Actors moonlighting as musicians often get a bad rap. While it’s true that some like Bruce Willis and Steven Seagal should think twice before stepping into a recording studio again, there are those who can actually make music and do it with skill and artfulness. When Hugh Laurie was approached to make an album...
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August 29, 2011August 29, 2011Television
The Power of Persuasion: Interview with Alphas’ Laura Mennell
What if you could get pretty much anything you wanted just by asking for it? For most people that is simply a dream, but for Alphas’ Nina Theroux that has been the story of her life. An Influencer, she is able to “push” people into doing whatever she wants. Over the years Nina has used...
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August 11, 2011August 11, 2011Television
An Interview with The Booth At the End ‘s Christopher Kubasik
“I knew people who loved the show were going to love it a lot,” Christopher Kubasik says of his five-episode web series The Booth At the End, “and the people who hated it, would really hate it. I am surprised at the huge middle ground who say, ‘I don’t think I get it. I don’t...
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August 7, 2011August 7, 2011Television
A Chat with David Winning, Director of Todd & The Book Of Pure Evil
Medieval Britain, the far-flung Pegasus galaxy, an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked castaways and sentient dinosaurs – these are just a handful of settings for the numerous feature films, TV series, miniseries, and made-for-TV movies directed by David Winning. Among the many TV series that the award-winning director has worked on is the Canadian supernatural comedy Todd...
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August 4, 2011August 4, 2011Music
Bob Dylan Helps Bring Hank Williams’ Lost Notebooks Back from the Dead
It sounds like the name of a noir mystery, and in some regards it is, but on October 4, Bob Dylan’s own rather enigmatic label, Egyptian Records, in a partnership with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Columbia Records will release The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams. Only the second title to be released...
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July 25, 2011July 25, 2011Music
Amy Winehouse’s Album Sales, Robert Plant’s Surprise Gig, Marianne Faithfull, Rock Star Real Estate, and More
Amy Winehouse’s Album Sales Soar Posthumously It’s not really business as usual, while the world mourns Amy Winehouse. Ironically it’s better than usual, with sales of the beleaguered singer’s albums increasing by 37 times between Saturday when the news broke and today, and iTunes sales are up by 23 times. Is that the appropriate response?...
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July 24, 2011July 24, 2011Entertainment
Mary Fahl Finally Delivers Brilliant From The Dark Side Of The Moon Album
I’m going to take you back a few years, then warp you back to the here and now, but only after I’ve introduced to you a world class voice and the albums in which she has participated. Mary Fahl started her professional career with a two-album stand with a criminally underrated NYC folk/rock band named...
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July 19, 2011July 19, 2011Television
TV’s Sunday Night Ritual: Serious Drama
Sunday night equals high quality scripted drama ever since HBO re-conditioned TV viewers to wrap up their weekends with The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire and Deadwood. Then came Mad Men, with its hypnotic take on slow-motion ad agency pyschodrama. Showtime’s under-rated Brotherhood hooked us on the Robert DeNiro-like antics of Jason Isaacs (Lucius...
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June 24, 2011June 24, 2011Television
Mr. Opportunist: Interview with Falling Skies’ Colin Cunningham
As Major Paul Davis on Stargate SG-1, Colin Cunningham was often part of a military taskforce whose brave men and women risked their lives to stop various extraterrestrial invaders that were intent on conquering and/or destroying Earth. In his latest gig on TNT’s new Sci-Fi drama series Falling Skies, his character of John Pope is...
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June 24, 2011June 24, 2011Music
Donald Harrison: The Mardi Gras Indians Meet Modern Jazz
If you’re a fan of Treme, the acclaimed HBO series about the New Orleans neighborhood on which Congo Square was sited, you may recall the characters Delmond Trumbeaux, a trumpeter (played by Rob Brown), and his father, Albert Lambreaux, a plasterer who doubles as a Big Chief of the Mardi Gras Indian group, the Guardians...