myTakes: Entertainment & Arts

Frustratingly, there are too many “pop” performers encroaching on the domain of legitimate classical music, to the point where people don't understand or appreciate the difference between "showy" and a truly accomplished...

I don't even know if this is in the mainstream news yet, but there's an arrest warrant out for Timothy Busfield, who is the husband of Melissa Gilbert, who was Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie. He's a big TV...

Before you even say, "it's just fiction, of course its fake," let me just say, of course it's just fiction and of course its fake for story telling purposes, but the thing about fiction is it has been proven that jurors...

I'm old enough to have had an actual record player in my house when I was a kid. We weren't allowed to touch it, but it was there, sitting in the corner, but even then, rarely if ever used. I grew up on cassettes and CDs,...

A quick break from tennis. I can tell you how to become a professional musician, but early this morning I read one part of a famous author's prescription for becoming a writer. In Hollywood I do come across a shocking...

i started writing this as an answer to someone's question about nostalgic songs, but it got going so i turned it into a My Take this is a poem set to music, so i will count that as a song, The Pines of the Appian Way from...

You hear it all the time, ugh Taylor Swift only ever writes break up songs and disses her ex's. So let's have a look at some songs that are not about her Ex's or a relationship at all. Including some lyrics from each...

Book or movie? It is too hard to answer for your best one. But if you ask me, it is much more enjoyable to read the Harry Potter series first. Not to mention using our imagination and all the benefits that reading books...

In case you missed it, a female Australian break dancer nicknamed "Raygun" took to the Olympic stage in Paris to compete in the first ever break dancing competition, but lets just say, it did not go well...like at all....