Kimberly Reyes

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These Charming Men by Kimberly Reyes

Many music careers are over in four years — but that’s how long Jill Scott waited to release her second album.

Not that Scott took a break. She released a live album in 2001, wrote a forthcoming book of poetry called “The Minutes, The Moments, The Hours,” appeared on the UPN sitcom “Girlfriends,” started the Blues Babe foundation (named after her grandmother) for aspiring college students and worked on a Showtime movie called “Cave Dwellers,” which should be out later this year.

Still, with s...

We saw this cute quiz in Buzzfeed and couldn't resist the urge to share. Teen-queen Taylor Swift has been compared to many other lovelorn writers, but this may be the first time acclaimed poet Pablo Neruda has entered the conversation. With lines like:
"Oh, losing him was blue like I'd never known. Missing him was dark grey all along."
attribution can certainly get tricky. Color imagery, mixed metaphors ... what?! Is it the Chilean wordsmith or the crafty chanteuse? Knowing Swift's affinity f...

Yet Do I Marvel: A Tribute to Countee Cullen [by Ki...

Few musicians can boast the level of success that Billy Idol attained in the ’80s and early ’90s. Unfortunately, the “live hard and die young” punk rock ethos doesn’t come with a middle-age survival guide.

“When you’re young you never think you’ll be a 50-year-old rocking out with the young bands,” Idol told The Associated Press.

That’s exactly what Idol, 49, hopes to be doing next year.

The pop-punk patriarch has just released “Devil’s Playground,” his first full-length album since 1993’s un...

'Finding a Window' by Kimberly Reyes

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The 10 darkest moments of ''Making the Band'' Anyone who's been watching MTV's ''Making the Band 2'' knows how quickly the show went from being…

Are Queens of the Stone Age the new kings of rock? Their third CD, Songs for the Deaf, scored a No. 17 Billboard 200 debut on Sept. 14. But what do real people think? We took the Q...

Bernie Williams is hoping his new Latin jazz CD is a hit.

'Welcome to It' by Kimberly Reyes

MTV's previous ''Making the Band'' enticed us with a pregnancy shocker, a heated rap-off, and a contestant named Pocahontas. Not to be outdone, its superb…

With all the former pop princesses spending more time in the tabloids than on the charts (Britney trying to tame Kevin, Christina celebrating a new marriage, Jessica ending hers and Pink picking fight...