Overflowing with conscious rhymes and bitter jabs at the record industry, Talib Kweli’s The Official Sucka Free Mixtape is quintessential Kweli… most of the time.“Right About Now,” the opening track, which Kweli calls the song that “sums up this project,” finds the rapper reminiscing over...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 6-12:Jan. 6: Country singer Earl Scruggs is 84. Actress Bonnie Franklin is 64. Singer Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds is 57. Country singer Jett Williams is 55. Guitarist Malcolm Young of AC/DC is 55. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson...

There are two people's voices I can impersonate well: that of Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt and Project Runway frontman Tim Gunn. It seems Merritt is forever impersonating as well, or perhaps just exploring the many forms of his beloved pop and rock songcraft. (Alas,...

Film producers Graham King and Rick Schwartz were on the set of The Aviator, on a soundstage in Montreal in the summer of 2003, watching Martin Scorsese direct Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as Howard Hughes having a breakdown while building the largest airplane in the world."Show...

Provides a biography of the mythical Lemony Snicket, author of The Series of Unfortunate Events. Compiles information provided in the popular series of children literature.