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Mike Hamel is a singer/songwriter from upstate New York with a lot to say. Hamel recorded Where the Change Is (a 6-song disc available on Itunes, Spotify, Rhapsody, and others) with the help of a successful Kickstarter c...

When a new season rolls around, we always get excited to update our wardrobe -- and our accessories are no exception! When it comes to handbags for work, we crave functionality ...

Just because she's nearly the same size as her instrument doesn't mean this Japanese girl's metal solo won't melt your face clean off. Known on YouTube only as Li-sa-x, the 8-year-old shared this video last December in w...

"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place." - Banksy (Wall and Piece) Multi-cultural, creative, dyn...

Suddenly you are ripped into the experience of being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; life is horror, but by God you are alive and it is spectacular! Joseph Campbell Suddenly I am alive, and I am in Haiti. I am on...

It was November 2012. The day will be forever burned into his memory. As happens all too often in life, the tragic news caught Ben Lashey totally unprepared: Heidi, his close friend from high school, had just been killed...

Barbie's hitting the beach again, but not in the way you might think. Artist Annette Thas has built a nearly 10-foot-tall wave out of thousands of used Barbies. The installation became a talker this month at the Sculptur...

A version of this post originally appeared on MarkSKing.com in October in 2011. Last night, I kissed a straight guy full on the lips. Then he tenderly put his arms around me and kissed me back. Tonight, I'm going to do i...

The ethereal-looking dancer gracefully stretches her arm toward the sky. A beam of bright light shoots from her fingertips like a thunderbolt. Her partner crouches in a fetal-like position. When he leaps from the ground,...

Talk about a power klatch. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and a gaggle of members of Congress gathered on Tuesday afternoon in the Capitol's ornate Rayburn room where Pelosi ...

When designer Brian Singer started commuting on the 101, he was shocked at how many drivers were on their phones. He started Texting While In Traffic (TWIT), a campaign that displays photos of texting drivers on billboar...

On Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, held a pre-Oscar exhibition of Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies (2013-14). I was only able to capture the first hour of the largely-packed opening, but w...

"Prince Harry's South Pole Heroes" (NBC at 8 p.m.) offers a rare glimpse of Prince Harry on his second expedition with the Walking With the Wounded charity, as he leads a squad of celebrities and 12 wounded British soldi...

On Monday, the Royal Canadian Mint honored Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro by unveiling a limited-edition silver coin. One side of the $5 coin shows an open page from Munro's 2006 collection "The View from Castle ...

On Monday, the Royal Canadian Mint honored Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro by unveiling a limited-edition silver coin. One side of the $5 coin shows an open page from Munro’s 2006 collection “The View from Cas...

It's been just over a year since I -- amongst many other insiders, fans and lovers of music in L.A., have been witness to some of the most magnificent, intimate live shows by a variety of musical acts displaying their ta...

A glimpse into the lives of classic authors, however brief, can be thrilling. We're wowed by photos of their writing desks, we analyze their sleeping habits, and we swoon over their love letters. Which is why a Sotheby's...

After 70 years of painting, Maria Lassnig is finally getting her first New York show and it is beautiful. Maria Lassnig's show recently opened at MOMA PS1 and it is an almost complete retrospective of one woman's work fr...

Jean-Pierre Roy is engaged as a painter in an ongoing project which appeals to me very much; and not only in my capacity as a painter, but also as a metaphysically-inclined science and science fiction geek, and as a chil...

My mom has always been a big fan of the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music, which portrays the tale of the von Trapp family as a bold, passionate, flee-Nazis-in-the-night kind of love story. She enj...

Jaunty Andrew J. Fenady, the award-winning writer/producer of dozens of TV shows and movies, including The Man with Bogart's Face (1980) and Chisum (1970) with John Wayne, has a rousing new novel being released on April ...

Here's our new favorite movie: "Let's Be Cops," a buddy comedy that let's "New Girl" pals Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. become movie stars. Directed by Luke Greenfield ("The Girl Next Door"), "Let's Be Cops" focuses ...