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5 November 2009 6:08 AM, PST | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

Katy Perry hosts Green Day, Shakira, Jonas Brothers and more at Berlin's O2 Arena.

By Youyoung Lee

Beyoncé accepts an award at the EMAs

Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ Getty Images

Bowler caps, bow ties, corsets, crystals, "boobie thingies" — no, these are not the remnants of last weekend's Halloween rave but rather the accoutrements returning host Katy Perry flounced around in at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards. Together with the theme "Katy Kat Club," the Sally Bowles-inspired garb was only appropriate as the 16th annual EMAs returned to its inaugural location of Berlin, just days before the 20th anniversary of when the Berlin wall came tumbling down.

Jay-z, Beyoncé, U2, Tokio Hotel, Leona Lewis, David Hasselhoff, Juliette Lewis, Shakira, the Jonas Brothers and Tokio Hotel were just some of the stars that turned up on the red carpet to commence the largest awards show in MTV Europe's history. A staggering 17,000 audience »

27 September 2009 5:55 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

By Alan Kelly

Alexandra Sokoloff is a screen-writer well established in California writing novel adaptations (like the thriller Cold Kisses) for various Hollywood studios like Sony, Miramax and Disney. A graduate of Uc Berkeley where she majored in theatre and minored in just about everything else. Sokoloff has had three extremely well-received novels published: The Harrowing, The Price and The Unseen and is collaborating on a vampire trilogy with Heather Graham and Deborah Leblanc, which is due out next year...

Sokoloff explores themes of loss, loneliness, things that may be at the edge of our awareness or merely manufactured traumas created by the unnerving worlds her characters inhabit, plunging her readers into terrifying occult realms. Her novels are slices of supernatural realism which are fast, punchy, clever and chock-full of creepy intrigue.

Structure seems very important to you. Do you map your novels out before beginning; I ask this because »

- Superheidi

2 articles from 2009