The American Idol Summer Tour will make four stops in California for Season 12 Top 11 finalists, and the closest to Santa Rosa will be Oakland. The following dates are set for California stops: Ontario (July 13), Oakland (July 14), Sacramento (July 22), L.A. (July 23). Here is the complete [...]

As we head to Thursday’s announcement of Season 12’s two finalists, here are some Idol tidbits that just might interest you… Season 9 runnerup Crystal Bowersox and her husband of 2½ years, Brian Walker, are divorcing. Crystal, if you will recall, broke up with her longtime boyfriend while on the [...]

American Idol eliminated finalist Amber Holcomb held her final press conference call last Friday. Here is what she had to say: How do you see yourself fitting into the pop world. Will you need a harder edge to your style? “Definitely not! I feel like my style, personally, it changes, depending [...]

Surprise! NOT! Granted, assuming that American Idol voting is on the up-and-up, there isn’t a thing the show can do for “shock” value with the results. But part of the suspense of any show is the “surprise” announcement of something or other. Therein is the problem Idol is facing as [...]

Maybe Dorothy Shackleford, mom of “The Voice” judge Blake Shelton, has it right. She recently tweeted: “Nicki (Minaj) makes me throw up.” Wednesday’s American Idol rendition, which featured the Final Four singing twice (a 2013 song and a standard), didn’t change much of anything. Since no one was eliminated a [...]

Whoa doctor! You can hang a star on that one! While any baseball fan knows who utters that phrase (one Padres’ announcer Jerry Coleman), this is a post that has nothing to do with baseball but everything to do with “Whoa doctor!” The latest rumor in IdolVille is that Jennifer [...]

If you are paying attention, Idol seems to scraping the bottom of the barrel on all fronts. Here, take a look... To garner viewer interest as ratings dip below the Mendoza line, Thursday night no one was eliminated after the high drama of announcing that Candice and Amber were in [...]

Here are four words to live by after Wednesday’s American Idol show: “Super Special Surprise Twist!” That is what the show’s host, Ryan Seacrest, said was coming Thursday night. Guess here is that they won’t eliminate anyone. For starters, they screwed up the “save” concept by A) not saving anyone [...]

Before we go any further with this (and, by the way, whatever happened to the “save”? Maybe they are hanging on to it for the show itself!) , here are predictions of the final order of finish: 4 – Amber Holcomb: She was a throw-in for the Top 10 in [...]

  As we head to the all-girls finish line of Season 12 here are some other Idol tidbits involving past participants: Former Chula Vista resident (she now lives in L.A.) Jessica Sanchez will make her Glee debut this week on a “Lights Out” episode. She will act and sing under the [...]