For Violaine Corradi, the composer behind Cirque du Soleil’s latest production to stop in Los Angeles, “Varekai,” the challenge of creating original music for a Cirque show means more than just finding the right notes. Read more...

What award doesn’t Clint Eastwood deserve? He’s been an Oscar-winning director, one of the most recognizable actors in films, a producer, a military man, a lumberjack and the mayor of Carmel, a small California town. Read more...

Frank Black’s innovative guitar-playing and songwriting skills seem to always be one step ahead of the rest. However, despite his major influence upon the music community, Black appears to have a casual attitude about his musical career and seems content to remain on the fringe. Read more...

Leave it to an exuberant Danish duo to put radio programmers and other media types into a tizzy of cultural confusion. Ever since Junior Senior’s party vibes made its U.S. Read more...

This is the story of a middleman ““ a middlewoman to be exact. Sandwiched between the artist and the press, a publicist usually facilitates interviews, instead of actually giving them. Read more...

For the past few weeks, something sinister has been infiltrating my favorite nightly news shows. And just because my friends and family members keep trying to convince me that the normal content of programs like “Access Hollywood” and “Extra” shouldn’t qualify as “news” (clearly these individuals have very screwed up priorities) doesn’t make this recent trend any less disturbing. Read more...

In the past year, numerous films based on comic books including “Hulk” and “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” have been produced in hopes of achieving the box office success of other comic book-based films “Batman” and “Spider-Man.”Â As movie studios vie for the opportunity to adapt another comic book for the big screen, along comes “American Splendor.” But “American Splendor” is the antithesis to the big-budgeted, effects-driven comic book films of the past. Read more...