By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Last week, the America’s Got Talent: Season 11 live shows began at their new home: The Dolby Theatre. We also saw the first deadlock of the season, when Simon, Heidi, Mel B and Howie could not make up their minds on advancing Deadly Games or Hara into the Semi-Finals. The decision […]
A Word from the Publisher: Jake’s Take Turns 5!
August 2, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Five years ago, I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with Bachelor’s of Science in broadcast journalism. While it was one of the highlights of my life, I graduated at the height of the Great Recession. Finding a job in the media field was like searching for a minuscule […]
Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews: Week of July 29, 2016
July 29, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Welcome to another exciting edition of Jake’s Take’s New Music Reviews! Let’s get this party started! The Definition of by Fantasia One of my favorite R&B/Soul artists to have come from the recently departed American Idol was Fantasia Barrino. Every time she hit the Idol stage, Fantasia told a story and […]
Mat Franco & Paul Zerdin return home as “AGT: Season 11” reveals its first results!
July 27, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Last night, the America’s Got Talent: Season 11 live shows began at their new home: The Dolby Theatre. Several acts (Hara, Jon Dorenbos, Jayna Brown, Musicality Vocal Group, Deadly Games, and Laura Bretan) “shifted into turbo” and delivered some of the most exciting performances from this season. Other acts such as […]
“AGT: Season 11” Goes Live!
July 26, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com This is it! After countless auditions and four celebrity-packed episodes of Judge Cuts, we are now down to 36 acts. In addition to the 9 Golden Buzzer acts, who received automatic golden tickets to the Season 11 party, 24 acts were invited by judges Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Mel B, and […]
Jake’s Take at the Movies: Batman: The Killing Joke (2016 film)
July 26, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man to lunacy. That’s how far the world is where I am. Just one bad day.”- The Joker, The Killing Joke (1988) The Clown Prince of Crime uttered that offensive line to his arch-rival, Batman, in Alan Moore and Brian […]
Jake’s Take: “America’s Got Talent: Season 11” Top 10 Challenge
July 24, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Last week, I was issued a challenge by my friend and award-winning marketing maven Becky Wilson. Both of us are huge fans of the NBC talent competition series: America’s Got Talent! Because of our passion for the show, Becky challenged me to pick out my Top 10 favorite acts from this […]
Jake’s Take: the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con (Saturday edition)
July 23, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Ladies & gentlemen, start your engines! Today is the most action-packed day of the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con! Without further ado, here are the panels you should definitely check out: 10 AM Once Upon A Time panel (Ballroom 20) The Evil Queen is back! Mr. Hyde is in control of Storybrooke! […]
Jake’s Take: San Diego Comic-Con 2016 (Friday Edition)
July 22, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com To quote YouTube singer Rebecca Black: (Singing voice): “It’s Friday! Friday! It’s Friday, Friday Gotta get down on Friday Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday Gettin’ down on Friday Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend” (End of singing voice) It’s Day Two of the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con! […]
Jake’s Take: 2016 San Diego Comic-Con (Thursday edition)
July 21, 2016 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com (Singing voice) “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” The 2016 San Diego Comic-Con is this weekend, and thousands of pop culture aficionados are about ready to dive into the pop culture pool! As always, Jake’s Take offers every San Diego Comic-Con attendee (and wannabe attendees) a guide to the […]
