is a Canadian indie rock singer and guitarist. She records and performs with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene as well as having a successful solo career. Her second solo album, Masters of the Burial, was released by Arts & Crafts Records in September 2009. Her partner is Stars bandmate Evan Cranley. Amy Millan released her debut solo album,... read full bio

What's most astonishing about Amy Ray's torrid, ferocious solo debut is just how convincingly she wears the colors of the riot grrrl. Save the dreamy acoustic Lazyboy," the record rages like a showdown at the barricades, with Ray and her cadre of subversives (notably Sugar's David Barbe, Joan Jett, and Southern undergrounders the Butchies and the Rock*A*Teens) tearing into mainstream... read full bio

New York Times chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin is a leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America. The founder and editor of DealBook, an online daily financial news service published by The Times, he also is an assistant editor of business and finance news, helping to guide and shape the paper's coverage. New York... read full bio

Hailing from Sweden, Anja Hynynen comes from a long pedigree of textile workers, artisans, and craftsmen. Her impeccably tailored garments-made from vegetable-dyed wool, hemp, cotton, silk, and linen-are almost architectural in their construction, featuring cascading ruffles, lattice-like cutouts, and wide swathes of harlequin diamonds.... read full bio

Anne Brouwer is a Senior Partner with extensive retail management and consulting experience. Clients find her retail experience invaluable when helping them develop effective strategies and new concepts, and optimize performance in merchandising, operations and the customer experience. Anne leads our softlines consulting practice, and has worked with a diverse group of clients including Lands' End, Limited, Cabela's, Curves International,... read full bio

Annie Dillard is a highly skilled writer. It has been said that her prose pulls you into the event she is describign - making the reader feel as if they are there with her. Dillard brings knowledge into her discussions from the whole spectrum of thought by referencing physics, numerous religious disciplines, literature, medicine, anthropology and folklore to name some... read full bio

Pop artist Anoop Desai is best known for his time as a finalist on the eighth season of "American Idol." This modern gentleman combines classic southern charm with a soulful, fresh appeal. His unique name means incomparable- a word he lives life by. Anoop broke boundaries and set new records in college, on "American Idol", and now in the... read full bio

As the creator and executive producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, one of the highest-rated dramas in television history, Anthony E. Zuiker is one of the most creative and multifaceted individuals working in Hollywood today. Not only did Zuiker develop a blockbuster television series; he built an entertainment empire that transformed television programming and advertising. A world-wide phenomenon, the CSI... read full bio

Antoine Fuqua has established himself as one of the foremost industry talents of his generation. Through his diverse body of work, he has achieved his goal of making highly stylized films that resonate thematically and personally with audiences around the world. Fuqua confirmed his place as a young director of unique vision and craft with the extremely successful release of... read full bio

Antoine van Agtmael is founder, president and chief investment officer of Emerging Markets Management, L.L.C. He is known for coining the term "emerging markets." He has held several senior level management positions at the World Bank Group, where he founded the IFC Emerging Markets Index and Data Base. He is the author of Emerging Securities Markets and co-editor... read full bio

Antwone Fisher was born in prison to a teenaged mother. He became a ward of the state, and was placed in foster care immediately. He spent two years in a loving foster home, but when the foster mother had become too attached to Antwone, he was placed in a foster home where he would suffer twelve years of abuse. He... read full bio

Art Smith is an American chef who has worked for former Florida governor Bob Graham and until 2007 was personal chef to Oprah Winfrey. Art Smith expertise is Southern cuisine. While attending Florida State University Art Smith completed culinary internships with The Greenbrier and the Walt Disney Magic Kingdom College Program. Art Smith has published two cookbooks, Back to the... read full bio

Arturo Sandoval is fluent in at least four musical languages. He can burn through an Afro-Cuban groove, tear up a bebop tune, soar over a Mozart concerto and sooth you with a luscious ballad; with equal power and grace. He is one of the World's most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugel horn, as well as a... read full bio

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAID, At the tender age of 22, Ashley Rhodes-Courter is living a pretty fantastic life. She's attractive, well-spoken and college-educated, with doting parents and a newly published memoir that's generating national buzz. But how she got there is the real story, vividly chronicled in a book that recounts her journey from neglected, abused orphan stuck in... read full bio

Two critically acclaimed modern talents and deeply respected purveyors of their respective traditions, Asleep at the Wheel and Mandy Barnett will team up for a very special run of select dates in the fall of 2012. Asleep at the Wheel, the legendary performers of Western Swing, country and blues, and Mandy Barnett, a world class vocalist in her own right,... read full bio

Pratt's career received its impetus when in 1992 he became the first African-American pianist to win the Naumburg International Piano Competition. He won the Naumburg prize, which launched him into a strenuous performance schedule, with 40 to 50 concerts that year and 70 in the following year, when he signed with the New York City artist management firm IMG Artists.... read full bio

Bam Margera is a well-known professional skateboarder, television/radio personality, and daredevil. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and became famous after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew. He has since appeared in MTV's Viva La Bam and Bam's Unholy Union, all three Jackass movies, also Haggard and Minghags, both of which he co-wrote and directed. Bam... read full bio

How do you turn a $1,000 loan into a five-billion dollar business? According to self-made real estate empress Barbara Corcoran, you do it by learning how to fail well. Barbara tells the story of how, armed with a loan from her boyfriend and her own gritty determination, she quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate... read full bio

Barbara Kingsolver's twelve books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction include the novels The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven and The Poisonwood Bible. Translated into nineteen languages, her work has won a devoted worldwide readership and many awards, including the National Humanities Medal. Her most recent book is the highly praised, New York Times bestselling "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Barbara Kingsolver... read full bio

Touring for close to a decade, Beatlemania Now has become the premier multi-media Beatles tribute show in America today. Incorporating 5 costume changes, featuring over 150 Big screen images and performing over 35 songs in a two-hour extravaganza, Beatlemania Now chronologically traces the Beatles career from their 1964 U.S. debut explosion on the The Ed Sullivan Show, to the finale... read full bio