Lots of talk about Bishop Allen, Cursive, The Number Twelve Looks Like You and the new Punk Goes Pop collection. Hate to say it, but I’m not really looking forward to any of them much. A few that might get overlooked: Mirah’s new release is awesome. Portland’s repping pretty strong...

All right, let's wrap this all up with some pictures (below) closing thoughts on the NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship red carpet/draw party last night. First, job well done to Jon Miller of NBC for growing this event to what it is. This was easily the biggest red carpet crowd with the most e...

Quotations about Attitude Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude Zig Ziglar It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. Annie Gottlier Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves mis...

  Many of you have by now seen the "naked" Vanity Fair shoot by Annie Liebowitz, featuring the men they're calling Comedy's New Legends: Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and Jonah Hill. What with the hairless nude suits, the pudge, and the lack of genitalia, they're odd...

In this masterful postmodern art video we have Annie Leibovitz pretending to be Yoko Ono pretending to be a distraught Chinese woman at an airport who has missed her flight. The whole point of this video has something to do with the gay marriage. There's a bullshit artist statement that COMPLETELY e...

The L.A. media ranks continue to be winnowed. The Media News Group is turning long-time Daily News critic Bob Strauss into an entertainment editor, leaving colleague Sean Means in Salt Lake City (who is keeping track of the declining numbers of film critics) as one of the chain's surviving movie rev...

Money tight in this tuff economy? Finding it hard to make ends meet and keep the bills paid? If you have tried to apply the law of attraction, and principles shared in The Secret, then tune in to Sedona Spiritual Talk Radio as we share tools for "Money Manifesting". Annie B Lawrence host of Sedona S...

The always amazing Krazy Fiesta just had remixes featured on two top class records, the first one was on the Kompakt released “Skate Attack” single by Norwegian disco prince + princess SkatebÃ¥rd/Annie and the second one on the “Street Jizz EP” from Kansas City group Ssion. N...

*MP3: Anni Rossi - "The West Coast" I am very excited to have the always wonderful Anni Rossi here on MFR for next few weeks. She will be sending in exclusive diary entries from her current tour and mix tapes of what she's been listening to in the van. "Friday Feb 7 Played in Long Beach tonight. It ...

  Netflix will offer a streaming-only service, but apparently it still won't be available to Mac users. [Wired] Former Hugh Hefner flame and original Girl Next Door Holly Madison has split from Criss Angel after nearly four months. [Yahoo!] It looks like there's some not-so-hot lesbian ...