'Muppets Most Wanted' Releases Music Trailer
The Muppets can do no wrong. Their eponymous 2011 film was so successful at the box office that it's hardly any wonder a sequel is on the way. "Muppets Most Wanted" will be released on March 21, and...
View ArticleIf These Gorgeous Photos Don't Get You Excited For Spring, Nothing Will
Remember back earlier in the winter, when snow was charming? Yeah, no, neither do we. We've got a bad case of missing spring. And the only cure, outside of actually going somewhere that's warm or...
View ArticleKanye West Joins Drake To Perform 'Black Skinhead' In Berlin
Is Drake becoming the new Taylor Swift? The latest leg of his Would You Like a Tour? tour has the rapper surprising audiences with guest appearances from his all-star music pals. Earlier this week,...
View ArticleOscar Upsets That Could Actually Happen
Many of the categories at Sunday's Academy Awards already seem decided. For instance, if actors Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto and Lupita Nyong'o fail to take home Oscars, their losses...
View Article'Homeless Jesus' Statue Gets New North Carolina Home At St. Alban's Episcopal...
This 'Homeless Jesus' statue has found a home after similar works were rejected from cathedrals in New York and Canada, but not all are welcoming it with open arms. The moving work by Timothy P....
View ArticleThis Is Your State's Least Favorite Artists
Earlier this week, Paul Lamere of The Echo Nest released a map showing the most distinctive artist in each state, meaning the unique artist that each state listened to more than any other state. After...
View ArticleKendrick Lamar Expected To Release New Album This September, Black Hippy...
Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and the rest of the Top Dawg Entertainment crew are the cover story in the latest issue of Billboard. In it, Lamar, Q and Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith share stories of the...
View ArticleThe Many Accents Of Meryl Streep, In One Video
Join us, ye disciples, as we bow at the feet of Queen Meryl Streep. She'll go to battle with her 18th Oscar nomination this weekend, and with it comes a movie that provided the 64-year-old actress yet...
View ArticleOscar Winners Should Learn From Joe Pesci & Alfred Hitchcock
Brevity is the soul of wit and also tolerable Oscar speeches. With a show that threatens to run for at least three-and-a-half hours, what viewers don't need is Julia Roberts chastising the "stick man"...
View ArticleRed Carpet Protesters Ask For Yearly Wages That Add Up To At Least One Oscar...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Days before celebrities strut their Armani and Gucci gowns at the Oscars, protesters rallied on the red carpet Friday to shine a spotlight on one of the awards show's biggest...
View ArticleMaya Angelou Shares The Advice She'd Give Her Younger Self (VIDEO)
Oprah sees Dr. Maya Angelou as a mother, a sister and a friend. It's a relationship that began nearly 40 years ago when Oprah, then a young reporter, asked the literary icon for an interview, promising...
View ArticleJared Leto Is Stressed About His Potential Oscar Speech
Despite a torrential downpour and flash flood warnings in L.A. on Friday evening, Jared Leto hit the ground running, in fancy black-and-white shiny shoes with a red sole. The Oscar-favorite spoke to...
View ArticleQueer New World: Meet Brooklyn's Charmin Ultra
This is the eighteenth installment in an ongoing series that explores drag culture and the nightlife scene in Brooklyn, N.Y. Over the past several years, following the large-scale exodus of artists...
View ArticleMan Who Stole From Pearl Jam Gets 14-month Sentence
SEATTLE (AP) — A former financial officer of Pearl Jam's management company has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for embezzling more than $300,000 from the band. The Seattle Times reports...
View ArticleKimberly Brooks' Hypnotic Paintings Depict Memories That Were Never Yours
Aristocratic portraits that once hung in the halls of a half-remembered dream, elaborate banquets you read about in a historical fiction novel, overgrown castle grounds hazily recalled from a travel...
View ArticleComing Out As Gay Via Long-Exposure Photography
By David Rosenberg In 2004, Matthew Pillsbury met Nathan Noland, fell in love, came out as a gay man, and subsequently left his wife. It was a profound time for the then-30-year-old photographer, who...
View ArticleOscar Nominees As You've Never Seen Them Before: In Mike Breach's Coffee Foam...
Even if you've seen all the Oscar-nominated films, you haven't seen them like this. Mike Breach, 28, a New York barista, specializes in "baristart," a self-coined term for art made in the foam of...
View ArticleWatch The 'Veronica Mars' Movie's Opening Scene Two Weeks Before It Hits...
You might be motivated to watch the newly unveiled opening scene from the "Veronica Mars" movie for one of two reasons: You're a die-hard Marshmallow who pines for any fresh material the show can...
View ArticlePharrell, U2, Idina Menzel And Karen O Rock Oscar Rehearsals
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Having the nation's No. 1 song does not exempt an artist from Oscar rehearsals. Pharrell Williams ran through his catchy hit "Happy" more than half a dozen times Friday in...
View ArticleTuba Players Make Alligators Randy With One Very Special Note (VIDEO)
Would you be willing to serenade an alligator? In 1944, the American Museum of Natural History in New York performed an experiment called "Response of Captive Alligators to Auditory Stimulation," where...
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