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Tobago, Jazz and John Legend
Photo Courtesy of Raine Magazine What a whirlwind! The Tobago Jazz Experience has celebrated "its biggest festival" to date, according to Tobago's Tourism Board's Events Coordinator John Arnold....
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Dancing With The Stars: Charlie Bares His Soul and Chest
Olympic gold medalist Charlie White and Sharna Burgess get physical for DWTS Latin Week I admit it. I'm totally flummoxed. Charlie White will do any dance you give him with all the passion and...
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Jon Favreau Is CHEF
Making a good film is art. Making good food is art. Put them together and you have Jon Favreau's newest film Chef, which hits theaters May 9th. Favreau, best known for directing Elf, Iron Man 1 &...
View Article(VIDEO) AOL Announces 16 Video Shows In 2014 NewFront Slate
AOL is touting 16 new video series to advertisers at its 2014 NewFronts event in Brooklyn. Leading the slate, Making A Scene With James Franco will see the actor-director and friends re-make much-loved...
View ArticleDevious Maids Recap: "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (S2, E2)
Devious Maids continued to deliver more secrets this past Sunday as it introduced a new family and served up a couple of shocking plot twists. The episode begins with Peri visiting her doctor. She is...
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Movie Review: Walking With the Enemy
The chilling, opening speech from Hitler sets the tone for Walking with the Enemy. Unlike a biopic such as Schindler's List, Valkyrie or a mini-series like Band of Brothers, but Walking with the Enemy...
View ArticleIntroducing a New Generation of Music
To anyone who knows me, you know that I'm a huge music junkie. The power of music is impeccable and unexplainable. It inspires you to be powerful, loving and most of all, it tells a story. I think that...
View Article'Dinner and a Movie,' Not Dinner and an OTT Stream
"Dinner and a movie" is one of the last affordable, middle-class family outings and has served as the venerable date night for countless romantic relationships both new and old. The American middle...
View ArticleTranscendence: An AI Researcher Enjoys Watching His Own Execution
As an Artificial Intelligence (AI) professor at Berkeley, it was with some discomfort that I watched the assassination of Will Caster (Johnny Depp), an AI professor at Berkeley, by a terrorist group...
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Weaves a Wild Web
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 lifts this franchise to a newfound level of thrilling entertainment. Director Marc Webb, Producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, and Sony Pictures Imageworks deliver a 3D movie...
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Let Rock Rule: Conversations with Alice Cooper and Aerosmith's Joey Kramer,...
A Conversation with Alice Cooper Mike Ragogna: Dude! We're not worthy for Super Duper Alice Cooper! But if we were, Alice, please would you tell us about that film of yours of which we are not worthy?...
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Kevin Smart: Touring Teen Drummer Shares His Secrets
Kevin Smart, an 18 year-old drummer from the East Coast, has become one of the most sought out, in demand musicians today. He's currently touring with all the big names. Kevin Smart knows that your...
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Perez Hilton Opens up About the 'Magical' First Year With His Son And Life as...
There's a lot of insight in a little Twitter bio. Celebrity blogger and TV personality Perez Hilton's (@PerezHilton) reads first and foremost, "a proud dad." It's a shock to many, yet Perez says,...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Robin Roberts: 'Everybody's Got Something'
Veteran broadcaster and Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts joins me tonight. A broadcaster for more than 20 years, Roberts has earned multiple Emmys and done extensive reporting around the...
View ArticleThe Power Struggle Behind the Sterling/Stiviano Tape
It's been in the news for nearly a week now. The bigoted, racist and misogynistic words of Donald Sterling (he admits it), owner of the LA Clippers basketball team, were (not secretly) recorded by his...
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An Open Letter to Pharrell Williams
Dear Pharrell, I've loved you since I saw that creepy red dog on the N.E.R.D album and the days when I couldn't stop singing "She Wants to Move" in the shower. To this day, the word "Mister" makes me...
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Conversations with Newcomer Dylan Gardner, Funk Volume's Damien Ritter and...
Introducing Popster Dylan Gardner Mike Ragogna: Dylan, you have a new album Adventures In Real Time, and you had more than 100 songs to start with. How long did it take to write those 100 songs, and...
View ArticleTV's Leading Ladies: The Almost-50 Somethings Are Killing It
This article was originally published on Better After 50. I was not one of the people who were addicted to soaps, and had their "favorite shows," but that was then. During our child rearing years, we...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of the Rainbow: 9 Good Guys Gone Very, Very Bad
When I told people I had written a book in which Dorothy Gale of Kansas was the villain, almost everyone had the same response: "Uh, what?" The Dorothy of L. Frank Baum's Oz books is the Little Miss...
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Johnny Depp Among the Nanobots: Hour of the Wolf Movie Review of Transcendence
So because of Hour of the Wolf's pre-emption last week, my review of Transcendence, the science fiction romantic thriller in which Johnny Depp's consciousness is loosed on the Web and a number of...
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