It’s been one year since Don LaFontaine’s death.  Although it sounds odd, I remember where I was when I heard the news. I sat on a friend’s couch with my laptop watching YouTube clips of the man himself, completely unaware of his death.  I found my way to his Wikipedia page which stated August 26, 1940 – September 1, 2008. I was chilled. Not only by the sheer irony, but because a man whom I had come to admire as an artist would no longer be gracing the entertainment world …

Let me tell you about K’naan. His story is truly inspirational.  Having basically boarded the last plane out of war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, his family moved to New York City, and later Toronto to escape the Somali civil war.  Knowing no English, K’naan taught himself by listening to hip-hop albums as an expatriate teenager.  The song “Dreamer” off his February ‘09 release “Troubadour” tells of his young aspirations to become a beloved, touring musician:
“What would it take for a boy about my age to hear cheers in his head upon that …

Found this on Craigslist. I enjoyed the shock value. Read the whole thing, wont ya?
My Wife Found Out About My Mistress–Now You Can Have Her
Things were going along just fine for the last few years. She and I had occasion to meet regularly, sometimes every evening in a week, if only for a few minutes at a time. We had one of those relationships where everything just seemed to click. It was like she was made for me.
But then my wife found out.
You could say she wasn’t very happy with …

Preface to this story:  My name is Ian Bauer. I write for Refocus Magazine. In April of 2009 I was called back to audition for Season 4 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent.  This was my blog entry from that time.
It’s exactly 15 minutes past midnight. Which means for my friends in Chicago, it’s 2:15am and my friends in Massachusetts it’s 3:15am. I cannot sleep. I’m not nervous, not excited and unfortunately not tired. To my right is an amazing view of downtown Los Angeles. Blurry …