Startling as it may be, last week (Saturday, September 24, to be exact) marked the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvanas Nevermind. The Experience Music Project in Seattle, which opened an and Seattle grunge in April 2011, hosted a on September 20, which seems to have stuck to the bands punk ethic by featuring stars of the Northwestern underground like Visqueen and the Fastbacks.
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September 25th, 2011
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September 25th, 2011
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Guns N’ Roses, Heart, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and The Cure are among the first-timers on short list of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2011, joining returning hopefuls the Beastie Boys, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donna Summer and others.
Fifteen finalists are on the ballot that’s been sent to the Rock Hall’s more than 500 voters, who will in turn select five to be inducted into the shrine on April 14, when the 27th annual ceremony returns to Cleveland for the third time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation will subsequently determine non-performing inductees and recipients of the Award for Musical Excellence .
Other first-time nominees on this year’s ballot include the Small Faces/Faces, the Spinners, Rufus with Chaka Khan, Freddie King and rappers Eric B.
August 26th, 2011
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Male heroes, in the big action movies, get to save the world by blowing it up. The journey of women, especially in indie films, is different: passive saints, they abide and endure and finally, bravely, say no. Their heroism is a defiant step outside the church of patriarchy.
Vera Farmiga, as actress and director, traces this domestic and spiritual quest in Higher Ground, the troubling and often rewarding biography of Carolyn Briggs. The Briggs memoir, This Dark World, relates a modern via dolorosa, as, with her young husband, she joins a hippie religious commune in the 1970s and, on her own, struggles for more than a decade to hear the word of God.
August 26th, 2011
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Despite Hurricane Irene, leaders of showbiz performer unions have continued meeting to craft a merger plan.
Reps of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists met via teleconference Saturday at SAG headquarters in Los Angeles and New York in the second of four confabs to hammer out the details of a merger proposal. The teleconference was a substitute for a three-day face-to-face meeting that had been set to take place starting Saturday. Full Article…
July 28th, 2011
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“Project Runway” mentor Tim Gunn does not mince words when it comes to the Secretary of State: the fashion guru thinks Hillary Clinton is “confused about her gender.”
“She’s the Secretary of State, she’s the former Senator of New York, she’s the former First Lady, why must she dress that way?” an irked Gunn asked George Lopez on his talk show. “I think she’s confused about her gender with all these big, baggy menswear tailored pantsuits.”
“No, I’m really serious,” Gunn insisted. “They’re unflattering.”
July 26th, 2011
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Block parties. They sound fun don’t they? Well, thousands agreed when someone on Twitter invited everyone along to have a real cool time. However, the internet isn’t very good at organising things and guess what? A riot ensued. Great stuff.
The mixture of an overcrowded theater and an invitation to a block party ended with everything going a bit awry around Hollywood Boulevard outside a film premiere, which saw the police turning up in full riot gear. The LAPD are a notoriously in favour of soft-policing aren’t they? *coughs*
This saw revellers lobbing bottles and vandalising cars while everyone else refused to politely go home. The s