I Tagged Along With an EDM DJ for a Night in New York. Here's What Happened.
Last Thursday night, I had my first real music-writing gig. I was very late. Headed to dinner at LAVO with an Australian House DJ, his publicist and three other freelancers and somehow I was the one...
View ArticleFriends In Fiction
It started when I was younger with the young adult books that I would check out from the library. The Babysitters Club was one of my favorite book series because the girls had this incredible bond of...
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Live in the Vineyard Adds a New Twist: Fresh Talent
For the past several years, Bobbii Hach-Jacobs and Claire Parr have made it their business to pluck the best new artists out of a crowd of talented performers and turn an hour gig in Napa Valley into...
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Sweet Covers O' Mine: The Top 15 Cover Songs
Photo credit: tumblr.com source: ruinscape via: let--it--roll I've been a music junkie ever since I could remember. I'll never forget being four years old and asking my mom to cut the shoulders off of...
View ArticleA-Sides with Jon Chattman: Hedwig Co-Creator Stephen Trask Turns Up the...
My father is a Broadway junkie. He can't get enough, and it's been that way for decades. Often times when I go with him to a show, I know he's "into" it by his use of the word "wow" after nearly every...
View ArticleThe Lovely Angie Dickinson
"IN AMERICA, sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it's a fact," said the obsessively factual Marlene Dietrich. •SO, what with the chilly month of December here, I thought we'd think upon...
View Article'Downton Abbey' and 'The Beverly Hillbillies'? They're Practically The Same...
If you, like me, are a Boomer who is addicted to Downton Abbey, that show just might remind you of a wildly popular TV show of our youth, a 1960s classic that reflected the essential culture of the...
View Article(VIDEO) Web Star iJustine on Branded Video and Her Own Pizza Hut Pizza
CHICAGO -- She's has successful consumer tech show on AOL, has more than two million YouTube subscribers, 1.4 Twitter followers - Internet video host Justine Ezarik "iJustine" is a new-wave internet...
View ArticleMake #GivingTuesday Ebola's Ice Bucket Moment
Our world has never experienced an Ebola epidemic like the one happening in West Africa right now. While it took time for the global community to realize the enormity of this disaster and mobilize a...
View ArticleSix Life Lessons We Can Learn From the Movie: Interstellar
1. There are many more secrets left to be discovered Interstellar showed us that there are many more things to discover in this world. There could be planets in another galaxy with different species....
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In Conversation With Pili Montilla
A graduate from Boston College, Pili Montilla is an entertainment reporter and producer. Pili has interviewed renown celebrities, including Sandra Bullock, Ricky Martin, Gwen Stefani, Daddy Yankee,...
View ArticleBetween Ferguson and the Reaction to the Star Wars Trailer, Racism Is Alive...
Perhaps at some point early in its development, the addition of comments under YouTube videos was probably seen as a positive societal advancement in which consumers were encouraged to help sculpt...
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Beyond Avicii: The Swedish Techno Mafia
As Sweden prepares to put Avicii's face on a new stamp, it seems that this country of less than 10 million people is dominating the global mainstream music scene more than ever. From Max Martin's...
View ArticlePLL: What Would You Give the LiArs for Christmas?
The Pretty Little Liars Christmas special "How the A Stole Christmas" is only a week away and this past fall tvtag and Jaymie Bailey, founder of All Things PLL, were given a special challenge directly...
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11 Grown-Up Songs to Play When You Can't Listen to 'Frozen' One More Time
Drive time used to be your own. But now, even your Sirius/Spotify/actual CDs have given in to the tidal wave of kid. Yes, you've got to feed the beast. But there are ways to keep the kids content...
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Is There a Neurological Reason Why Friends Was Such a Successful Show?
In what ways was 'Friends' unique? What was in 'Friends' that is not in other sitcoms these days?: originally appeared on Quora: The best answer to any question. Ask a question, get a great answer....
View ArticleAn Inside View of Jehovah's Witnesses: A Interview With Director Gregorio Smith
I recently had the opportunity to view a new documentary about the experiences of contemporary Jehovah's Witnesses and was so intrigued by what I saw that I wanted to know more and thought my readers...
View ArticleThe Greatest Gatsby of Them All
Given that most of us are familiar only with the 1974 (featuring Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan) and 2013 (with Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, respectively)...
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Wong Kar-Wai's 'The Grandmaster' Pays Tribute to Bruce Lee's Teacher Ip Man
Nothing beats Wong Kar-Wai's stylized cinematic flair, and he punches his characteristic nostalgic imprint on the world of martial arts in his latest theatrical release, The Grandmaster. Opening with...
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Galyn Susman Talks About Pixar's First Ever Christmas Special, Toy Story That...
So what's been going on with the Toy Story gang since we last saw Buzz, Woody & Co. on the steps at Bonnie's house, as they sadly watched Andy drive off to college? Quite a lot, actually. On the...
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