POP INTERVIEW: Joe Wenke Teaches Us How to Become Culture Arsonists!
Comedian Joe Wenke is the author of You Got to Be Kidding, described as a Bill Maher take on religion, shutting down myths and stories...
POP INTERVIEW: Gary Delfiner of Screen Media Ventures & Popcornflix
Gary Delfiner is the senior vice president of digital distribution for Screen Media Ventures, the largest indie distributor taking film to television platforms as well and its new web distribution service, Popcornflix. With an app available, you can now watch your favorite films anywhere!
POP INTERVIEW: Feminist Publisher/Author Felice Newman
Felice Newman, publisher of Cleis Press since 1980 and an author herself, wishes to change the modern day attitude regarding feminism as a naughty word.
POP INTERVIEW: “Taking Woodstock” Author Elliot Tiber on Ang Lee Loving His Memoirs
Elliot Tiber has seen one book become an Oscar nomination-considered foreign film representing Belgium, High Street, and another, an incredibly lifelike and emotional big...
POP INTERVIEW: Producer And Actor David Barckhoff on His Winston Churchill Film
Did you catch producer/actor David Barckhoff's roles as a police officer in the Tom Cruise film, Jack Reacher, or as a basketball referee in Matt Damon's Promised Land? For his new Winston Churchill film which he is producing...
POP INTERVIEW: Rob Williams and Rodney Johnson of Guest House Films
Actor John Barrymore supposedly said, "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." Rob Williams and Rodney Johnson are partners in more ways than you'd expec
POP INTERVIEW: Two LGBT Leaders in PR: Steve Deitsch and Mikey Rox
Nicole interviewed two outstanding publicists who are making Mad Men era's "straight employees only" whispered policy obsolete.
POP INTERVIEW: Sylvia Binsfeld Brings the “Dreams”
Sylvia Binsfeld presented her short film, Dorme, at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and is now selling it along with a book for children.
POP INTERVIEW: Frank Polito Makes LGBT Characters Realistic for Teens
Frank Antonio Polito, has written several young adult novels and plays, blogged, written for Instinct Magazine and acted. He works hard to portray LGBT characters in normal, though dramatic, culturally acceptable "straight" settings like you might imagine on mainstream shows like Pretty Little Liars, The Carrie Diaries, Hannah Montana or Gossip Girl. As a fan of young adult series, despite being an adult [*blush*...*hide Vampire Diaries from my iPad viewing history*], I really had to talk to him about his awesome work!
POP INTERVIEW: Lady Gaga’s New Shoe Queen, Kira Bundlie, of Hourglass Footwear
Currently, she and her team are working on a pair of custom shoes for Lady Gaga, but the Hourglass Footwear shoes made by Kira...
POP INTERVIEW: M3 Creative’s Andy Meyers Wowed SXSW with His First Feature Film!
Andy Meyers, through his production company M3 Creative, brought us the 2012 SXSW and Sundance film festivals’ selection, John Dies at the End. The indie...
POP INTERVIEW: Nurse/Comedienne/Author Kelli Dunham
Brooklynite Kelli Dunham is a nurse...and a funny one! She has several comedy albums out, her latest being Why Is the Fat One Always Angry?
POP INTERVIEW: “Sister, Sister” Series Creator Kim Bass Makes a Western!
Kim Bass is most famous for creating hit children's programming: the animated Men in Black, Nickelodeon's Kenan & Kel and Sister, Sister. He also wrote the screenplay for A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, and some TV show you may have watched in the 1990's called In Living Color. His upcoming film The UnBroken is set to shoot this fall.
POP INTERVIEW: Mansion Fitness Owner Darren Misaresh Blends Stellar Decor and Exercise
Did you already forget about your get in shape New Year's resolution? Darren Misaresh, the hip LA gym's co-owner along with Derrick Inglut, will put you in your place back on your workout!
POP INTERVIEW: 50 Shades of Environmental Grey with Filmmaker Veronica Grey
Veronica Grey calls herself "the surf lady," and wanting to protect the surf lifestyle extended to producing her documentary, Aqua Seafoam Shame. The island-like mass of plastic debris at the center of her film, made on an iPhone, is located 1,000 miles from California's coastline.
POP INTERVIEW: “Chuck” Actor Vik Sahay Has an “Awkward Sexual Adventure”
Canadian actor Vik Sahay's TV character, Lester Patel, was once confused for a lesbian. Making his move to notable film roles, his most recent being the victim of Steve Stifler's jokes in American Reunion, he stars in the Toronto Film Festival selection, My Awkward Sexual Adventure, which will premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival this Friday.
POP INTERVIEW: CALLmeKAT Chats Music…Meee-ow!
Born in Denmark, Katrine Ottosen, discovered music on an old piano. Nowadays, she goes by CALLmeKAT. “In the beginning where it was only myself...
POP INTERVIEW: Matt Brady on Working with Jessica Biel and Sundance 2013
Matt Brady produced Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, a 2013 Sundance selection about a woman's increasing curiosity when a neighbor resembles her deceased mother. Before he headed off to the film festival, mingling with fellow filmmakers and countless goodie bags, he chatted with Pop about his uniquely captivating first feature film.
POP INTERVIEW: 2013 Oscar Nominated Producer Daniel Dreifuss Breaks Ground for Chilean Cinema
Daniel Dreifuss co-produced the surprise Cannes hit, No, a Chilean film that garnered the festival's prestigious Art Cinema Award. On January 10, he received the news bound to change his life forever:
Edin Dzeko: A New Star Footballer in a Post-Beckham Era
At one time in his home country of Bosnia, Edin Dzeko didn't have enough food "for three meals a day." Today, he stands as Manchester City's success story, the striker who could: the man with the team's second highest trade.
“The Carrie Diaries” Premiere Review: It’s Like, Totally 80’s Rad, AnnaSophia
Nicole weighs in on "The Carrie Diaries."
POP INTERVIEW: Sylvia Allen on How She Helps African Children Live Normal Lives
Sylvia Allen is the founder of Sylvia's Children, a non-profit charity devoted to helping Ugandan children attain things we take for granted in the modern world, like water, education, health care and books, and e-mailed responses regarding her experiences working with her "children," as well as chatting the ins and outs of heading the charity and its volunteer work with her biological son and daughter.
POP INTERVIEW: Sir Ari Gold Inspires the LGBT Community Through His Music
Sir Ari Gold is a champion of gay rights, the singer with the most #1 videos on LOGO and tour mate of artists like Cyndi Lauper. His new album, Between the Spirit & the Flesh, stays true to speaking his mind.
POP INTERVIEW: Finn Riggins’ Husband and Wife Bandmates Talk Songwriting
If you fight with your wife over who bought the worst canned tuna ever last weekend, consider yourself lucky: at least you aren’t...
POP INTERVIEW: Firebird Chef Paul Joseph Brings Russian Food to Midtown West Manhattan
Chef Paul Joseph takes NYC diners on a culinary journey.