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It is difficult -- well nigh impossible really -- to cover a career like that of Chip Taylor's in just a few hundred words. Taylor (born James Wesley Voight) grew up in a working class family in Yonkers, New York. His father, Elmer Voight, was a golf pro who worked...

Odds are, the word that pops into your mind when I mention Phil Collins is probably something like "Sussudio." It's highly unlikely that the first word you'd think of would be "Alamo," but that's about to change. The talented, multiply lauded singer and musician whose career seems to have had...

Singer/Songwriter, Brechtian Punk Cabaret Priestess, Piano-Slayer, Blogmistress, Performance Artist, Ukelele-Freak, Creativity Muse Amanda Palmer unveiled a Kickstarter campaign early Monday morning to fund her first new studio album release in four years (her last full length album being the widely acclaimed Who Killed Amanda Palmer in 2008). Palmer,...

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So chants Shea Rose in the song "Extraordinary Girl," from her kickass 2011...

Sunday, April 15 is a momentous day on the calendar this year. Not because of taxes. Not because we appear to be trembling on the precipice of spring. Because a program called GIRLS premieres on HBO that night at 10:30 p.m. written, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham, that tells...

Tony Muia knows Brooklyn. And he knows pizza. "I was born, raised, and still live in Brooklyn. To me, there's no better place in the world. I love my hometown and have always had a passion for everything about it," he says. Muia started his own bus tour company, A...

From the moment Bruce Springsteen first strode onstage and exuberantly challenged the Providence Civic Center audience in August 1978, yelling "Are you alive?" before launching into Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues," I was taken up and taken in, entranced and enthralled. That was my first experience at a Springsteen concert, nearly...

Just imagine you're sitting in your own living room and it's nice and cozy and quiet, and across from you in two comfy chairs are Dion DiMucci and Steven Van Zandt talking, for 90 minutes, about Dion's long and amazing career. That's what it felt like last Sunday night at...

Agorafabulous! Dispatches from My Bedroom by Sara Benincasa is the Valentine you should give to yourself today. Especially if you are a) anxious b) scared c) agoraphobic d) wearing an angora sweater e) from New Jersey f) in your first year of college g) a human being, or all of...

Monday February 6 marks the debut for the first of five original series Netflix is currently developing for their 23.5 million-strong subscriber base. Lilyhammer was produced in Norway and its recent debut there garnered the highest ratings ever for a Norwegian dramatic series.

"I'm not interested in documenting man's cruelty to man. We see so much of that in the media. I am interested in highlighting the women -- they are the stronger sex in so many ways. Whenever I see something going on in the world, on our TVs, in the papers,...

The Golden Globes Ceremony signifies without any doubt that we're right smack in the thick of it -- awards season. This is where the rubber meets the road on that slippery slope that leads us straight up to the Main Event: The Academy Awards on Feb. 26. One of the...

Most of us have only heard of SMERSH in the context of James Bond books and films, if at all. SMERSH is actually an acronym for the Russian phrase Smert Shpionam, or "Death to Spies." Until now, no work in the English language has ever come close to giving us...

Much as I forswore never again to take on the thankless task of recapping a Project Runway season from beginning to end like I did last year (unless, ahem, you wanna throw some major cashish my way) we have to, just simply have to, watch the PR All Stars premiere...

As 2011 swings around to its inevitable conclusion, the Rubbernecker feels the need (okay, you can call it an addiction) to fete this year's TV glories and gories. And there were quite a few of each. As you may know I have a fondness for the ticky-tacky known as Reality...

The Monterey International Pop Festival occurred during a three day period in June 1967, the first large-scale event of its kind. It predated Woodstock by over two years but is not nearly as well known. Yet its very existence ripped a seam in our cultural zeitgeist and changed pop culture...

Savvy Motowners no doubt will know the lovely Amy Gore, the former heart and soul of garage rock combos the Gore Gore Girls (famously tagged "the Ronettes meet the MC5") and Gorevette (with power pop icon Nikki Gorevette). Well, she's back with a new band -- Amy Gore and her...

As today is 11-11-11, it bears noting that you can have your elevenses at Alice's Tea Cup which has three glorious locations in Manhattan: one on the upper west side (102 W. 73rd St.) and two on the upper east side (156 E. 64th St. and 220 E. 81st St.)....

Actual Title: Finale, Part Two

Oh, My Lord of the Rings. Well if you don't know by now who won Project Runway, you've clearly been under some motherfreakin' rock, so let's just get this out of the way right now and move on to snarkily discuss some of the best...

Actual Title - Finale, Part I

We're in the home stretch now, cats 'n' kittens. I'm going to attempt to streamline this week's recap so we can fully examine the Final Four individually and make our assessments as to their winnability for the endgame, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week (insert audio...