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A Night Out With | Diane Birch – Downtime on Tour – NYTimes.com
A NIGHT OUT WITH | DIANE BIRCH Downtime on Tour Stephanie Diani for The New York Times “I’VE never been so terrified of teenagers, ever,” said Diane Birch, the 25-year-old singer and songwriter, on a recent night after opening for Nick Jonas — the lead Jonas Brothers heartthrob — and his band, the Administration. She has [...]
Reviving the Roxy – Can the Strip Follow? – NYTimes.com
THE stage at the Roxy Theater was a blur of tattoos, platinum hair and black leather pants. Two rock stars, Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction and Matt Sorum of Guns N’ Roses, watched the show from the V.I.P. section. Devil horns — the international symbol of rocking out — were thrown triumphantly in the air. The [...]
New York Times: Richard Simmons—Still Sweatin’ To the Oldies
YOU hear Richard Simmons before you see him. On a recent Saturday morning, his tittering acolytes waited in the small green and pink pastel-colored lobby of Slimmons, his fitness studio here. His familiar Southern-tinged voice floated through the doors of the studio where he was holding Project Me, a talk therapy class about exercise. Suddenly, [...]
New York Times: Dig Out the Spandex and Feel the Burn
AROUND 11:40 a.m. every Sunday, they arrive at Foresight Studios, a rehearsal and performance space in the heart of Silver Lake, a hipster neighborhood in Los Angeles. They wear pink leg warmers, sparkly headbands and the type of tiny shorts not seen since Richard Simmons felt the burn in them in the 1980s. They are [...]
New York Times: A Night Out With Pete Wentz
Los Angeles IN a few hours, Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy’s most famous member and accidental Internet pinup model, would be at the center of 100 excited fans at Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard, for a midnight signing of the first installment of the band’s comic book series, “Fall Out Toy Works.” Mr. Wentz would [...]
Radar Magazine: It’s Mini-Britney, Bitch!
A pint-sized performer restores the fallen Britney Spears to the rightful status of Number One Star in the world.
Seven Ways Flashforward Resembles Lost
TV addicts already knew that one of the fall season’s most anticipated shows, Flashforward was going to have some similarities to Lost, since ABC desperately needs to find a way to fill the hole left by Lost when it ends in 2010. And they aren’t being shy about the hat tip, either; we saw a [...]
The Daily Beast: The Old Spice Man’s Internet Triumph