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Kate Davis: All About That Bass but So Much More
Video virality can be had in the musical cyberworld if you've got "all the right junk in all the right places." Bassist/singer Kate Davis would be a multimillionaire if she had a dollar for every click...
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Female Comics Are Making a Statement About Feminism, And It's Awesome
At her Q&A interview, aptly titled "Meet Cute," at the New Yorker Festival in October, actress, comedian and writer Mindy Kaling spoke about the role of women in the entertainment industry. A...
View ArticleMad About the '60s ... Wild Dr. Strangelove at 50 Reassures That...
(Note: This is one in a series of occasional pieces in the run-up to the series finale of Mad Men with cultural relevance to the period of the show and today.) General "Buck" Turgidson: Mr. President,...
View ArticleHere's the Full Story About the Vine I Made
As humans we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake. I, Nash Grier, have made more mistakes than I can remember....
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Diffused Congruence Podcast: The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi on His New Book
This month we're pleased to be joined by actor, comedian, and writer Aasif Mandvi as he talks about his journey as a working actor to becoming The Daily Show's "Senior Foreign Looking Correspondent."...
View ArticleBlack Film Trailblazer's Story from 1920s Told in New Film
When he found the story of a little-known but highly successful black filmmaker from the 1920s, music producer Bayer Mack knew he had to correct history. Oscar Micheaux: The Czar of Black Hollywood is...
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Politics of the Oscar Race With Richard Dreyfuss and Sally Kirkland
Brent Roske discusses the politics of the Oscar race with Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss and Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland who's gunning for another nomination for this years 'Archaeology of a Woman'....
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A-Sides With Jon Chattman: 'Tis the Season for Kelly Clarkson to Be Awesome
Photo credit: Glenn Sweitzer, Fresh Films + Design Kelly Clarkson and the holidays are almost synonymous now. She covered classic tunes on an American Idol LP over a decade ago, and they still are a...
View ArticleHGTV Star Taniya Nayak Becomes Brand Ambassador to Ellen DeGeneres
You may ask who is Taniya Nayak? If you are an avid HGTV or Food Network viewer, you'll know exactly who Taniya Nayak is. Host of "House Hunters On Vacation," "Design To Sell" and appearances on the...
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Twelve Days of Burlesque
On the twelfth day of Christmas Harold Minsky gave to me . . . 12 strippers stripping 11 flashers flashing 10 tappers tapping 9 groins a-grinding 8 butts a-bumping 7 seamstresses sewing 6 police...
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Movie Review: Inherent Vice -- Tripping... and Stumbling
I was engaged for the first hour of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice -- and frustrated into raging impatience by the final 90 minutes. So -- 40 percent? Not a passing grade. Inherent Vice...
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Steven Lee Olsen: Nashville's Next Big Thing?
"I'm a product of 90s country," admits Toronto-born, Nashville-tested singer-songwriter Steven Lee Olsen. "I grew up listening to Garth and Bryan White and George Strait and Vince Gill. Those are the...
View ArticleOh, Baby, It's a Wild World
When I bumped into DJ Pierre Robert at the Tower Theatre, he had more on his mind than music. It's something of a running joke: When I see him, he seeks to engage me in political discussion, while I...
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Crime Of The Century: Chatting with Roger Hodgson, Simon & Garfunkel and Joni...
KILL MY COQUETTE'S "CLOSE TO ME" EXCLUSIVE photo credit: Brandise Danesewich According to Kill My Coquette's Natalie Denise Sperl... "'Close To Me' is a love song. Its about a boy too afraid to let...
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4 Celebrities Named for 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
It won't be long until genealogy fans and history buffs can get another hit of watching celebrities time travel to their roots. TLC's next season of "Who Do You Think You Are?" begins on February...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Angelina Jolie
Tonight I'm joined by Academy Award-winning actress and director, Angelina Jolie. Her film, Unbroken which tells the real life story of Olympian Louis Zamperini's heroic struggle to stay alive during...
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Did You Watch 'You Can't Do That on Television?' Here's Why You Should Have
(Christine McGlade headshot for You Can't Do That on Television, photo provided by Christine McGlade) Once upon a time, long before the advent of the Internet, and well before we all carried cell...
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Here We Are Again: Kukla, Fran and Ollie
As I've mentioned often, I love Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (and Mortimer Snerd). The only other that equals them for me is Burr Tillstrom and Kukla, Fran and Ollie. I've tried to find video of...
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On With the Show Tunes: A Refueled Fleetwood Mac Truck Delivers Again
Putting on a show to match the grandeur and longevity of Fleetwood Mac is a massive undertaking, but Stevie Nicks needed just a minute to personalize it for the crowd of mostly Coloradans in the...
View ArticleIf '80s Songs Were Written Today
Young people, in order for you to understand this blog, you need to be aware of a dark time in human history. There was a time -- brace yourselves -- when people did not have smartphones or even...
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