Columns
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Investing Wisely, or How to Keep Your Skin
The gifted and well-compensated are seen as prey by financial predators disguised as advisors. Here’s how to avoid becoming a pelt on their wall
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‘Real Housewives’: From Cape Town Cattiness to Heart-Rending Orphanage Visit
“The Real Housewives of Atlanta” make the scene in Africa and even go on a safari — in Manolo Blahniks
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Fake Steve Jobs Ad in Taiwan Gets Clobbered by Bloggers
East is East and West is West, particularly when it comes to American icons like Steve Jobs, even if he is portrayed as an angel
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Van Halen Gets a Fun ‘Jump’-Start With First Roth-Fronted Album in 28 Years
With Diamond Dave back in comedic-showman tow, ‘A Different Kind of Truth’ is good enough to make you forget Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone ever happened
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Why ‘Walking Dead’ Creator Robert Kirkman Is Happy to Lose Fights Over His Characters
Sharing his beloved characters with a room of other writers
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How ‘The Woman In Black’ Reminded Me of ‘Stepford Wives’
In “The Lady in Black,” as it was in “The Stepford Wives,” the importance of being earnest — no matter how bizarre the scene — is clear
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Leon Russell and Elton John: A ‘Union’ Made on Late-Night Radio
With his ground-breaking work on “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” in the 1970s, Leon Russell made a name for himself and later, a pop singer named Elton John
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Paul McCartney’s ‘Kisses’ a Valentine’s Day Treat
Key collaborator Diana Krall helps keep Paul McCartney’s album of pre-rock standards sweet … and, unlike Rod Stewart’s, subtle
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Time for Vevo to Pay Up?
The online video service reported revenue of $150 million in 2011. So why aren’t independent publishers and their songwriters getting a cut?
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Matt Pincus -
Super Bowl Was a Corporate Belch of Gluttony and Excess
How much good would the millions spent on the Super Bowl halftime show have done for the children of Indianapolis? Give us less Madonna and more Clint Eastwood
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Madonna Pre-Super Bowl Video Gets Some Cred From NFL, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A.
VIDEOS: Madonna hires her own celebrity cheerleaders in a ridiculous but infectious new video for “Give Me All Your Luvin’”
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Taiwanese Ad Featuring Fake Steve Jobs: Funny or Offensive?
A computer firm’s ad featuring an actor impersonating the late Apple co-founder was meant to be funny. But is it?
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Dan Bloom -
Chima Simone on ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’: Living Big in Cape Town
The housewives of Atlanta landed in Cape Town with a heavy thud. That was the sound of all of their luggage hitting the tarmac. Hauling mass amounts of suitcases, trunks, and carry-ons, the bag ladies were well on their way to constructing a Louis Vuitton village in the south of Africa. But, village, pillage, the…
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Review: Leonard Cohen Has Some New ‘Old Ideas’ — Hallelujah!
77-year-old poet laureate Leonard Cohen merits hosannas for his warmest and best album in 20 years
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Review: Lana Del Rey, the Anti-Adele, Gets Icy in ‘Born to Die’
Lana Del Rey’s coolly jaded album is neither as good as the “Video Games” single or as terrible as the controversial newcomer’s “SNL” appearance