America has survived the revival of polyester, chastity, and the prime-time game show. Is there a chance that joy could make a comeback too? That emotion doesn’t exactly sum up the current mood, yet joy — that is, joy with a chewy center of heartbreak — defines the music of ABBA, and it’s that blissed-out force that powers Mamma Mia!, the irresistible pop opera starring 22 ABBA songs that could well be the single most ecstatic musical to open on Broadway since A Chorus Line. Read More...
A man in Pennsylvania has been arrested and charged with criminal homicide after allegedly fatally attacking his neighbor with a knife and a chainsaw while wearing a mask resembling the killer from the Scream movies. Pennsylvania State Police in Lehighton Borough, Carbon County, identified the suspect as 30-year-old Zak Russel Moyer and said in a news release that troopers had responded to reports of an assault in progress Monday afternoon. " Read More...
The year was 1999. TRL was starting to take off, every closet contained at least one pair of flared jeans, and a new 15-year- old artist named Mandy Moore debuted a music video for her first single, “Candy.” In it she drove a lime green Volkswagen Beetle past perfectly manicured Los Angeles lawns while singing that she missed a cute boy… like candy. It was the kind of dangerously catchy bubblegum pop song that would land Moore on the cover of magazines and earn her the title of “pop princess” alongside the likes of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Read More...
