The Secret Room Celebrity Gifting Suite to Go On Despite Cancellation ofGolden Globe AwardsLOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ — The Writer’s Guild strike won’t beaffecting the SWAG given out this year for the Golden Globe Awards, if thereeven is one. Stars and top media will be attending one of the most new andexclusive celebrity gift […]

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Julien Temple’s tumultuous and moving Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, views the Clash as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones of punk - and Strummer, their front man, songwriter and spiritual leader, as a Nowhere Man who turned himself into an Everyman from Everywhere.This Roman candle of a documentary sets off a raw yet […]

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FROM the swish mansions of Darling Point to the Queensland dairytown of Caboolture, mobile phones went into meltdown yesterdaymorning when the actor Nicole Kidman confirmed - finally - that therumour was true: she’s having a baby.
Within minutes of the news hitting the internet, media crewsdescended on Kidman’s multimillion-dollar home in Darling Point.Later in the day […]

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CORNWALL — When Robert Andrew Parker was stationed at Andrews Air Force base in Maryland at the end of World War II, he used to head up to New York City on leave to hear jazz.
“The music was so great then,” said Parker, who was serving in the U.S. Army Air Force. “You could go […]

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While music “as heard on” most TV shows gets the shaft, music first tasted
on TV commercials earns an even lamer rep. Yet television advertising is a perfectly
reasonable medium for learning about new music. Hell, most of us are glued to our TV
sets—or at least to our computers, which are clicked into streaming eps of
Gossip Girl […]

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We all know it is a lot easier to lose weight when you are a celebrity. After all, the big name actors and actresses usually make so much money that they can easily hire a personal chef, consult with the latest diet guru personally, and have a personal trainer come to their house to work […]

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The Kansas City Symphony is up and running for the new year, and the two January concerts promise to be both exciting and noteworthy.In three concerts this weekend, Music Director Michael Stern will conduct the orchestra and British percussionist Colin Currie. The program features Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 7,” Leos Janacek’s “Taras Bulba,” and […]

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ART 
Printing youth
Kenny King is a poet armed with a camera and a penchant for Warhol-like pop-art. For his show at Mesh, 2980 North Park Way, opening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, in conjunction with Ray at Night, King will unveil his new series, images of club kids silk-screened over painted backgrounds. If […]

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Continuum’s 33 1/3 series is an interesting concept: take an author with a sometimes shaky level of qualifications and turn said author loose for about 100 pages to explore the influences, origins, inspirations, and critical and commercial responses of a classic album. At its best, this approach leads to a better understanding and appreciation of […]

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On February 2, Millennium Film Workshop will present an evening of goofy comedies by avant-garde film makers Jacob Burckhardt, Royston Scott and Jim Neu.
This evening features two collaborations between Jacob Burckhardt and Royston Scott: “Tomorrow Always Comes” (2006), a tongue-in-cheek film noir about a black private detective, and “The Professor and his Improper Potion” (2006), […]

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