I don't get to brag on my fellow Kentuckians nearly as often as I would like. However, last week Representatives John Yarmuth and Ben Chandler stood up against Mountaintop Removal in sponsoring the Clean Water Protection Act. That's one reason to cheer. And they're not the only ones from the Bluegra...

Crossing Over gets so wrapped up in its quest for topical resonance that it forgets some of the basic rules of narrative filmmaking. Writer-director Wayne Kramer shortchanges each of the storylines he interweaves into the loose limbed narrative by keeping them consistently focused on pounding home h...

Hey, Jonas Brothers fans! The boys hit the theater today – and in 3D, too! Plus a few street fighters and Harrison Ford . Here’s what’s new in theaters today: Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. If you have an IMAX theater near you, that would be the place to see this movie. But I’m s...

Lately, actress Ashley Judd is kicking ass and taking names! Earlier today Judd gave a spirited talk before several hundred people who oppose strip mining Appalachian Mountains for coal at the annual “I Love Mountains” event.  Judd said: “Let me be clear. Mountaintop removal mining is ...

Preston Smith painted a portrait of President Obama. Then, he painted it again. And again. In fact, according to the Idaho Mountain Express, he painted President Obama 12 times! Then, he sent off all 12 portraits to the Inaugural Purple Ball to be given to Patricia Arquette, Ashley Judd and the rest...

"Sarah Palin Makes New Enemy: Ashley Judd," reads a February 5, 2009 AP headline. But in truth, there's hardly anything new about the controversy in question save for a celebrity chiming in to resurrect the issue of aerial wolf hunts in Alaska: It's not the first time Defenders of Wildlife...

It is time to stop Sarah Palin. - Ashley Judd No, Ashley Judd isn't a few months late, or a few years early, in the battle against Sarah Palin securing an office in the White House. Instead, the actress is narrating a video that calls out the former Vice Presidential nominee for promoting the shooti...

Ashley Judd is speaking out in a new ad campaign for Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund on Sarah Palin’s “anti-conservation agenda” and attack on wolves and bears. “Now back in Alaska, Palin is again casting aside science and championing the slaughter of wildlife,” Judd ...

Ashley Judd is all smiles in a beautiful Monique Lhuillier gown at the Inaugural Purple Ball at the Fairmont Hotel on Tuesday (January 20) in Washington, D.C. The 40-year-old actress selected a mist grey crinkle gazar one shoulder gown, which features an asymmetrically draped bodice and soft bubble ...

What the hell is a "Jewish faith-based production company"? Judaism and things Jewish are not primarily faith-based, they are primarily action-based. Christian stuff is faith-based. What the hell is Larry Mark writing about? Larry Mark writes: I was introduced to Matisyahu, once again; his...