Zelma Redding is fierce. Think twice before sampling any of Otis' music illegally. She will be on the phone in two seconds yelling, "That's my husband's work. You can't steal it!!" No one messes with Otis' music. No one messes with Zelma.

She learned the hard way. She was...

Like millions of fans worldwide, I'm obsessed with the TV show Glee - it's High School Musical for adults. All the characters are brilliantly flawed with loveable dark sides, smart wicked humor, songs that I love and love to hate, and I see my own dorky high school self in...

I was called up on to choose this year's Hunky Santa - a coveted spot for a male specimen to become the holiday spokesman for Los Angeles shopping spot The Beverly Center.

I could ask, what kind of man would even audition for something like this? But I can't,...

Most film festivals celebrate the directors and actors of the silver screen with glitzy red carpets and paparazzi. However, imagine movies with no music - no score to complete the emotional pictures of characters and circumstance; no lingering theme in memory after leaving the theatre that somehow captures the entire...

Stations are threatening to flip to talk, religion and sports. Or even worse, only play hit songs. Why?

The music industry wants radio to pay for playing music. Radio stations currently pay the songwriters and publishers of songs, but not the artists performing the work (which often is different...

"We just found out our new album is No. 1," Eddie Vedder told the packed crowd during the Pearl Jam show at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. "We had some No. 1 albums a while ago. We didn't give a shit then." He paused for a moment, gave a...

The Dalai Lama smiled mischievously and said, "I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?" The comment was made during his International Freedom Award acceptance speech, which was presented to him by the National Civil Rights Museum.

His Holiness' message is always...

The secret service has to wait for the ducks at the Peabody Hotel to make their grand red carpet entrance to the lobby fountain before they can do one more security check on the Dalai Lama's floor. Once secure - half the agents headed to the airport, while the others...

I love the Beatles, don't get me wrong. I worship and adore. Paul McCartney in concert is a religious experience. But I'm over it. I'm over Beatlemania. I want it to stop. Why? Why now? Ah, a little thing called sound recording copyright.

In 2012, the Beatles first recorded...

The woman who cuts my hair is stressed out all the time. Her clients drive her crazy and she's working long hours to make ends meet. Last time I saw her, I told her she should take a yoga class to destress. "I can't afford yoga, are you kidding?" I...

Where were all the weeping fans, the artists who hail him as their hero, the radio DJs who can't stop playing his music? Where were they 10 years ago? Oh right. Everyone thought Michael Jackson was a freak -- a plastic surgery addicted child molester. His last studio album "Invincible,"...

I wanted to buy Green Day's new album 21st Century Breakdown. I could have downloaded but I desired to touch it, look at the CD art, and own a hard copy. I'm old school sometimes.

Also, I didn't want to wait for shipping from Amazon.com. No, I needed it...