Articles by Ann Powers

217 articles since 2006

She’s not afraid to make key changes

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | 12:00AM, September 24
Jenny Lewis no longer calls Silver Lake home, but she hasn’t moved to Laurel Canyon. Read more
 

A sweet ‘9 to 5’ gig

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | September 21, 2008
DOLLY PARTON is at her most delightful when she’s laughing at her own jokes. Read more
 

Live: Janet Jackson at Staples Center

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | September 19, 2008
Control is the ruling principle of Janet Jackson’s career and, as far as the public knows, of her life. Read more
 

Fabulous’ determination

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | September 14, 2008
ONE OF the many prescient lines uttered by Corinne Burns, the New Wave Lolita played by Diane Lane in 1982’s “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains,” comes after the drug-induced death of a has-been bass player in the ladies’ room of a scummy Northeastern nightclub. Read more
 

Death’ shows there’s life yet in Metallica

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | September 12, 2008
Metallica Death Magnetic (Warner Bros. Read more
 

Sex is the brand

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | September 10, 2008
RUSSELL BRAND is a bad, bad boy. Read more
 

Tearing down the walls at the VMAs

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | September 9, 2008
At one point during the Sunday night broadcast of the 25th annual MTV Video Music Awards, the action apparently switched from Paramount Studios to the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip, where the rock band Paramore’s performance was inciting a riot. Read more
 

Ne-Yo, Keri Hilson and the style that lasts: R&B

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | September 7, 2008
LOOKING classic-casual in a summer blazer, gray fedora and matching silk scarf, Ne-Yo leaned over his laptop in a West Hollywood recording studio one mid-August afternoon, playing selections from “Year of the Gentleman,” his third solo album, out Sept. Read more
 

Suspicious of the cool kids’ pop

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | September 2, 2008
Everyone has had the experience of disagreeing with a critic, but do critics ever second-guess themselves? Read more
 

Live: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | August 26, 2008
An electric drone wafted through the air before Radiohead took the stage Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl. Read more
 
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