Thursday , March 28 2024

Eric Olsen

Career media professional and serial entrepreneur Eric Olsen flung himself into the paranormal world in 2012, creating the America's Most Haunted brand and co-authoring the award-winning America's Most Haunted book, published by Berkley/Penguin in Sept, 2014. Olsen is co-host of the nationally syndicated broadcast and Internet radio talk show After Hours AM; his entertaining and informative America's Most Haunted website and social media outlets are must-reads: Twitter@amhaunted, Facebook.com/amhaunted, Pinterest America's Most Haunted. Olsen is also guitarist/singer for popular and wildly eclectic Cleveland cover band The Props.

Blogcritics On the Holiday Season ’05

In the broadest terms, the winter holiday season begins Thanksgiving week and extends through New Year’s Day or so, incorporating Winter Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, New Year’s Eve and Day, and a gauntlet of festive gatherings in between. And since holidays require a lot of planning, we are well …

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Holiday Season Programming From PBS and Nickelodeon

Still buried in the first half of November — heck, I was out mowing the lawn and blowing leaves in a t-shirt and 65-degree breezes Saturday, in Northeast Ohio! — PBS and Nickelodeon have both announced their December holiday programming. I know this stuff is scheduled months in advance – …

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Warner Music Going “Cordless”

Is it a breakfast bar? Lumpy candy? Astronomical phenomenon? No, it’s the newest in the exploding constellation of musical delivery systems, the “cluster,” announced yesterday by the newest label in the Warner Music Group, Cordless Recordings. Cordless, a 21st century label headed by methuselan industry vet Jac Holzman, who made …

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High Flying Kelly Clarkson Schedules Free “Make-up” Concert

On the one hand, many would say how could Kelly Clarkson lose? She was the first winner of the runaway hit singing competition American Idol, and with the prestige of the show, the high-powered 19 management company, RCA Records, and the Fox network all on the line, an imposing alignment …

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MAD Dragon Records: Learning By Doing At Drexel

Wow, talk about a hands-on approach to music biz education! For those students looking to get a serious start working the nuts and bolts of the music industry, this is an invaluable opportunity. Philadelphia’s Drexel University — which in 2000 became the first major university to operate a fully wireless …

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Lost Valentino-Swanson Film Returns Home

A long-lost 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson, Beyond the Rocks, will receive its U.S. re-premiere with live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla at the motion picture Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, November 29. Made when Valentino was at the apex of his …

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Tom Cruise Cans Sister As Publicist

After a year in which his public actions led many to believe he is an unstable, doctrinaire, shameless, manipulative, tawdry, manic, controlling publicity-monger, Tom Cruise has hired a new publicist to replace his sister and fellow-Scientologist Lee Anne DeVette, after apparently being rubuffed in efforts to fire himself. For example, …

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