Hey, did you guys hear that Tupac played Coachella this past weekend?
No this isn’t some lame ass April Fool’s joke. It’s TRUE!
Dr. Dre and company literally resurrected the late, Tupac Shakur (as a hologram) to put on one hell of a show! In 1996, when the rapper was killed, many people found it [...]

TheHomeGrownZine.com recently took a moment to sit down with one of our favorite “home grown” sites and it’s creator Wes Gilliam. Wes has founded a website known as WeAreTheUpstate.com which has quickly become a fan favorite around the South East.
In your own words, what is “We Are the Upstate”? (What are you guys all [...]

Tonight’s Mega Millions jackpot is said to be worth an estimated $640 Million dollars and the largest jackpot everup for grabs. Stores everywhere are filling up with patrons all hoping to cash in on their luck.
For most of us, $640M is an incomprehensible number, so let me try to put it in perspective for you:
You [...]

For those of you who don’t know, or don’t understand what the fuss is about Trayvon Martin, let me give you some minor background here. Trayvon Martin, aged 17, his route took him through a “non-black” neighborhood on his way home from a local store where he had purchased a bag of skittles and [...]

I never thought I’d say this, but I think Madonna is losing her touch. After hits like “Holiday”, “Borderline”, “Crazy for You”, and even more recently “Die Another Day”, songs like “Superstar” on the new MDNA album don’t cut it for me, which is very disappointing, because I do consider myself to be [...]

Controversial “Shock Jock” Rush Limbaugh recently made the news by once again putting his foot in his mouth. Although Limbaugh has normally been able to back pedal his way out of it, he may have finally gone too far this time.
Rush Limbaugh has made a career out of being unapologetic and at [...]

In the middle of the night, while groups of children sleep, the self-proclaimed leader of the L.R.A. (Lords Resistance Army), Joseph Kony, orders his rebel army of children and young men to ascend on campsites and abduct even more children by force. Many have become mutilated as these armies force the boys to become soldiers [...]

Many of you may have noticed the sudden explosion, not coming from the sun, but rather, coming from Facebook as photos of brooms, eerily standing on their own have been falsely recorded as an “after effect” of the recent solar storms. During all the hubbub, what you may not have noticed, however, was the “explosion” [...]

As the weather warms up, it’s about that time to welcome visitors to our “Grand Strand”.
With attractions like the Palace, Wild Water and Wheels, Broadway at the Beach, the thousands of restaurants, and hundreds of outlet style shops, it’s easy to understand why hundreds of thousands of tourists will flock to our 60 miles of [...]

The Magnetic Fields will make their first-ever appearance at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on March 15 as the headliners for NPR’s Live From the Parish day party. They will also perform at their official SXSW showcase at ACL Live on March 16. The band will be celebrating the release of Love at [...]
