The Texan behind the popular 'Texan in Tokyo' blog and author of 'My Japanse Husband Thinks I'm Crazy' talks about how she got started, and the costs of 'making it big.'
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Interview: Susie Krabacher, Co-Founder and President of Mercy and Sharing, a Haitian Children’s Relief Organization
Mercy & Sharing is a foundation that feeds and gives hope to Haiti's abandoned children.
Read More »Interview: Actor Saul Reichlin on the Holocaust-Themed ‘The Good and the True’ and his Sholem Aleichem Dramatizations
Saul Reichlin has also toured 35 cities with his dramatizations of stories by Sholom Aleichem.
Read More »A Time to Laugh: A Conversation With Beth Henley, Pultizer Prize Winning Playwright About Her New Comedy, ‘Laugh’
Beth Henley's new comedy 'Laugh' was inspired by slapstick comedy and the comedy greats of the golden era of silent films like Mable Norman.
Read More »Clinton Sparks, The Mowgli’s, Kylie Morgan “Band Together to Banish Bullying”
Clinton Sparks, The Mowgli's, and Kylie Morgan―hailing from hip-hop, alternative, and country respectively―are coming together to write a song for the “Band Together to Banish Bullying" project.
Read More »Review: ‘Smith Tapes: I’m Not The Beatles: John & Yoko Interviews 1969-72’
Howard Smith's personable recordings of interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono bring the couple into the listener's living room.
Read More »Interview: Jo Kukathas, of Wild Rice’s ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’
"I love watching traditional performances in Malaysia or Japan, where people feel quite comfortable talking or eating or sleeping through sections. I wish we could find a way to allow that again."
Read More »Prisons Within Prisons: An Interview with Prison Law Expert Christopher Zoukis
In most federal prisons, there is a building designated the Special Housing Unit. This can be thought of as a prison within a prison.
Read More »An interview with Power Boxing Olympian Marlen Esparza
In this enlightening conversation, Esparza talked about the release of her 'Power Boxing Workout' DVD from Acacia Lifestyle.
Read More »Interview: Rebekah Marine, a Model of Diversity
The fashion and advertising industries have promoted beauty standards which are unattainable and unrealistic for the average woman. But amputee model Rebekah Marine thinks things are starting to change.
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