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#Rowdie: Introducing Mitch Goudy, Plus Andre Costello and The Cool Minors'...
A Conversation with Mitch Goudy Mike Ragogna: Mitch, you've got a new album, #Rowdie, and this is your second album, right? Mitch Goudy: Yes, this is. MR: Why "#Rowdie"? Why a hashtag? MG: This album...
View ArticleSerial: Why Is It So Popular?
Serial is the hottest new podcast that's working everybody up into a lather. It's the number one podcast not only in the United States, but also Australia, and the United Kingdom. If you haven't...
View ArticleNew Lifetime Reality Show Will Turn Nuns Into Kardashians
Catholic nuns deserve to be treated like celebrities. The nuns that I know are a bunch of bad ass women who make the world a better place on a daily basis. They are brave, accomplished and brilliant....
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Thanksgiving with Nick & Lauren Carter
Nick & Lauren Carter - Photo Courtesy of The Carters I think many of us are grateful Thanksgiving comes just once a year. After consuming a weeks allotment of turducken, green bean casserole and...
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The Lucent Dossier Experience Returns to Las Vegas on 12/5 And 12/6
Running away to join the circus has become much more enticing since the emergence of electro-cirque tribe, The Lucent Dossier Experience. Combining a neo-tribal, steam punk aesthetic with orchestral...
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Why You Should Care That Tim Cook and Michael Sam Are Gay
Have you heard the news that Apple CEO Tim Cook is gay? Are you thinking, "OK, was anybody asking?" or perhaps more pointedly, "Who gives a flying fuck?"? Then this blog post is for you! First, I have...
View ArticleWhy Interstellar Should Be Taken Seriously -- Very Seriously
A few of my closest friends are physicists. In fact, when I went to see Interstellar, I made sure one of them was at my side. My physicist pal and I loved the movie, and to us (especially the...
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On Sunday last week, after a wonderful screening of Back on Board: Greg Louganis, I had an opportunity to indulge my other passion, acting! We had a wonderful backers' reading of Spring at the...
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Diffused Congruence Podcast: Serial's Rabia Chaudry
Since its launch last October, the Serial podcast has taken the country by storm. Reporter Sarah Koenig's gripping investigation into the 1999 murder of high schooler Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent...
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'Stand Up for What You Care About': The Ajyal Youth Film Festival in Doha
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The story of a brilliant man, Alan Turing, brought to suicide after being disgraced for being gay, the movie The Imitation Game reflects the sexual politics of a bygone era. In the midcentury,...
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"Welcome To Fairfax" Ignites Renewed Entrepreneurial Spirit
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Neither Union Carbide nor its successor, Dow, has apologized to the people of Bhopal, India, where what is still known as the world's worst industrial disaster took place 30 years ago this week. The...
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Horror With a Woman's Touch -- Not Your Average Deadly Movie
Berkshire County closed Shriekfest Horror Film Festival in October, and came away with the coveted Best Horror Feature Film award -- and for good reason: it's frightening, as one would expect, but it's...
View ArticleLive & Dangerous: Holidays 2014
Tis the season! And what better way to end the year than with some live music. Here are our recommendations for three end-of-year shows, featuring some exciting emerging acts that are sure to be the...
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This post is dedicated to taking a closer look at the work of some of the best realistic tattooers in the world. Realistic tattoos are inspired by the Realism Art Movement which was launched in France...
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Must See for Kids and Inner Child ... Swamp Juice ... the 3D Puppet Show
I always figure if I ever go to prison I can still make theater with dancing my hand against the cell wall. But that would imply a room with a view so that light could shine in--- I guess I better not...
View ArticleInterstellar - Time Blown
Mind blown? More like time blown -- three hours and about 2 percent of my hearing (the theater must've assumed that by turning the volume up to "11," it'd seem better...) that I'll never get back, lost...
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It might seem safe to assume that with more than a half dozen Broadway openings under your belt, success could be measured by incredible talent and critical acclaim. However, in the case of composer...
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I remain, a week following the experience of Whiplash (the picture can't just be watched), flummoxed. Awash in critical praise, Whiplash has definitely hit a chord with many people, but I ask what the...
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