Grammy Goes Pop And Never Comes Back
Grammy has always walked a tightrope between what is commercial and what is artistically satisfying, but the 2010 nominees show that commercialism and corporatism have a strong hold on the awards.
Grammy has always walked a tightrope between what is commercial and what is artistically satisfying, but the 2010 nominees show that commercialism and corporatism have a strong hold on the awards.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.26.2009 | Living
Holidays are for families. I am so proud to be a member of a community that acknowledges that by creating families from the most unlikely of people in the most unusual of ways.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The fact is, no civil right should be left up to the masses. Our founders were very clear about equality in the Constitution.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
How could any American, any human, stand by as another is brutally raped? How could other Americans join in, jeer, take photos and videos with their c...
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
President Obama's speech to the Human Rights Campaign was inspirational, stirring, and, like most performances not backed up by any action, meant nothing.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Dan Choi's poignant point fell on deaf ears at his hearing and while he is still an active soldier, he has been recommended for discharge under Don't Ask, Don't Tell, something the Commander in Chief could halt.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
There's a wacked out reward system going on in world culture these days
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment
As in true Hollywood fashion, Elle gets her man (the right one) and happy endings are doled out all around to the deserving, the audience stands and cheers and the curtain falls.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Let's hope Barack does more than award Harvey Milk: Let's hope he takes the spirit and lessons Milk taught and actually begins changing things for members of his country still oppressed by institutionalized bigotry and religious dogma.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.27.2009 | Entertainment
He died trying. He kept going. He gathered up his "mess" and always kept it moving forward.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
The recent Cash for Clunker legislation passed by Congress as part of the $106 billion war funding bill is a complete and total waste of a billion dollars short term, four billion long term.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Our leaders have all morphed in to one large, non-identified, political animal that proports to stand for something but has ended up standing for very little at all.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.11.2009 | Style
As America retools and rethinks the way we move about, motorcycles have got to be part of the national solution.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Time to evolve past Joe the Plumber, past Rush Limbaugh, past the politics and ideology that verge on those that launched the Spanish Inquisition.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
It's time America wake up to the fact that Christians in this country have become just as radicalized (albeit in other ways) as those who pervert Islam (or insert religion here) elsewhere.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Never again, we won't be terrorized, we can't let them win, we're more prepared than ever before.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 12.03.2009 | Entertainment