by admin | Feb 25, 2020 | Entertainment
Having a rough day? We’ve got something to make it better. We all know Kelly Clarkson opens her daytime talk show covering great songs as party of her Kelly-oke. On yesterday’s show, Clarkson started out singing the Wilson Phillips hit “Hold...
by admin | Jan 6, 2020 | Entertainment, News
If you’re anything like us, you skipped the Golden Globes to binge Downton Abbey or something else. After all, Ricky Gervais is charming, but the speeches are a little self-indulgent. And the Hollywood Foreign Press doesn’t always get it right. And last...
by admin | Nov 26, 2019 | Entertainment, News
Perhaps one of the best episodes of The West Wing is when President Jed Bartlet discovers the joys of the Butterball Hotline. “Butterball has a hotline? God, I’m sorry. I love my country.”...
by admin | Nov 26, 2019 | Entertainment, News
Still the best episode of television ever. “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could...
by admin | Apr 30, 2019 | Entertainment, News
Toto’s “Africa” is one of the most popular songs of all time. Originally released in 1982, the song, which has been certified quadruple platinum, continues to be one of the most streamed songs nearly 40 years later. It’s be cribbed by...
by admin | Feb 28, 2019 | Black History Month, Entertainment, News
What flows down the right-hand side of your page are links to the artists we’ve highlighted as part of our Black History Month Spotlight series. In so many ways, these pioneers led the way and inspired generations of artists to rise up and succeed. But...
by admin | Feb 27, 2019 | Black History Month, Entertainment, News
Like so many of the African-American artists who blazed trails in the hey-day of Motown, Diana Ross got started while she was still a teenager. She joined The Primettes (The Supremes before they were The Supremes) and achieved local success playing at live venues...
by admin | Feb 26, 2019 | Black History Month, Entertainment, News
It seems odd to highlight Stevie Wonder without highlighting Ray Charles, since it was an album of Ray Charles covers that comprised Stevie Wonder’s first recorded album when he 11 years old. But there are only so many days and producing this entire series in...
by admin | Feb 25, 2019 | Black History Month, Entertainment, News
No next-generation artist in recent memory did more to cross genres or sound than Minnesota’s own Prince. Born to a jazz singer and pianist, Prince was destined for a life in music, composing his first song on his father’s piano at age seven. With help...
by admin | Feb 22, 2019 | Black History Month, Entertainment, News
“American history wells up when Aretha sings. Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R&B, rock and roll—the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and...