by Tara Diane

Yummmm, hummus is one of my favorite snacks. Here is my favorite hummus recipe, tuned specifically to my veggie hating, lemon-loving taste buds. Oh and I also included a festive way to serve it that will make your friends make fun of you behind your back!

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by AJ Focht

The time warp has flipped and landed The Rocky Horror Picture Show at its 35th anniversary. Marking three and a half decades as the premier cult classic, the “sweet transvestites from Transsexual, Transylvania” are celebrating by invading your homes. Comic-Con 2010 brought the announcement that Glee would be doing a RHPS episode (which is set to air on Oct 26th), and now it has been confirmed that Dr. Frank-N-Furter & Co. will also be taking over your games console with a Guitar Hero track pack.

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by Nicole Powers

“Acceptance was the key for me.”
– Cherie Currie

You can’t always control the situations you find yourself in, but you can control how you react to them. This is a lesson that Runaways frontwoman, singer and rock & roll icon Cherie Currie learned the hard way.

After a chance meeting with vocalist/guitarist Joan Jett and demented pop n’ rock Svengali Kim Fowley (a producer whose credits at the time included the novelty hit “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa”), Currie found herself at the eye of the storm that was The Runaways at age fifteen. The year was 1975, and the male-dominated industry was keen to dismiss the fledgling Los Angeles-based all-girl quintet (which, during Currie’s tenure with the group, featured Lita Ford on lead guitar, Jackie Fox on bass, and the late Sandy West on drums).

Under the guidance (or, it could be argued, misguidance) of Fowley, who was a formidable taskmaster, the girls relentlessly rehearsed until they were a beyond tight unit and a force to be reckoned with. Creatively and musically, Fowley’s berating and bullying – his primary motivational tactics – paid off. Over the course of the next two very hectic years The Runaways would leave an indelible mark on the music industry, smashing the misconceptions of those who ever doubted that women could rock.

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Laykafiction Suicide in Paris Is My Ship

• INTO: Photography, modeling, music, dance, tattoos, piercing, art, traveling, sport, hair, make-up.
• NOT INTO: Drama.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Love, smiles, care, snow, chocolate, friends, my dog, play, dreams, new things, tomorrow, new shoes, flowers, pin-up art, my cats, my iPhone, the ocean, my mum, warm weather, watermelon, vintage clothes shopping, road trips, circus arts, beautiful women, and the list goes on and on…
• MAKES ME SAD: When people don’t appreciate what they have, violence against animals, that I can’t imagine life without cell phones, misunderstandings, people who pretend to understand and don’t, hate, homelessness, some songs, fake friends, racist people, people picking on others to feel better about themselves, when vacation is over…
• HOBBIES: Photography, dancing, music, movies, wakeboarding, kite-surfing, HC16, games, drawing, painting, dreaming, shopping.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Technology, sex, my animal, ocean, music and so many other things actually.

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