Your Eye On Entertainment
By: Jacob Elyachar One of the acts that will be taking the Dancefestopia stage tomorrow is Irv da Phenom. Under the watchful eye of his mentor: Tech N9ne, Irv has grown into an impeccable rapper that specializes in “Human Music.” He recently released a new album: Who the Expletive is Irv da Phenom? and [...]
By: Jacob Elyachar For the past couple of years, Matt Mullins has been at the top of his game. He created the Sideswipe Performance Team, an Xtreme Martial Arts group that have made appearances on 30 Seconds to Fame and participated on two seasons of America’s Got Talent. Since those appearances on the NBC hit [...]
By: Jacob Elyachar One of the strongest performers that appeared on the second season of The Voice was 51-year-old Kim Yarbrough. Since her Blind Audition, she captured the audience with her enchanting voice. But before she went on the NBC hit, Kim already had quite the resume. She has performed in countless theatrical [...]
By: Jacob Elyachar One of the most highly anticipated music festivals taking place this summer is Dancefestopia. Located in Downtown Kansas City’s Richard L. Berkley Riverfront Park, concertgoers will have the opportunity attend this two-day high energy music festival which will not feature major artists including Wiz Khalifa, Flo Rida, Dev, 30H!3 and Matisyahu but [...]
By: Jacob Elyachar Star Wars celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary today. This movie franchise changed everything in both the science fiction and fantasy genres in cinema. If Star Wars did not become successful, then any future franchises including Alien, Avatar and the Transformers would not exist. Jacobelyacharjournalist.com is honoring the six-film franchise by counting down the [...]
By: Jacob Elyachar Since the show’s humble beginnings back in 2002, American Idol’s season finales have always featured incredible surprise guests and astonishing parings between a contestant and a music legend. This blog post revisits some of these best performances and hopes that American Idol: Season 11 delivers another spectacular finale. Elliott Yamin and Mary [...]
By: Jacob Elyachar Welcome to a new edition of New Music Tuesday! This week, I will be looking at new albums from John Mayer, Haley Rinehart and Sara Bareilles. In addition to these albums, New Music Tuesday will also review and grade new singles from Big & Rich and Chris Brown. Born and Raised-John Mayer [...]
By: Jacob Elyachar Stop! If you have not read part one of this two-part series, click on the link before you read this article: http://jakes-take.com/2012/05/21/the-top-10-best-performances-from-american-idol-season-11-part-one/ The American Idol finale is where dreams are realized and superstars are born. Tonight, Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips will perform three songs: their favorite performance of the season, Idol [...]
By: Jacob Elyachar Tomorrow night, Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez will perform their final three songs on the American Idol finale which will be filmed at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live. While they are prepping for one of the biggest nights in their lives, jacobelyacharjournalist.com has prepared a two-part series highlighting the 10 best [...]
By: Jacob Elyachar My series on Rising Authors continues as I sat down with New Orleans-based author Keven Newsome. In addition to his responsibilities as a graduate student at the New Orleans Baptists Theological Seminary, he founded and is the administrator for the New Authors’ Fellowship and creates multimedia pieces for Newsome Creative. Recently, he [...]
