr. Radley's Nightmare Machine and the Future of Home Haunts
Like so many others, I first came across Ricky Brigante's work on his now-legendary Inside the Magic site some years ago, although it was only recently that we managed to speak for the first time, when...
View ArticleRob's Highs and Lowes
As a teenager, Rob Lowe moved from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Malibu for high school -- and kick started his movie career. The young, up-and-coming actor found himself moving in the right circles,...
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Top Rock Heats Up the Hard Rock Hotel Palm Springs (AUDIO/VIDEO)
Cast members of Top Rock (an '80s and '90s interactive rock concert) perform at the Hard Rock Hotel Palm Springs, Friday, August 1st, 2014. Photo by Nicholas Snow. In this episode of my podcast,...
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How Top Chef Contestants Shut Down an Airport and (Nearly) a Cruise Ship
The season premiere of Top Chef Duels debuted Wednesday evening. Here's a Q&A with two previous Cheftestants who dueled aboard the Celebrity Summit on a cruise to Bermuda, the first of four...
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Director Alexia Kosmider Talks New Documentary TransJourney (AUDIO)
This week I talked with filmmaker Alexia Kosmider (Not Your Mama's Roller Derby, Sappho's Fire) about her new documentary, TransJourney, which is premiering at the Rhode Island International Film...
View ArticleRon Galella's "New York" -- Reliving the Good Old Days of the First and...
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity," wrote Dorothy Parker. •I have written over and over and even did a documentary extolling the talents of the greatest paparazzo of...
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Dance Music Versus the Mainstream Media: 'If Country Can Dance, Why Can't We?'
A blanket of dismal expectancy shrouds every new festival or high profile EDM show. It arrives in the form of a vulture; a hovering media presence eyeing any opportunity to snatch up crumbs of...
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Keke Palmer Takes Broadway: A True Cinderella Story
Nearly every little girl idolizes her beloved Disney Princesses. After all, don't all young girls identify with the promise of being a princess? Feeling beautiful and adored, and playing dress up...
View ArticleJulia Roberts, You Stole My Boyfriend -- Now Please Help Me Find My Career
I haven't been on stage since 1991, when I last performed at The Roundabout in New York. I was such the blonde, blue-eyed, pre-millennial darling of that era that my date decided during the curtain...
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If You Like 'Downton Abbey' You'll LOVE These Books
Four years ago I published my first novel. In the U.K. it is called My Last Duchess, a fancy reference to a poem by Robert Browning, but the U.S. title, The American Heiress, makes the subject matter...
View ArticleThe Scalpers From Within
As some of the biggest names in the concert industry are wrapping up their summer tours or, like Garth Brooks, are getting ready to embark on a much anticipated new tour, the general public is often...
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Pretty Little Liars 509: "March of Crimes"
Every week tvtag pairs up with Jaymie Bailey, founder of All Things PLL, to discuss the latest episode of Pretty Little Liars -- so mind the spoilers ahead if you haven't seen "March of Crimes" yet!...
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Alan Thicke Opens Up About Parenting, and Relationship Advice for Son, Robin...
Alan Thicke, the famous father, Jason Seaver on Growing Pains, is on the short list of top TV dads. After the series, he continued his humorous take on fatherhood with two books: How Men Have Babies...
View ArticleA-Sides with Jon Chattman:"Breathe" in You Me At Six
You Me at Six are a five-piece rock band from the UK who are coming onto the scene faster than Super Mario Bros. running away from mushrooms. Unlike the Lambada, which had a lot of buzz a few decades...
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Adam Lyons: From 'Echo' and Beyond
Adam Lyons is standing in a dance club in London. The 22-year-old is accompanied by a group of people (many are his friends). He is in the zone, patiently waiting for the words "Roll Playback." Adam is...
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
La France aux Français (France for the French)? Mais non -- not in The Hundred-Foot Journey. La France is for tout le monde, or so we can feel -- though only after we also make a 100-foot journey into...
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