Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine.

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This year's Emmy host has the same theater-kid vibe as Anne Hathaway -- but he's nearly universally loved

Sacha Jenkins spoke to Salon about making a film about the guy from Buffalo who embraced an over-the-to life

Read the text of the indictment charging the House majority leader with criminal conspiracy.

A roundup of the most stylish writing and freshest ideas I read on the Internet in 2014

It involves dancing!

The Grammy love was equally distributed: Gotye, Frank Ocean, Mumford & Sons, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Fun., and more!