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Idol makes up for lost time in San Francisco

After that horrendous L.A. audition episode, American Idol made up for lost time Wednesday night. Wow, we met a slew of talented singers. For more on show-ender, James Durbin, go here. Among the highlights: Julie Zorilla: She told the of how her family fled their mountain-top home in Colombia in...

Meet James Durbin; Idol’s next Adam Lambert?

So, we met a rocker with a heart-wrenching backstory Wednesday night. James Durbin, 21, of Santa Cruz, lost his bass guitar-playing dad to a drug overdose when he was 9, before he ever really knew him. He has strugged with Tourette syndrome and Asperger’s, a high-functioning form of...

American Idol auditions in San Francisco

Tonight apparently marks the final audition episode for American Idol season 10. There’s good and bad in that. Good because, after tonight, we can stop wasting our time watching crazies who have no chance at the season 10 crown. Everyone had enough comic relief after the L.A. episode? Thought...

Proof that Idol’s L.A. episode could have been better

I think Nigel Lythgoe fibbed to us a little. Apparently reacting to the disdain fans showed over American Idol’s Los Angeles audition episode, he tweeted Thursday night: “I agree LA auditions were in general awful. A lot made me laugh. It just shows you never can tell where talent will...

American Idol wastes its time and ours in L.A.

Perhaps someone enjoyed watching Matthew Scott Frankel pretend to be a rapper tonight. Perhaps someone enjoyed watching Tynisha Roches snarl and growl and chase Randy around the American Idol set with a mike. Perhaps a few people even enjoyed that ending segment, featuring Cooper Robinson from deep...

American Idol auditions in Los Angeles

More than once this season, Jennifer Lopez has said she hates crushing the dream of an aspiring singer. Heck, she repeated it Wednesday, when the judges appeared on Oprah. But this is ridiculous. I’m beginning to think the judges gave golden tickets to half the singing population between the...

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