You’ll get no argument from me when I say that fans of Tori Amos’ work are nothing short of dedicated. Borderline obsessive? Maybe. Regardless, I know that there are a lot of happy fans right now who are in possession…

I am so over apologizing for the fact that I enjoy entertainment that my peers think I’m too old for. It just takes too much energy to pretend that I’m loitering in the young adult section of the book store…

Before Clark Kent came down with a meteor shower on Smallville, Max Evans and company crashed into the New Mexico desert on Roswell. Both shows garnered high enough ratings in the first year to be labeled a Break Out Hit…

It irritates me that in our culture a book or story isn’t truly great until Hollywood bestows upon it the highest of all honors: turning it into a movie. So before the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy came out…

Alison Pace, author of If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend, follows up that enjoyable book with another funny novel that may not have grabbed me as much as her debut, but was still plenty of fun to read. This time,…

One of my managers is as obsessive about music as I am. However, he is also nearing 40 and was a club DJ in the 80s, so he has become disenchanted with modern music over the years. He simply never…

Fandom. What starts it? What defines it? What causes it to thrive, to grow, to take on a life of its own? And why, oh why, did it spawn the morass of insanity known to us as ‘shippers? “‘Shipper” is…

[Caveat: It is true that Meredith Edwards’ CD, Reach, is the first release from Lance Bass’s management company, Free Lance Entertainment. It is also true that Meredith was one of the opening acts for *NSYNC on the East Coast leg…

Mandy Moore, despite her onetime status as a blond, has never marched to the same drummer as her teen pop princess contemporaries. She’s never had a video that required editing in order to be TRL-friendly, like Christina. She doesn’t talk…

Discussing Crossroads over lunch with a friend, I said that it plays out like a bad fanfic written by a twelve-year-old. It’s predictable and drowns the audience in a sea of clichés. That isn’t to say it’s the worst movie…

The hit television series Lost is a bit like a bag of Hershey’s miniatures — there’s a little something for everyone. At least in terms of boys. Whether you’re into big and funny or blond and broody, Lost has an…

Juliana Hatfield was always the girl I thought would have beat up Liz Phair at summer camp, shown her a really wicked guitar riff, and then taught her how to inhale. While Liz started off on the right foot as…

I have something to say today. It may sound blasphemous, but it is something I can no longer keep to myself. The best concerts I have ever had the privilege of seeing were not put on by *NSYNC. This is…

Nearly twenty years ago, when Beverly Hills 90210 first premiered, most girls were twittering away about the drama to their best friends on commercial breaks. I was a late-bloomer, getting into the excited phone call mode in my second teenhood…

I hated the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone movie. I thought it was unimaginative, devoid of life and overstayed its welcome by at least an hour. Even now, when I can’t fall asleep, I pop in the DVD and…

I’ve been to Indigo Girls concerts in four different states, and seen them in all sorts of venues – everything from small clubs to performing arts halls to a college gymnasium and outdoor concert pavilions. The experience, though, is always…

I often have conversations with myself. Nothing that would scare passersby or anything – I keep it all internal, and it mostly happens when I’m all by myself. Take yesterday, for instance. I boarded the train that would take me…

Mark: Honestly, Leslie, it’s going to be a long uphill battle. You are going to be super-annoyed with all the people who want you to fail. There is a sea of red tape, endless road blocks. So, yeah, I don’t…

I’m sure we’ll all remember 2004 as the first year the music industry finally admitted to actually increasing their profits and yet still claims that file sharing is destroying their business. Because those massive mergers of conglomerates had absolutely nothing…

Thank god the Bravo network has decided it doesn’t give two snaps about Middle America. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which premiered to more buzz than my gay office has heard since family favorite Clay bit the big one,…