If Carrie Prejean Can't Handle Larry King, it's Time to Start Debating Toddlers
It seems to me that Carrie Prejean is still living in a world where her looks are powerful enough to help her dodge real questions and be treated like a real pundit.
It seems to me that Carrie Prejean is still living in a world where her looks are powerful enough to help her dodge real questions and be treated like a real pundit.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
Ron Reagan is the son of a president and, weekdays on Air America, he's a voice of reason for many listeners who are trying to navigate the complexities of national and global concerns.
Steve Marmel | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
Carrie Prejean is having a bit of week, isn't she? I mean, one week you're the darling of the conservative movement, and the next thing you know, you're being called a hypocrite.
Tom Morris | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
There is something important to be learned from Jeff Dunham's improbable rise. Passion and belief are often able to create a path forward where none may exist.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment
The eternally youthful Jon Bon Jovi and his disciples have built their ministry upon the same New Jersey rock that Bruce Springsteen assembled his flock, and the band used this album as a slight genuflection to their own glory days.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.05.2009 | Entertainment
This year being the 25th anniversary of the release of the Talking Heads' concert classic Stop Making Sense, I spoke with Talking Heads Jerry Harrison and Chris Frantz on the cult favorite.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment
It's a little surprising that until now, no one has put together a tribute album to folk's fertile days in New York's Greenwich Village.
Jason Richards | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
Clearly, toilet humor is not beneath Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim and their incredibly perverse television series. And they're just getting warmed up.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment
An interview with Train -- conducted over thousands of miles, from scores of hotel rooms -- about their new album, Save Me, San Francisco.
Kim Mance | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment
If you ever wondered what really goes on inside Anthony Bourdain's head, there's a new animated web-series giving the outspoken chef/writer even more room to vent.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.23.2009 | Comedy
Le Bron James wants to dunk on G.W. Bush's ass, break the rim, and shatter the glass. The former President, never one to avoid biting off more than he can chew, issued a trash talking response.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
Although Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard create music from two different perspectives their blend on the soundtrack One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur syncs perfectly.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment
For most of the fifty years since she debuted at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has dedicated her life and music to fighting for equality and social justice, and for bringing about positive change in the world.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment
Filled to the brim with radio staples like "Sara Smile," "Maneater," "Rich Girl," and about 25 other significant charters, Hall and Oates' new 74-track assembly truly is one of the best box sets ever released.
Susan Harrow | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
I know flashing your flesh sells magazine covers and gets people involved in polls, but I find it discouraging at best. These pushed up, pushed out, primped up breasts would lead anyone's mind directly to one thing. I include myself so I won't blame you for being one of them.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment
With Layne Staley's death, Alice In Chains was all but done. But fourteen years later, here we are with something that sounds a lot like what the group would have had they returned to the studio a couple years later.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment
Sounding warmer and the most at home with her recordings since the mid-seventies, Barbra Streisand, the 67-year-old vocalist-supreme, at last reclaims the musical territory she reigned over in the sixties.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
With the new DVD release The Fine Friends Are Here!, Dan Zanes and Friends present colorful music and images that are not just for children, but also for the big kid in all of us.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment
Power-pop group Metro Station played the Staples Center Tuesday night and pretty much set the tone for the act that followed... Miley somebody.
David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.22.2009 | Entertainment
It's not much of a surprise when megastars like Kanye West land in some kind of trouble. Whatever their moral compass may have been, it no longer works in the upper stratosphere.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.22.2009 | Entertainment
So this is what Pearl Jam would sound like after hanging with George Thorogood. It's great to hear the guys trying on old school rock 'n' roll and putting their moniker on it.
Franny Armstrong | Posted 09.16.2009 | Green
If you have a burning idea you need to communicate -- uncensored -- with maximum possible emotional punch and a potential audience of tens of millions, a doc's the way to go.
Kim Mance | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
Universal Orlando Resort, and Warner Bros. today revealed first-ever details about the incredible scope of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.15.2009 | Entertainment
R.E.M. will be releasing Live At The Olympia, a 39-song, two CD set containing "working rehearsals" from 2007. I was lent a track that captures the band's energy and insightful views.
Franny Armstrong | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
We are the most intelligent creature ever to evolve and yet we are about to make the stupidest mistake in all of geological time
Steve Marmel | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment