The evolution of Mandy Moore is now complete. Now 25, the former teen pop sensation has recently gotten married, and her latest album, Amanda Leigh, is a collection of smart, acoustic- and piano-based pop songs that, based on similar artists’ work, should flop phenomenally.
Moore has aligned herself with one of the best (and unknown) songwriters in pop [...]

One day, around the age of 11, I was playing around on the piano and found a chord progression that was simply mesmerizing. I played it over and over, convinced that I had found some magic formula. Here was the snippet:
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Of course, I never did anything with it, and later I found other songs with [...]

Tasty World in Athens, Ga., is not so much a bar as it is a two-story dichotomy. The first floor is a veritable meat market, with UGA freshmen girls dancing, socializing and showing lots of bare shoulders. (Where are their coats? It’s 15 degees outside. I sound like their father. Come to think of it, [...]