With the release of her new album, Ultraviolet, Kid Sister is finally making her mark on the music industry and showing us that she’s more than just another Kanye disciple. Over the last three years she has given us a taste of her fearless style and unique sound, but now we get to see what this Chi-town native is really capable of. We caught up with the spunky Kid Sister to talk about being a woman in a man's world and how if you don't like her sound, you might just be allergic to fun.

At Cambridge, he wasn’t as funny as John Cleese (born Cheese) or Graham Chapman, who were in the comedy footlights, and -- while deciding on a career as either a journalist or a chef -- he took up amateur drama. Since University, Sir Ian McKellen has become the consummate professional.

On August 7, Wale announced via Twitter that his debut album Attention Deficit, originally set for a September release, would be pushed back until October. On September 14, Wale announced that his album would be pushed back until November 3. On October 8, Wale announced that his album would be pushed back until November 10. You see where this is going. But, at last, on November 10, the album finally hit stores, only for news to break that Interscope had not provided enough in-store copies for fans to cop. All things considered, it has been a fairly tumultuous ride for the DC rapper, who, despite releasing several noteworthy mixtapes, has seen his rise to fame trickle in slowly compared to brethren like Drake and Kid Cudi. In between a steady stream of phone calls, text messages and Tweeting this summer, Wale took a few contemplative minutes to shed some insight on his pre-album, post-marijuana, state of mind.

With 2012, Roland Emmerich has briefly resurrected and subsequently destroyed the disaster film trend he started. After his mega-hit Independence Day made it a guilty pleasure to watch landmarks get decimated, a slew of movies with names like Volcano and Armageddon ended the world as we know it with sociopathic glee. But long after superheroes and sequels took over the summer blockbuster business, every two years or so Emmerich somehow feels the need to seriously fuck shit up all over again (except New York). He did it with The Day After Tomorrow a few years back, and now he's at it again, for what he says is his disaster curtain call. With earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes all in one movie, there's nothing left to do. We spoke to the director about Obama's influence on his movie, the suspension of disbelief, and why he cast Will Smith in Independence Day. (And can we attribute his iffy quote about Smith's African-American-ness to, um, a language barrier?)

If you're Anna Kendrick, you've got to be pretty excited right about now. Your second tour of duty in the Twilight franchise is coming out in a week, and you get to enjoy everything that comes with being involved in a phenomenon without the terrible scrutiny faced by its two leads. But more importantly, your role in George Clooney's next movie is receiving unilateral praise, and the film itself, Up in the Air, is already being called one of the year's best. And for the capper, there's a good chance that come winter, at the age of 24, you'll have your first Oscar nomination. You're no longer just the girl whose face was licked by Robert Pattinson. Here 's the budding star on her proximity to the supernovae that are Robert and Kristen, that infamous photo, and the sneaking suspicion that things are about to change.

For two decades, John Cusack has been everything to everyone. A lovestruck teen in Say Anything, a hopelessly romantic hitman in Grosse Pointe Blank, and strung-out puppeteer in Being John Malkovich. His latest role has him as another relatable man caught in extraordinary circumstances, as a part-time limo driver outrunning the end of the world in Roland Emmerich's disaster opus 2012, out Friday. We sat down with the star to talk about Roland Emmerich's mad genius, and what it's like being the Everyman.

2012 week continues as we celebrate the coming apocalypse with a series of interviews with its survivors. Yesterday we ran an interview with a fiending Amanda Peet, and today we get to the bottom of what a respected stage actor like Chiwetel Ejiefor is doing in a Roland Emmerich disaster movie. After wowing audiences on stages across London, Ejefor made his big screen splash in the grimy thriller Dirty Pretty Things opposite Audrey Tatou. Since then, he's churned out reliably stellar work in films like Inside Man, Love Actually, Children of Men, and American Gangster. In 2012, Ejiofor plays Adrian Helmsley, a government geologist who is among the first to discover the Earth's core heating up to a potentially catastrophic level. Here he is trying to explain the popularity of disaster porn, interracial relationships on film, and working with Angelina in the upcoming Salt.

Designers say fashion repeats itself every 20 years, rendering itself en vogue once more. A mere glance at the catwalks will prove this theory to be true: shoulder pads are back, the perm is being re-debated, and neon is the new black. Another trend sweeping across the fashion shows -- and the faces of anyone who is anyone in the modish crowds -- is glasses. Whether they be tinted or clear, if your face isn’t framed then you’re not a picture worth looking at. Jason Ng, founder and creative director of Cassius Eyewear, unveils the secret to finding the perfect pair of specs.

In about five days, Roland Emmerich will attempt to break his own movie death toll record with 2012, his 400th film about the end of the world. As a lead up to the festivities, we'll be running interviews all week with some of the survivors of Emmerich's cinematic wrecking ball. First up is Amanda Peet, the actress who first broke out as Matthew Perry's wife in The Whole Nine Yards and later rejoined him on NBC's short-lived dramedy Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Even though the actress refused to shake my hand for fear of passing along the dreaded H1N1 to her two-year-old, she did make it clear that she'd spend her last day on Earth whizzing out on Skid.

Director Lee Daniels never gave up on getting his film, Precious, made – a battle which parallels its main character’s fight for survival. Clareece ‘Precious’ Jones is sixteen-years old, lives in Harlem and is about to have her second child. She's got a verbally abusive mother. Precious is overweight, illiterate and poor, but has an aura radiating from within that let’s you know she may be down, but never out. The film follows her gritty journey to an alternative school where she finds hope, truth and a deeper understanding of herself. Daniels’ film attracted a pretty interesting array of big-name musical talent like Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz to play roles. The most risky casting by Daniels, though, might've been comedienne Mo’Nique as Precious' abusive mother, Mary. With Oscar buzz at a steady build over Mo’Nique’s star turn, it's looking more and more like the film's director and stand-up comedienne-gone-serious are having the last laugh. We spoke with Daniels about his pretty powerful film; one that takes the time to reminds us that every day is a new day and life is, indeed, very, very precious.