Clik here to view.
Rack & Ruin: The One Web Series You Should Be Watching During Fashion Week...
Rack & Ruin from Women You Should Know® on Vimeo. Now that Fashion Week is officially underway in New York City, don't be surprised with the overdose of eye candy. The glitz, the glamour, the...
View ArticleThe Best Singles of the 1990s That Missed the Top 50, Part 2
These pop singles should've ruled the charts in the 90s -- or at least dented the Top 50, but for whatever reasons did not. But charts be damned, I'll love them forever. This list continues...
View ArticleJoy, Fear, and Twerking: The Glory of Amber Rose
Amber Rose set the Internet on fire over the weekend when she uploaded a video of herself twerking to celebrate her husband Wiz Khalifa's album hitting number one on the Billboard 200. The video was...
View ArticleA Short and Sweet Tribute to Joan Rivers
So... let me tell you a little something about Joan Rivers. In 1983, Joan was at the height of her popularity guest-hosting for Johnny Carson and had released her fantastically funny and iconic album,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Telluride Film Festival: Movies Large and Small
On a post-screening panel, the key production staff of Apocalypse Now. From left: cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, director Francis Ford Coppola, writer John Milius, editor Walter Murch, and producer...
View Article37: A Final Promise
"37: A Final Promise" is an incredible love story based on actual events that is about euthanasia, ALS and suicide. Joe Leydon of Variety calls this film "an old fashioned tearjerker set to a goth...
View Article5 Most Overrated Songs of the 1990s
As one of the most pivotal decades for music, the 1990s have often been praised for birthing the grunge, indie rock, punk rock and nerd rock movements. I myself am an avid listener of all of these...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 5 Must-See Acts at Boston Calling
One of Hopper's editors, Virginia Nicholson, is headed to Boston Calling this week. Here is her take on the five must-see acts playing Boston Calling. Boston Calling, via Dave Levy As festivals have...
View Article10 Things I Know About the Late Joan Rivers
Death is always difficult, even when we expect it. I never met Joan Rivers, but followed her career, and based on her age and the fact that she was in a coma, I anticipated her death. Doesn't make it...
View ArticleJoan Rivers Remembered
When I was able to sit down with Joan Rivers for my nightly program just two months ago, it was the fulfillment of a 10-year quest to have her on the show. When I first moved to Los Angeles 27 years...
View Article'How Do We Treat the Little People, Joan?' I Asked. And She Said, 'Why, We...
She had other writers, and funnier ones, but when the University of Pennsylvania asked Joan Rivers to give one of the commencement addresses in 1989, she asked me to help her write it. I think she...
View ArticleWho Is Arthur Chu?
When I first "went viral," I was as skeptical about "why this Arthur Chu guy is even a thing" as much as anyone else, believe me. The weirdest thing about this year was seeing an explosion of media...
View ArticleHail, Hail, A Vagenius Has Left This Realm: Joan Rivers, Rest In Peace
She was always surprising us, always defying the status quo, always courageous, loud opinionated and damning. Her movie, The Girl Most Likely, starred Stockard Channing and was the funniest thing I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Music Industry Executive Meets Social Advocate: Chatting with Lava Records...
photo courtesy Lava/Republic Records A Conversation with Jason Flom Mike Ragogna: Jason, let's catch up on you. You were recently honored by Russell Simmons, Michael Bloomberg and all these folks from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hamilton Leithauser Chats Post-Walkmen Black Hours
High school marked my musical awakening, a time when I started to really construct my own identity outside of my mom's water-damaged Cat Stevens records, my dad's old Johnny Cash, and the popular boy...
View ArticleChuck D on The Tavis Smiley Show
Tonight I'm joined by Chuck D, who as the leader and co-founder of the politically astute group Public Enemy, has never shied away from challenging the status quo. With his new solo digital album, The...
View ArticleMelissa Rivers' Courageous Decision
Melissa Rivers made the hardest decision we ever have to make -- she took her 81-year-old mother, Joan Rivers, off life support. While Melissa Rivers' brave decision played out in public, this happens...
View ArticleLet's Not Pretend Joan Rivers Was A Feminist Icon
In the wake of Joan Rivers' death, she's been rightly celebrated for her sharp sense of humor and trailblazing work in the entertainment industry. But now Time has gone so far as to call her a...
View ArticleTrisha Yearwood Lights Up Allstate Arena on First Night of World Tour
A few hours before the kickoff of his world tour on September 4, Garth Brooks gushed about his wife and tour mate, Trisha Yearwood, in a pre-show press conference. Brooks swore his band members "stand...
View ArticleCher -- Unending, Immortal -- She Is Not Stepping Aside
"I'M SO the phoenix!" That's what the one and only and eternal Cher tells AARP magazine this month. The star, who will return to New York with her "Dressed To Kill" concert later this month, tells...
View Article