The art world has a few illustrious Lopezes: muralist Carlos Lopez, Antonio Lopez Garcia (featured in this issue), Smithsonian Institution-featured folk artist George Lopez, and then there’s OUR George Lopez – “America’s Mexican,” as he …

The world’s most beautiful chameleon isn’t from some exotic country, although she frequents them for her humanitarian work. She isn’t odd or scary, although some of her earlier habits may have appeared that way to …

With a flick the red light goes on. The house lights dim. No one breathes. And for a half second everything is still. He raises his bow and then it starts. The low rumble of …

The one fact I know in this world is that cool people listen to Lenny Kravitz. And if your social status is in question, there’s a revolution underway that you need to know about. I’ve …

Clint Eastwood was too young to serve in World War II. He did enlist in the army to serve in Korea. He never saw any combat action, but did have to swim three miles to …

Joss Stone has found unconditional love, and she’s sharing it with the world. Her lover has no lips to kiss, no eyes that shine, no smile that says, “Welcome home.” Instead, her beau hits her …

While nothing was ever handed to Gretchen Wilson, she was born with a gift. She began singing around the house when she was three. At four, she was giving impromptu concerts in the middle of a K-Mart “Blue Light Special” aisle. “My mom would have me sing everywhere: parking lots, a tavern, if there was a band setting up, she’d ask if I could sing a Hank or Patsy song with them.”

Cheech Marin, actor, writer, voice artist and television personality, smiles broadly in the soft Malibu sun – his paintings are finally coming home. Or maybe not – Cheech’s Chicano art collection, which has …

Finally, a music video with soul and backbone that makes a statement worth caring about. A collaboration between a John Steinbeck-inspired singer/songwriter, a cutting edge documentary filmmaker and an artist who says Basquiat straightened out …

More than 50 years of work have gone into the mischievous smile that defines “King of Cool” Jack Nicholson. Born and raised in New Jersey, he was voted class clown at Manasquan High in1954. As …

Marcia Gay Harden is a living work on the beauty of art: The art of mothering, the art of creating, the art of acting, the art of caring. Marcia Gay has two Oscar nominations and …

 
We are fast approaching award season for the film industry, at least the part that we outsiders are familiar with – Screen Actors Guild Awards, Golden Globes and, of course, the Academy Awards – but …