Jay Z and Beyonce: Vegan Power or Celebrity Hype?
It was squat day today at the gym and my strength trainer, Scott Shetler, always provides me with various types of motivation to help me push through our intense workouts. Just as I was getting warmed...
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All About Arcade Fire? A-Sides' Top 53 Songs of 2013; & Delve into the 12...
Fitz and the Tantrums easily made this list. The Cranberries' once said "every one else is doing it, so why can't we?" Well, the Irish 90s act didn't actually say it (they used it as the title for...
View ArticleCreating Your Own Holiday Tradition
It was a big weekend with the Thanksgiving holiday and for the first time I can recall, many of us also celebrated Hanukkah. I love this time of year filled with tradition, gathering together and...
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Mundial Montréal #3: (Part Un) 'World Music Affaires!'
Without a chance to brush up on my poor speaking or understanding of French, I was whisked away from LA to Montréal, Canada after an invite came into my inbox to attend the 3rd annual world music...
View ArticleReThink Review: Reaching for the Moon - Of Parks and Poetry
For a long time, many have criticized the dearth of good leading female roles in movies. If Meryl Streep made a movie in a given year you could reliably expect her to win the Best Actress Oscar (often...
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Breaking Brilliant: Notes From the 'Bad' Writers' Room
The tweets have ended. The message boards and chat rooms have closed down. The water coolers are less crowded. And now I'm free to step back, examine and comment on the utter marvel of television art...
View ArticleOverend Watts: A Rock Star Who Hated Walking and Lived to Write About It!
"A lot of books about people in the rock music business are boring to me...the drugs, the women...the bankruptcies...it's all so repetitive. When I approached publishers and told them my story isn't...
View Article"Bonnie & Clyde" Has Good and Bad Moments
TV Review Jackie K Cooper "Bonnie & Clyde" (Lifetime, A&E, History) There is good and bad in the mini-series "Bonnie & Clyde" just as there was good and bad in the young couple who robbed...
View ArticleThe Mandela You Don't Know: The Savvy Politician Who Used the World Cup to...
If you read nothing else about Nelson Mandela, I encourage you to get your hands on Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation and read the section -- near the end -- about the...
View ArticleTom Daley Is 20 Years Younger Than Dustin Lance Black... So What?
Earlier in the week, 19-year-old British diving champion Tom Daley made a YouTube video in which he revealed that he's in a relationship with "a guy." Several reports have since claimed that the guy in...
View ArticleHonoring Nelson Mandela Through Film
Nelson Mandela, who rallied his country to end apartheid, became the country's first black president, and won the Nobel Peace Prize, died yesterday. The man lived nearly a century, yet his death came...
View ArticleHas Scandal Jumped the Shark?
Last night Scandal turned into 24 and dumped torture porn on us Scandalistas. We knew well enough that Huck enjoyed torturing people, had seen it in nasty detail. It's his drug, it makes him feel. And...
View ArticleAll Hail Godney: Understanding The Deification Of The Untouchable Britney Spears
On Thursday, Vulture's Jody Rosen skewered not just Britney Spears' new album, "Britney Jean," but Britney Spears herself, calling the 32-year-old "antimatter in a belly shirt" and postulating that she...
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Out Of The Furnace: A Fiery Thriller
Christian Bale vs. Woody Harrelson, good vs. evil, the heavy price paid when a decent man takes on bringing down a villain- this is the confrontation in Out of the Furnace. Written and directed by...
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Just Like Magic, Stevie Nicks Reappears In Your Dreams
This must be the Season of the Witch. Not only did the brilliantly warped minds behind American Horror Story, Ryan and Murphy and Brad Falchuk, create a Coven of them for Season 3, but they also made...
View Article'Big Bang Theory' Recap: Sheldon's Big Problem Returns
It's not often that "The Big Bang Theory" recaps what's happened in previous episodes at the top of the show. This show doesn't typically do long arcs or deep callbacks, but instead it engages fans...
View ArticleReThink Review: Inside Llewyn Davis -- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Not...
I've been a fan of the Coen brothers since their second film, Raising Arizona, in 1987. Back then, Joel and Ethan Coen were definitely the weird kids with a distinct voice, but it was one a lot of...
View ArticleMarketing Lessons From Ron Burgundy
Believe it or not, fictional newsman Ron Burgundy is slated to guest host ESPN's signature newscast Sportscenter. If you don't like sports and haven't seen the 2004 classic comedy Anchorman, then you...
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Shaul Schwarz on Narco Cultura: Mighty Movie Podcast
Ah, the romance of the outlaw -- dashing and fearless, living a life of danger and adventure. Except when they're greedy sociopaths leaving a trail of corpses in their wake. Narco Cultura looks into...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire Review
Like every other book-reading teen on the planet, I love the Hunger Games series. When the first movie rolled around, however, I left the midnight premiere majorly disappointed. I was unhappy with the...
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