Alternative Press, the independent, Cleveland-based music and youth-culture magazine, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this summer with an exclusive, all-star party at the House of Blues in Hollywood. The heartiest of congrats are in order – it’s a remarkable achievement, although the location of the party brings to mind the …

The Turks and Caicos Second Annual Music & Cultural Festival is scheduled for July 25-August 1, 2005 on the not-ugly isle of Providenciales. Confirmed artists scheduled to perform include reggae dancehall pop star Shaggy, chart-topping R&B vocalist Ashanti, soul singer Jeffrey Osborne, legendary voice of lovers reggae Gregory Isaacs, number …

As Dave Nalle mentioned here , a bill in the Texas Senate to name a 49 mile section of new State Highway 130 after local legend Willie Nelson became a political football. Nelson’s outspoken support for Democratic Party causes and reefer madness didn’t sit well with some senate Republicans and …

The final film in George Lucas’ epic space series, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, is now less than two weeks away, opening May 19, and a preview for journalists Tuesday night Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch confirmed his assertions that it is the darkest and most violent of the …

String theory, black holes, worm holes, relativity, movement at or near the speed of light, and the unimpeachable Back to the Future and Bill and Ted movies all suggest the possibility of time travel, or the reversibility of the arrow of time; but overcoming the technical and conceptual problems inherent …

Over 40 years after Portland, Oregon’s garage rock heroes The Kingsmen turned Richard Berry’s jaunty little calypso tune about a Jamaican sailor pining away for his girl in a bar into a celestially perfect mess of rock ‘n’ roll noise and attitude, the song apparently still has the power to …

Between the phone records, the answering machine message, the corroboration of the parents, the photos of them together, the detailed knowledge of Abdul’s home and habits, I have very little doubt that SOMETHING interpersonal occurred between American Idol contestant Corey Clark and judge Paula Abdul back in ’03, as he …

ABC’s Primetime Live has revealed the thrust of its “explosive” expose on American Idol that runs tonight at 10 pm. The show’s website states that the show will reveal that Paula Abdul provided provided contestant Corey Clark “with off-camera tips and assistance while he was a contestant, even helping him …

The biggest difference now between the aggressive student anti-war activism of 35 years ago that led to confrontations between student protesters and the “establishment,” including the tragic shooting of four students — Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer — by the National Guard at Kent State? The …

Only with oven mittens, Britney. Britney Spears and husband Kevin Federline have announced the name of their upcoming reality show, Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, which premieres with a special one-hour episode on Tuesday, May 17 at 9PM ET/PT, on UPN. Is the show an exploration of chaos theory, the “butterfly …