Farrah Gray The Essential Lessons that took me from Public Assistance   to a Millionaire -- by the Age of 14 "My story, though unique, is not unlike others who began with nothing more than a dream fueled by sheer determination. I believe my story will remind you of the kid in all of us who know...

Image via Cut Copy's MySpace page. Photo uncredited. After causing a modest stir with album Bright Like Neon Love and tour support slots for Daft Punk and Franz Ferdinand, Melbourne's Cut Copy finally hit their stride in 2008. Their latest album In Ghost Colours went to #1 in the group's native Aust...

American Idol – 3/10/09 – The Round of 13   Seacrest looks grown up for once, Randy is an aging hipster in his Members Only jacket, and the judges get the “big voice” intro. Paula can barely walk in her dress, which looks like something Bjork rejected before attendi...

...was weird. The intro of the 4 judges was strange, silly, and made more so by the fact that some disembodied voice announced them instead of Seacrest. Maybe they wanted to showcase the fact that Paula turned a linen dinner napkin into a dress, idk, it was lame and should not be repeated, Simon's i...

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I'm an avid used book buyer. It's the only way to support my biblioholism. Some say that buying secondhand books is bad for authors because they see none of that money. Others say it gets their work in front of more readers. We posed the following question to this week's panelists: Q: There are argu...

I have had a lot of girl crushes. Tori Amos from about age 16 to 20. She inspired a 10 year run of red hair. Gwyneth Paltrow in "Sliding Doors" was exactly what I wanted my life to be life - sans the tragic ending of course (This crush continues even still). Amelie, aka Audrey Tatou, is po...

By: Dennis Cook Roy Harper Some artists are so marbled into their craft that they've become invisible to most over time. They are an influence felt but rarely named, something experienced second hand through those they've inspired. While Roy Harper may not be a name you know, just ask Jimmy Page, Da...

Mike Viola onstage in Denmark | Photo by Gitte Gammelgaard After a childhood in Boston and living most of his adult life in NY, Mike Viola has arrived...in LA. We met Mike at a screening of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" and had the opportunity not only to watch the film but hear about how Mike an...

This year's Eurovision contest, that annual international circus of lunacy where countries from all over the planet compete for cheeseball pop supremacy, is being held in Moscow. And Georgia has already learned the hard way that Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin doesn't take kindly to snotty lit...