2008 Woodie Awards
After 20 years, 11 albums and seven Grammy nominations, the Indigo Girls are still singing, performing and being as outspoken and racy as ever. Now touring for the duo's newest album, "Despite Our Differences," which features guest spots from Pink and Brandi Carlile, the Girls are simply looking to have some fun, make music and sell a few more albums (to date, the duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers has sold a total of 12 million records).
The world of the deaf is not one into which the hearing-capable often venture. There, hand signals form words, lip movements cue understanding and sounds are lost in the break between the mouths of the hearing and the ears of the deaf. Danya Lang is trying to bridge the gap. Lang, a 21-year-old university junior from Somers, N.Y., was born almost entirely deaf. Her left ear, declared severely impaired, allows her to hear sounds such as loud bangs or screaming voices. Her right ear does not function at all - it is profoundly impaired, the worst level of hearing impairment.
It's lurking under the bed. It's bulging from the dark confines of the closet. It's creeping from the depths of the freezer. It's claiming every inch of desk and dresser space. It's disorganization - the dreaded disease that regularly consumes countless businesses, homes and residence halls across the globe and, according to new research, its reputation may be in for a turn-around.
In this double-feature tribute to every '70s B-movie you never saw, you get two doses of beer-inspired, reckless, nihilistic mayhem in a raunchy, action-packed joyride.
The latest Frat Pack film is the figure skating ditty "Blades of Glory," starring Ferrell and Jon Heder, and produced by Stiller. Unsurprisingly, the film runs like an extended episode of a favorite brainless sitcom: fast, shallow and, most importantly, instantly gratifying.
Conor Oberst, Omaha's often-lauded, 27-year-old singer-songwriter behind Bright Eyes, must have inhaled too many Manhattan fumes. After his New York love letter, 2005's "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" and the electronically-spastic "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn," Bright Eyes returns with "Cassadaga" - a fully realized and satisfying album that is unafraid not only to ask far-reaching questions, but to live with its gray uncertainty.
Talk about a mess. There's no question whether Timbaland, the producer responsible for shape-shifting the Hip-hop and pop music worlds for more than a decade, is capable of crafting hits. He helped launch the careers of Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliott and Aaliyah, but his latest solo album, "Timbaland Presents: Shock Value" proves he should stick to other artists rather than himself.
It seems bands just aren't content with its sound for too long anymore. Artistic growth is encouraged, but when you're The Academy Is.., the drawing board could have waited.
Exes are exes for a reason. Once the flame is put out, both partners go back on the market, right?
What Gillis does is simple and complex - he takes Top 40 radio hits and meticulously blends, crushes and pulverizes them into brand new compositions. Gillis' results are some of the most thrilling party music ever created.
For me, fashion is a selfish hobby. Aside from simply covering my body, I buy things that make me look and feel good. So it's nice when fashion can incorporate a little selflessness once in a while. Retailers offer "a-portion-of-the-proceeds" products all the time and they're smart for doing so - stores look like martyrs and consumers feel like good Samaritans.
While most college students spent their Spring Break at beach resorts or relaxing and enjoying their free time, junior Amanda Williams spent the week learning how to put a roof on the house of Mrs. Marva, a hurricane victim living in Louisiana. "I could build you a roof now if I needed to," Williams says.
While several university students saw "Blades of Glory" in theaters over Spring Break, senior Tiffany Scott, an applied nutrition major and coach of the university intercollegiate skating team, traveled to Los Angeles for the premiere of the movie, since she appears as the skating double for actress Amy Poehler.
Beer pong tables have become a status symbol across campus. Every party has a beer pong table. Even residence halls frequently utilize the easily-removable closet doors. Some are slabs of plywood resting on trash cans, some are unhinged bedroom doors or extra-thick cardboard, but others are painted, signed, decorated with enormous pictures and bordered with flashing lights - all saying something about the people and the house.
The new TV series, "Facebook Diaries," provides an outlet of expression and gives our generation the opportunity to be documentary filmmakers through sharing personal stories. The stories, which are first submitted on Facebook, will be aired this summer via Comcast's video site, Ziddio.com, and on TV through Comcast ON DEMAND. The series will be produced by Oscar-nominated producer and documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler, and a story department headed by the producers will review each entry.
During the 2004 Golden Globe Awards, millions were shocked as U2's Bono leaned over the microphone during his acceptance speech for best original song and expressed his feelings in a heavy Irish accent with one profound sentence. "This is really, really fucking brilliant.
