Remember where you were when you heard Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life, or Alicia Keys' Songs in A Minor? Like these two albums, you will remember the moment you heard Love, Work and Money, the stunning debut album from visionary musician Josh Charles. It is, quite simply,...

In an age when television programming is scattered across what often seems like thousands of channels, the idea of one channel ruling them all is a joke. There was a time when the three networks, NBC, ABC and CBS commanded the airwaves, but those days are tucked away in the...

Yeah, I know it's only February, but I'm surrendering. Next week, Nick Curran & The Lowlifes will be releasing their new record, "Reform School Girl," and I'm going all in. This IS, and will continue to be, the best record of 2010.

(Sorry,...

I'm not a sports person at all. So, at 11 a.m. on Sunday, when a friend reminded me it was in fact Superbowl Sunday -- I replied with the only question I could think of, "Who's playing halftime?"

With the 'Janet debacle' still in my mind, I was planning on...

Since this if my first post, humor me for one moment and allow me to reveal my socio-political tendencies. I'm an avowed secularist and a proud liberal who supports intelligent, rational discourse. I'm also a passionate supporter of every minority groups' equal rights. Suffice to say, people like me aren't...

Editor's Note: This post has been removed temporarily until The Wolfman opens in theaters, on Friday, February 12.

So MTV has finally admitted what we've all known for years: it's not about the music anymore. On Monday, the network debuted its new logo, with its formerly defining tag-line -- "Music Television" -- gone for good.

Perhaps it's proof that the 29-year-old network is so ubiquitous...

I'm a songwriter. I've also been an actor, a performer, a public speaker, a husband, a dad and -- currently -- the president and chairman of the board of ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers). But I'll always be a songwriter, because creating music is a big...

An Oscar nominee as best foreign-language film, Israel's Ajami is a reminder that things can always -- always -- be worse.

Set in the predominantly Arab neighborhood of Tel Aviv known as Ajami, the film looks at the lives of an intersecting group of Israeli Arabs. The political tensions in...

Welcome to Wife Watch!, the only blog post that ranks the most powerful wives on this week's episode of Big Love.

It's time to climb into the clown car, because "Sins of the Father," the midpoint of Season 5, is a full-on Polygamy Circus.

And... like... I love this show?...

About 60 pilots for scripted network primetime programs will be shot under AFTRA contracts this year, while few - or perhaps none - will be produced under SAG jurisdiction, according to sources close to the two unions, who spoke on condition of anonymity. This continues a trend...

I watched CBS's new Undercover Boss, and I have a question.

What time is the revolution?

Unveiling the series in the post-Super Bowl slot, CBS clearly has high hopes for UnBoss, a reality show for the New Depression. Rich man helps poor man. Beneath...

With Oscar season and Black History Month rolling around at the same time, it's gratifying to see Lee Daniels get recognition for being the first black gay man nominated in the category of Best Director.

However, some media reports got it wrong when they claimed that he is the first...

Photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders brings his signature portraiture to film with HBO's The Black List: Vol. 3, a compilation of interviews with prominent African Americans including Whoopi Goldberg, United Negro College Fund President Dr. Michael Lomax and Precious Director Lee Daniels.

Like Greenfield-Sanders's photography (see his Please Don't Retouch...

It seems like more of the same -- or worse -- at the Academy Awards this season.

With Oscars coverage continuing its five year-plus struggle with uneven formats, rotating guest-hosts, and sheer over-length, what does the Academy decide to do? Add, not subtract, of course: double the number of hosts...

Is Nick Jonas still aiming his act at the Jonas Brothers' target teen-'n'-tween audience... or at their parents? That's the question you might ask after hearing the youngest JoBro's first solo album, Who I Am. ("Solo" may or may not need an asterisk next to it, since the billing for...

Of all the excellent cast of SNL's past few seasons, none have left me as impressed as Fred Armisen--whose skewing impressions of folks like New York Governor David Paterson and Barack Obama have been sources of constant amusement. I've actually been a fan of Armisen's for years, dating back to...