Matthew Weiner is the creator and executive producer of Mad Men, an AMC original series, now in its third season. Since its debut, the series has garnered an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series; two Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Drama Series; a Peabody Award; a Producers Guild Award; two Writers Guild Awards; AFI Awards for one of the... read full bio
Beauty pageant winner and actress Maria Conchita Alonso, the first contemporary international Latina superstar, recently began speaking out about her struggle with bulimia. Struggling with the condition for nearly a decade, resulting in damage to her esophagus and her teeth, she eventually sought help for the self-destructive syndrome. With the help of a balanced diet, exercise, and a physician specializing... read full bio
Dr. Michio Kaku is a well-known theoretical physicist and environmental activist who is well-known throughout the world for his ground-breaking physics research. At the Graduate Center of the City University of New York's City College, he holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics. Dr. Kaku has dedicated his life to realizing Einstein's ideal of combining the four basic forces... read full bio
Michael Pitt is an American actor, model and musician. As he advanced through the independent film ranks, Michael landed parts in thrillers like Murder by Numbers and Funny Games, as well as tragedies like Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Dreamers, and Last Days. Returning to television, he portrayed Mason Verger in Hannibal and Jimmy Darmody on Boardwalk Empire. In... read full bio
Sweden's Uppsala is where Mattias Klum was born. In addition to being a photographer full-time since 1985, he has directed and worked as a cinematographer on a number of motion picture and television productions since 1994. In his articles, books, videos, seminars, and exhibitions, Mattias Klum is renowned throughout the world for his descriptions and depictions of animals, plants, and... read full bio
Canadian Home Improvement Contractor and TV Host- TV shows “Holmes on Holmes” and “Holmes Inspection”- Beginning with Holmes on Homes and subsequent shows, he rescues Toronto, Ontario, area homeowners from renovations gone wrong. He continued in his successor TV series, Holmes Inspection. He is also a judge on HGTV's show Handyman Superstar Challenge and its American counterpart All American Handyman... read full bio
Mark PIncus is the visionary behind Zynga and Zynga.org. He founded the company in 2007 to enable users to build social connections through games. On his way to Zynga, Mark started three companies. In 2003 he launched Tribe.net, one of he first social networks in the industry. Before that he founded Support.com and built the company... read full bio
Mats Jansson is a Swedish businessperson. He was Chief Executive Officer of SAS Group from 2007 to 2010. Jansson was educated in economics and sociology at the University College of _rebro, before he started a career in ICA, where he held a range of senior positions from 1973 to 1994. He then worked as CEO of Catena until 1999 when... read full bio
Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. July wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won a special jury prize at the Sundance... read full bio
After a brief stint as a teen star, actress Martha Plimpton rose to prominence as one of the most esteemed stage actors in New York theater and a skilled character actor in television and movies. The nine-year-old daughter of actor Keith Carradine made her stage debut at age nine before breaking into the film industry a few years later. Although... read full bio
Capturing the heart of Middle America, this quintet from Minneapolis, the Motion City itself, plays some wicked hot, stop-and-start Pop Punk. Packed with all the necessary materials needed to establish an original groove - intensity, creativity and energy - the team produces, dare it be said, a new soundtrack for a set formula. Throughout their twenty years together, the band... read full bio
One of the rare bands that can combine inventive music with deep words while being highly entertaining and thrilling a crowd is Moon Taxi. The band's "Cabaret" album from 2012 is a multifaceted, layered project that showcases the band's developing understanding of its own musical identity. Following up on their live album "Live Ride" from 2009, "Cabaret" demonstrates the difficulties... read full bio
MS MR, pronounced Miz Mister, are an electrifying and entrancing pop duo consisting of a MS, Lizzy Plapinger, and a MR, Max Hershenow. The New York based Vassar College graduates hit it big in Germany first before floating back to the states. Their breakout singles ""Hurricane"" and ""Fantasy"" were well received for their vintage sound. They included ""Hurricane"" on their... read full bio
Masters of Illusion Live! is the touring magic show based on the World Magic Award-winning TV series. Consisting of eye-popping illusionists, daring escape and quick change artists, exotic animals and beautiful dancers – all LIVE! This theatrical experience is totally live with no camera tricks or computer graphics. Audience members will become part of the act as they are called... read full bio
Michael Chasen is a businessman and entrepreneur from Cheshire, Connecticut. While attending American University, Chasen befriended future co-founder Matthew Pittinsky in his dorms. Blackboard Inc. was founded by the duo in 1999. Chasen became CEO of the company. He became one of the youngest CEO’s of a publicly traded company. Blackboard Inc. is a technology company that developed educational software,... read full bio
For 26 years, shes played one of the ultimate survivors of daytime television Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless.In real life, actress Melody Thomas Scott has endured her own personal drama, dealing with the painful bladder condition, interstitial cystitis or IC. Melodys story is filled with the pain and frustration shared by millions of other IC sufferers,... read full bio
Curly haired, sandy-voiced actress Mary Steenburgen is a natural when it comes to playing Southerners, probably because she hails from the region herself. Born in Arkansas, Steenburgen was the daughter of a railroad employee. Pursuing drama in college, she headed to New York, where she worked with an improvisational troupe. She was spotted by Jack Nicholson, who cast her as... read full bio
During her extraordinary performing career, Michele Lee has starred in Broadway musicals, feature films, television movies and specials, recorded hit records and starred in a prime-time series that ran for fourteen seasons. She has produced films for television and has directed hours of quality prime-time programming. Outside of her prolific life in entertainment, she has centered herself in a close-knit... read full bio
Universal recording artist Mayra Veronica is climbing the Billboard Hot Dance Club charts with her latest dance single "Freak Like Me". This new record which includes remixes by Eddie Amador and Grammy award winning producer Dave Aude'. In the video for the single, she stars alongside iconic Italian American actor Antonio Sabato Jr. Mayra's performance style has been described as... read full bio
MAGIC! is a Canadian reggae fusion band, composed of well-known songwriter/ record producer Nasri Atweh on lead vocals with guitarist/keyboardist Mark Pelli"" Pellizzer, drummer Alex Tanas and bassist Ben Spivak. Nasri had been working with and writing songs for different pop acts prior to the start of the band. He had met Mark Pelli in the studio, and within a... read full bio
