“Pretty.” “Safe.” Timothy Styles looks as if he swallowed a bug as he says these words, sitting outside a southside Starbucks on a chilly Tuesday evening, hoodie pulled over his head to defend against the cold.
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If you’re anything like us, every four years you find yourself glued to a TV at 3 a.m. watching a couple of regular-looking folks sweep a patch of ice with brooms while thinking to yourself, “If that’s all it takes to be an Olympian, I’m there!”
Appearing on NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” Gov. Chris Christie’s favorite rock star, Bruce Springsteen, joined the comedian in a “Born to Run” parody called “Gov. Chris Christie’s Fort Lee, New Jersey Traffic Jam.”
It won’t be a family tell-all, but the Jackson brothers — Jermaine, Tito, Marlon and Jackie — will share rare insights when they return to the Strip in April for the first time in 20 years.
Detectives searched Justin Bieber’s home looking for surveillance footage that might serve as evidence the pop star was involved in an egg-tossing vandalism case that caused thousands of dollars in damage to a neighbor’s home, an official said Tuesday.
My college economics professor used to tell this dumb joke: What does a guy have to do to be called an economist? Answer: Simple — he can just call himself an economist, because anyone can. Ha? No, it’s not funny, but it’s true. The world of DJ-producers is similar.
Former Runaways guitarist Lita Ford and singer Cherie Currie reunited for a holiday single, the first time they’d worked together since their infamous teen-rock days with Joan Jett in 1977.
Radio-friendly rockers Daughtry headline The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Feb. 14. General admission tickets are $35, reserved seats are $45 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com and Ticketmaster outlets.
M.I.A. does more than just co-write, produce and guest on several tracks on “Go! Pop! Bang!,” the frenzied debut from rapper/fashion plate Rye Rye, she serves as big sister and creative muse for the 23-year-old Baltimore native.
Linkin Park’s frontman spent the better part of last year belting out “Sex Type Thing” on tour with the Stone Temple Pilots.
Descended from three generations of percussionists, and carrying on the family trade with country arena-fillers the Zac Brown Band, Daniel de los Reyes is a product of Vegas lounges and showrooms — at least the area behind the velvet curtains.
Ah yes, the famous “David vs. David” season of “American Idol” in 2008.
It’s a really interesting weekend in nightclubs, because a lot of party DJs (Manufactured Superstars, for instance) are playing Friday night, while a lot of party/serious DJs Markus Schulz, for one) are playing Saturday night.
3 Doors Down guitarist Chris Henderson says, “If you sat and listened to what your brain told you day in and day out, it would drive you nuts.”
