The 10 Best Things Currently Happening in the Music Scene
1. Este Haim's Bassface By now, anyone who has heard of Haim has probably heard of Este Haim's ridiculous-looking-and-totally-incredible "bassface." As younger sister and band member Alana once said,...
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The Apache Relay's Time Is Here
There are few albums that strike you at first listen as, for lack of a better word, "important." The Apache Relay's newest is among them. More than a long-awaited sequel, it represents a much-needed...
View Article25 Realities to Consider BEFORE You Sign a Contract to Make a Reality...
Ever since we wrapped filming for TLC's Wedding Island reality show last year, I've been joking that I wanted to write the "Idiot's Guide to Doing Reality Television" or "RealityTV for Dummies."...
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20 Years of Honoring Mid-Career Avant-Garde Artists
What's it like to be an avant-garde artist in a country where free expression can flourish, and not be able to earn a decent living? To be an artist who is trying to express honest, creative feelings...
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Pioneer From the Projects: The 'Dyn-o-mite!' Life of Jimmie Walker
You usually don't consider a pioneer as someone raised in the razor-wire, graffiti-strewn projects of the South Bronx. Or someone who once got their start opening community rallies for the militant...
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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Transcendence
It's some kind of irony that the experience of watching a film called Transcendence is far from transcendent. Not that director Wally Pfister doesn't try: The story of a scientist working in A.I....
View ArticleMy Boyfriend's Brilliant Idea Took Us Straight to President Obama
My boyfriend Sean is a kind soul and dedicated musician. He's hopeful and a bit old-fashioned -- old-fashioned in a way where he acquired his first smartphone less than two months ago. Hopeful in that...
View ArticleA Conversation With Eckhart Tolle
One of my favorite moments on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday came when Oprah asked the poet Mark Nepo what he considers sacred. When he replied, "Conversations like this are sacred to me," Oprah said,...
View ArticleWe Are All Connected by Water: Our Elected Officials Must Be Held Accountable...
Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014 marked the four-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill ("BP Spill"). The BP spill should have been a wake-up call for elected officials and organizations...
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Live From the Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival, now in its 13th edition, has always been one of those betwixt/between events for me. Coming in April, it trails the two big festivals of the year's beginning: Sundance and...
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DWTS: Charlie White Hasn't Twerked It Out Yet
Charlie White and Sharna Burgess on DWTS "Party Anthem Night" The judges wanted hip action the last time Charlie White tackled a Latin routine. They got a little more this week. But those hips, to...
View ArticleBeneath the Paint: 'Star Shiner' Reveals It -- Warts and All
"STARS CAN ask the strangest things of artists and then make the job impossible to do. It is a great relief when an artist has a few like that in their career. Unfortunately, mine was littered with...
View ArticleWhen "Breaking News" Isn't Anymore
"Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain is still dead!" For months on end, Saturday Night Live got big big laughs and results from this on-going "news" announcement, made repeatedly in 1975 during...
View ArticleThe Voice's Audra McLaughlin: 12 Things You Need to Know
By Katie Parsons for KnowMore.tv Audra McLaughlin will step on The Voice stage tonight to perform for millions of viewers and superstar judges Blake Shelton (her mentor), Usher, Adam Levine and Shakira...
View ArticleMen of Tai Chi
I saw this movie, Man of Tai Chi (helmed by Keanu Reeves), and at first blush thought it ridiculous, and relentlessly so, but being that it was on streaming video, I did have the opportunity to go...
View ArticleAn Open Letter Regarding the Open Letter
I hope that you are reading, furious writers of the open letter, because I want to thank you. In today's crass, tweet-fueled world, there is something exquisite about this throwback to communication of...
View ArticleThe Scariest Film Ever Made
The last 60 days of this so far grand year were spent monitoring my first Indiegogo campaign. It's been more of an experiment than anything else. One that wants to understand the potential of raising...
View ArticleA-Sides on the Red Carpet: O'Neill Theater Center Honors Streep in New York
Meryl Streep is used to awards by now. She is, after all, the reigning queen of cinema and has held that fictitious but totally accurate title for decades now. On Monday evening, however, her deep...
View ArticleGod Goes to the Movies: Unholy Trinity!
The Christian Crusade has hit the multiplex in force this Spring. No sooner did Darren Aronofsky's brooding, complex, environmental cautionary Noah see dry land, than three new, more conventional...
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The Word From the EBU -- Sietse Bakker Dishes On Everything
Sietse Bakker is the EBU's event supervisor for the Eurovision Song Contest, which makes him a rather big deal in Eurovision Nation. Despite his various commitments, he was nice enough to sit down for...
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