In 2006 the London Housing Authority discovered the skeletal remains of a 38 year old woman in a bedsit in North London. What was remarkable was that the victim, Joyce Vincent, had been dead for three years. Her corpse had laid undisturbed while her TV set played the BBC continuously. The shocking...
Can we all just get over high school? Seriously, Nicholas Sparks is not helping us forget all the crazy adolescent emotions we had what we just did not know any better. Every single book that he comes out with speaks like some kind of worship to the whole lost love, first love, and the love you...
Two days before Madonna’s hyped up Super Bowl halftime performance on Feb. 5, she premiered her first single, “Give Me All Your Luvin',” from her latest album, MDNA. Featured in both the song and music video are rappers Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. Along with the single's debut came the lackluster...
The American indie pop band Fun. has just released their second album titled Some Nights. Nate Ruess, who was formerly a member of the band The Format, formed the band Fun. He left Arizona to come to New York to work with Andrew Dost and Jack Antonoff. Together, they recorded their first album...
On Wednesday evening, February 15th, I had the pleasure of seeing Carole Demas in her cabaret performance, Summer Nights. This performance celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the musical Grease. Demas originated the role of Sandy in it on Broadway. It was an intimate show at the Laurie Beechman...
Korean American singer/songwriter, Priscilla Ahn’s songs have acquired the seriousness of childhood, an essence that makes her second studio album, When You Grow Up, an endeavor that is at times quite solemn and delicate. Tracing the trajectory of her sophomore full-length release, the dainty and...
In last week's mid-season premiere, and subsequently talked about on AMC's Talking Dead, as well, there was only one zombie kill in the entire episode. That was certainly not the case this week. As the episode opens, Lori is in her overturned car with a pair of walkers outside trying to get in....
Episode three of Spartacus: Vengeance starts off with a nice little blood bath, with Spartacus and his men dispatching a group of Romans who were taking slaves to the mines. As one Roman lay on the ground hoping to be spared by Agron and Nacir, he tells them of Naevia and her whereabouts. Agron...
In the 13 years since The Blair Witch Project , the subgenre of found footage movies has exploded into a surplus of amateurish, hackneyed filmmaking. The genre seems to be an excuse for poor writing and untamed, frenetic direction; it is supposed to allow for this natural and raw feeling from its...