Ever told your artistic friend they're 'wasting' their talent? Here's why that can hurt, not help.

I need good live music only a little less intensely than a caffeine aficionado needs their next shot of espresso.

And woe to the mortal who gets between me and my fix.

In fact, when I go to events with my friends, I usually have to remind myself that they’re also there to socialize, and it isn’t polite to hiss at them when they try to start a conversation with me. I haunt open mic nights semi-professionally, and I played as part of a duo in Florence, Italy, for more than a year while I lived there.

Keep Reading
music art career fulfillment talent
Family

He asked her to turn down a promotion to spare his ego. Now their story is going viral.

Twitter user Kimber Dowsett was bored and waiting to catch a flight when she caught wind of a couple arguing.

Like most of us would (though we might not admit it), she quickly found herself listening in on the juicy drama.

When she realized what the argument was about, she pulled out her phone and began documenting the scene on Twitter for the benefit of her 24,000 followers.

Keep Reading
gender women relationships work equality career men
More

Jaw-dropping pay inequity pushed Catt Sadler to quit 'E! News.'

'How can I operate with integrity and stay on at E if they’re not willing to pay me the same as him?'

After years gracing TV screens on the E! entertainment channel, Catt Sadler is saying good-bye to the network — not because she wants to, but because she couldn't carry on with her head held high knowing what she knows now about her salary.

In an open letter published on her personal website, the celebrity news host explained her decision to leave despite adoring her "work family" and hosting two successful staple programs for the network: "Daily Pop" and "E! News."

Keep Reading
culture gender women money television work feminism equality career pay gap patriarchy catt sadler e! news jason kennedy pay inequity
More

15 celebrities wanted you to see how they are when the camera's off. So they took photos.

Andrew H. Walker has photographed a lot of celebrities in his life. But at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, he decided to try something ... different.

"[Actors] have, not only this personal inside voice, but they have a public persona that they put out there, and they also have their private self," said Walker, a staff photographer at Shutterstock, in an interview with Mashable. "There's this whole other layer of themselves as people. I found that really, really intriguing."

Walker placed a piece of tape on a table and told an impressive list of "A-list" celebrities to pose on either side of it as their "public" and their "private" selves. The only rule was that they couldn't cross the tape line, so he could composite the photos later. As for which side of the tape they "performed" their "selves" on? That was entirely up to them.

Keep Reading
culture art sigourney weaver celebrities actors actresses photography self identity lupita nyong'o career anne hathaway rami malek pop culture john legend images photographs public felicity jones a-list celebrities persona jeffrey tambor mahershala ali chadwick boseman sandra oh richard gere amy adams oscar isaac parker posey
More