For the third year in a row, Ecorazzi will descend upon the red carpet for the 6th Annual Global Green Pre-Oscar Party this coming Thursday. The event, as usual, will be a celebrity magnet — drawing such famous names as Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Penelope Cruz, Marisa Tomei, Kate Boswor...

Ad Age reports that celebrities trying to earn some extra scratch from their name's wattage might want to start looking somewhere that isn't a fashion "partnership" with a retail outlet, what with the economy continuing its long, slow swoon and chains all over the country struggling to keep their li...

As good as Obama's speech was at the Lincoln Memorial Concert for him this afternoon, for once it was perhaps not the most inspiring part of the event. Here are some contenders - .Pete Seeger, 89, leading a performance of "This Land is Your Land," belted out by his grandson Tao (powerful voice, soun...

UPDATED: This was supposed to be the Inauguration's make-up moment to gays and lesbians everywhere for the inclusion of the vile and reprehensible homophobe Rick Warren: Bishop Gene Robinson, an openly-gay Episcopalian minister kicking off the week with an invocation on the steps of the Lincoln...

Somewhere between getting drunk at noon and bumming around with truck drivers and pumping up and getting all blown dried up for the media and becoming a lance Armstrong squeeze, Sheryl Crow visited the sacred Trinity Church in Toronto, home to the seminal Cowboy junkies album The Trinity Sessions. A...

My drummer once said, “Two Les Pauls, locked tight through a Marshall stack, makes my dick hard.� For me, it’s a tight vocal harmony. And so, generally speaking, at least two or three tunes from any of Sheryl Crow’s six albums cannot miss. This spring’s Detours included some truly lousy cu...

An unassuming piece of paper with a typewritten paragraph stuck to the front of Kevin Gilbert’s refrigerator in 1996.  Titled “The Religion of Awe-ism,� Gilbert summed up his philosophy of life thusly: This thing is way bigger than I or anybody else on this planet can begin to know or compreh...

Earlier this month, we examined LA Times blogger Todd Martens' attempt to predict the nominees for the Best New Artist Grammy ahead of the Sept. 30 cutoff point for next year's awards. Martens decided to take on the Album of the Year category this week, giving me (and you!) even more to post about a...

Sadly, not all girly song-writing musicians are as easily whipped into shape as Joshua Kelley Heigl. And Jennifer Aniston is discovering this pesky factoid the hard way. In an attempt to gather some overseas materials for her inevitable post break-up scrapbooking sesh, Aniston reportedly spent much ...

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