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Lindsey Stirling: The Phenom with the Violin
Nominated for a Billboard Music Award in the same category as Lady Gaga and Daft Punk. Shined in a harmonious duet with John Legend. Closing in on 4.8 million YouTube subscribers and 630 million...
View ArticleAustin Mahone's Must-Follow Instagram Accounts And The Weirdest Place He's...
Almost a year ago, HuffPost Teen caught up with Austin Mahone about his first album, touring with Taylor Swift and why he's not the next Justin Bieber. As it turns out, the "Banga Banga" singer has...
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Celebrity Collector: Tim Matheson
Photo Credit: Manfred Baumann Tim Matheson has been a fixture on the television screen since the early 1960s. He first caught my attention playing the role of Eric Stratton in Animal House. Since...
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Ours is a theater family. I have two sons currently studying theater in college, and as often as we can, we find our way to the theater. It was therefore no surprise that this mother would find herself...
View ArticleTeen Pregnancy and Beyoncé: What Bill O'Reilly Is Missing
Dear Bill O'Reilly, Hi. My name is Bekah. You don't really need to know much about me, except that I am a teenage girl, my mother was a teenage mom and I listen to Beyoncé (a lot). I wanted to take a...
View Article'Mad Men' Still Madly Watchable
"THINK PINK! Forget that Dior says black or rust. "Think Pink. Who cares if The New Look has no bust. "Now, I wouldn't presume to tell a woman what a woman oughtta think/But tell her if she's gottta...
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The Future of Digital Is Tangible
Thursday, December 12, 1996 Dad just called and said he's already on his way home from work. I really hope we can go to The Purple Legion and buy a new CD today... Maybe Bryan Adams, or Barbra's new...
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Filmmaker Shares Insight On Documentary
If one looks hard enough past the big movie multiplexes, you can still find small art houses and festivals willing to screen indie films, documentaries, and foreign imports. The Irvington Town Hall...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
This post first appeared on July, 11, 2007. To the Young Man on the Plane from Los Angeles to Seattle Who Said of the Movie That Most Passengers -- Male and Female -- Voted to Watch, "I don't watch...
View Article(VIDEO) The Remarkable Journey of Maker Studios, from Back Yard Fun to Huge...
Mega-popular YouTube channel Maker Studios recently sold to Disney for $500 million, but when the founders launched the company five years the goal was quite simple -- make videos and share audiences....
View ArticleThe von Sydow Dynasty: From Kickstarter to Star Wars
Father and son. Legend and artist on the go. Two different generations of Von Sydow face to face for the first time. The legendary actor Max von Sydow ("The Exorcist"; "The Seventh Seal") talks about...
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Talking With Director Steven Knight About His Innovative and Enthralling Film...
Locke may just be one of the best films of 2014. Superbly written and directed by Steven Knight and featuring a dazzling performance by Tom Hardy, Locke is a must-see for anyone who believes that human...
View ArticleSee Me As a Woman First, a Black Woman Second
Yes, the title of this blog post is somewhat inflammatory, but let me explain. I came to the public's attention in 2013 as a media personality vying to become television's first black Bachelorette. My...
View ArticleHow The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies High-Kicked My Sobriety
I'm in mourning for the end of The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies. NPR's Morning Edition reported this week that the old-fashioned musical revue, whose poster boasts, "The world record for the oldest...
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On The 'A' w/Souleo: Arturo O'Farrill Tributes Father's Afro-Latin Jazz Legacy
Many years ago, if you had asked Arturo O'Farrill to pay tribute to the music legacy of his father, Chico O'Farrill, he would have likely said no. During his early adulthood, the Grammy-winning jazz...
View ArticleSteve Tyrell's Nod to "Beautiful" at the Café Carlyle
Now in his tenth year performing at the Café Carlyle, Steve Tyrell started his set this week wondering why audiences rarely ask for songs by the songwriters' names, only by the crooners who made them...
View ArticleKatie Couric and Laurie David Are Fed Up: You Are What You Eat
The skinny is this: See the documentary Fed Up for consciousness awareness regarding food. Katie Couric and Laurie David have joined forces with director Stephanie Soechtig to shine a light on the...
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Conversations with Toto's Steve Lukather, Jenny Sheinman, Jeff Black and Oh...
A Conversation with Toto's Steve Lukather Mike Ragogna: Luke! How you doin'? Steve Lukather: I'm doing great, man! Things couldn't be going better. I just got all this information that the DVD is...
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On Top: 'He Said' Magazine's Gay YouTube Faves
They're young, cute and not afraid to show up in questionable videos online. But unlike the the Kardashians, who could be summed up with the same teaser, these guys have true talent and have harnessed...
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On Being Mary Poppins' Daughter
Last week, my mother and I celebrated the release of our 28th children's book, The Very Fairy Princess: Graduation Girl. Throughout the few days of promotion that we engaged in, from interviews to...
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