The Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival brought joy, country music, fun and surprises to the Las Vegas Strip, September 30 to October 2. The three-day event provided excitement each day, taking place at the MGM Resorts Festival Grounds, giving it the feel and experience of a traditional music festival like Stagecoach but enabling you to sleep in a Vegas hotel instead of your camper.
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was bigger and more virtual than ever. In recent years, the event was confined to the Los Angeles Convention Center and the sidewalks outside. This year it expanded to the street between Staples Center (home of the LA Lakers) and beyond into the popular eating and entertainment district, LA Live. The expansion made elements of the show available to not only attendees, but also casual passersby. And this year, there were dancing Doritos chips.
This year E3, The Electronic Entertainment Expo, overflowed the Los Angeles Convention Center, spilled onto Chick Hearn Drive and into Los Angeles’ favorite downtown meeting place, LA Live. I had accepted an invitation from Thrustmaster to see their new driving game controllers. Somehow, I found booth 2705.
E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, invaded the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 12-16, and left craziness and delight in its wake. I’ve never been a great fan of the shoot’em up games. Instead, I searched the humongous displays in the Los Angeles Convention Center for build’em ups. I found two: a relative newcomer, Farming Simulator, and the newest iteration of a classic, Sid Meier’s Civilization.
Country singer Ayla Brown is the whole package – singer, songwriter, and owner of her own music production company, Ambient Entertainment. And that’s not counting her previous careers as a college basketball star at Boston College and a correspondent for ‘The Early Show’ on CBS. She was also an ‘American Idol’ finalist.
The new Alan Jackson concert DVD, ‘Keepin’ It Country – Live at Red Rocks’, gives you that “being there” experience. He’s an entertainer you just do not want to miss.
It’s time to leave for the game. Have we packed everything? Here’s a list to help you answer that question.
Patriotism, country music by former ‘American Idol’ finalist Ayla Brown and rock and roll by Madison Rising made the Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) Defend Freedom Tour a treat for the spirit and the ears
As I was interviewing the 3 Queens of 3 Queens Media, a young man ran up and interrupted us. “Hey,” he yelled, “You’re all gonna be famous. Kanye just took your picture!” Kanye West, whom I’m told is somehow related to the Kardashians, was in attendance at E3. I’m still waiting for the fame to hit.
There is a problem with selfies and grammar. “Selfies”, for those of you over the age of 75, are self-portraits taken with a cell phone, usually with an arm extended or more recently with an attachment for extending one’s reach called a selfie-stick. When one takes a picture of one’s self, then, certainly, “selfie” would be…
(Originally published on Blogcritics.org) Can you learn to be funny? The folks at Flappers University believe you can, and having spent a day at their “Intro to Comedy Intensive” class, I’m inclined to agree. This class, to prepare you to do stand-up comedy, is just one of a dozen courses offered at Flappers University, a…
(Originally published on Blogcritics.org) The Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival is a brand new event that took place in early October on the Las Vegas Strip. It featured an impressive list of stars including Dierks Bentley, Brantley Gilbert, Blake Shelton, his wife Miranda Lambert, and Jason Aldean. Organizers promise it will be an annual…
Thompson Square’s two big hits, “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not” and “If I Didn’t Have You”, set me up to expect an evening of melodic ballads and sweet romantic banter. Surprises followed.
Healthcare has long been recognized as the most un-disruptable industry on earth. Until Dr. Zubin Damania came along, that is. Damania, the closing speaker at SXSW V2V in Las Vegas on July 16, 2014, spent 10 years as a doctor at Stanford. Although he won awards for clinical teaching during this period, he became increasingly frustrated with a medical system that, as he put it, “Pays you to do things to patients, instead of doing things for them.”
Storming the Castle – A film I co-produced with my daughter for the Producers Guild Weekend Challenge. Click on the poster to watch the film.
The last day of the Olympics and I finally figured out what the slogan meant.
When my daughter Leia came back to live with us she brought a white Schnauzer named Daisy. Daisy and I play in the yard in the classic fashion: I throw something and she runs after it. But about this activity there is a confession to be made.