DANGEROUS GROUND
Does A Play's Setting Automatically Make It Political?

Melissa Webster, 06/20/12

Screenwriter and Freelance Journalist

With this triumphant return to his punk rock roots, the burning question on everyone's mind is whether or not this is the beginning of a Larry Livermore return to the music business.

American Photo, 06/20/12

Photo Magazine

What does it take to be world famous? Andy Warhol spent a lifetime working that one out, and he succeeded beyond even his wildest dreams.

Dusty Wright, 06/20/12

Host, The Dusty Wright Show; co-founder, CultureCatch.com

With so much new music to consume, I wanted share some of my favorite new (and few old) rock, pop, and soul picks for Summer 2012.

Regina Weinreich, 06/20/12

Author, Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics

Everyone loves Woody Allen. At a press conference at the Regency for his new film To Rome With Love on Tuesday, reporters took that as a given, asking his actors how they get past their own adoration for the auteur.

Karen Dalton-Beninato, 06/20/12

Editor of self at KarenDaltonBeninato.com

As a writer I'm generally partial to words, but the kids' photos show much more than an article could. These are their images of working hard to see a better life, and fighting to the end.

Brad Schreiber, 06/20/12

Author, screenwriter

You don't imitate someone like Ray Bradbury. And you don't edit him. At best, you adapt him and you hew as closely as possible to his lyricism of the strange.

Jonathan Kim, 06/20/12

Film Critic for ReThink Reviews and the Uprising Show

The Invisible War won the Festival Audience Award for documentaries at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and is a powerful and scathing exposé going after the epidemic of sexual assault in the armed forces.

Alina Gregorian, 06/20/12

Poet

The Huffington Post Reading Series is a new feature spotlighting videos from contemporary poets.

Cheech Marin, 06/20/12

Actor/Comedian/Activist/Art Collector

was literally backed into a corner of the exhibition by three large scary braided-armpit-hair Chicanas wearing overalls. They reminded me of my Aunt Bolita, somebody you would never want to mess with in life. "Where's all the political art!!"

Jane Shure, 06/20/12

Psychotherapist, Leadership Coach, Author

What are we willing to do to protect those who are innocent and vulnerable? What are we willing to do to expose practices that disregard the dignity of others?

J. Michael Welton, 06/20/12

Editor and Publisher, ArchitectsAndArtisans.com

The assignment was nothing if not formidable: Create a new restaurant inside Frank Lloyd Wright's crowning achievement on Fifth Avenue in New York.

Jon Potter, 06/20/12

President, Fan Freedom Project

Fans shouldn't have to compete against robots to get good tickets for face value. Bots (and the shady characters deploying them) are preventing real fans from seeing the teams and artists they love.

Scott Mendelson, 06/20/12

Film critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

As the initial reviews for Pixar's Brave roll in, it's clear that the film is both pretty solid and somewhat disappointing. One of the running themes of said reviews is that the film is merely 'Dreamworks good'. If you think that's supposed to be an insult, it is.

Travis Morrison, 06/19/12

Director of Commercial Production, The Huffington Post

These are some of my memories and methods of wanting music so badly that I just reached out and grabbed it even before Napster made it easy and cool. Apparently, none of my cohort ever did any of this stuff. Either that, or they are doing that generational-amnesia thing.

Alicia Keys, 06/20/12

Singer, songwriter, AIDS activist, philanthropist

I've always believed women have an incredible power to be catalysts of change for other women of the world. It is our job to fight for the issues that matter most to us, and realize how much of an impact we can have when forces unite.

Debra Ollivier, 06/20/12

Contributing editor and writer at large, Huff/Post50

Cloris Leachman's sense of humor has powered her through one of the most illustrious TV and film careers in the business. She recently completed three features. We caught up with Leachman, who riffed on life, miracles, and more.

W. Scott Poole, 06/20/12

Author of Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting

Historians shouldn't worry that the general public might decide that Abraham Lincoln spent his free time staking and decapitating vampires.