It’s ninety minutes before Kevin Pereira, co-host of Attack of the Show, has to be live on air and he’s just been handed an overly accented t-shirt to wear. “I’m actually sending a text message to our wardrobe to please get me a shirt without so many metal studs on it,” he says with a laugh, “this is my life. This is what I do.” Actually, what he, co-host Olivia Munn, and the rest of the Attack of the Show crew do is prove on a nightly basis that geeks and nerds have flipped the script and are now the new “cool.”

One might think an actor who’s been a part of blockbusters such as The Lion King, Drumline and ATL would have seen it all when it comes to Hollywood. The current climate of the industry, however, is something that is a new phenomenon even for Jason. Rather than lament the situation Weaver focused on some of his other loves as he hit the recording studio with his longtime girlfriend Kelly Sheehan and started taking classes at Le Cordon Bleu, a culinary school in Los Angeles. Although there might be hard times everywhere, including Hollywood, the good news for Weaver is he’s honed so many talents that he could act in a movie, write and sing the soundtrack, and cater the premier.

Unless you've been locked in a closet your entire life, you definitely know who Marc Ecko is. He's the guy who's clothes everyone but the Amish are wearing. The streets are ruled by Ecko Unltd., the skate parks ravaged by Zoo York, and all the bums on my block have Avirex jackets. Ecko was once just a kid from Lakewood, NJ, admittedly fat, white and Jewish—not the most likely contender for the fashion world's heavyweight division. But people are often shaped by their surroundings. “I was exposed to things in the 80s that were really unique,” he says, “the paradigm of the skate culture emerging, hip-hop emerging...Lakewood had a strong ethnic cross section that made it very unique to that part of the state.”

“Sometimes you choose a thing but sometimes a thing chooses you. That was me with my guitar playing,” Tom Morello admits. And perhaps the same can be said for his recent switch to the folkier side of music with The Fabled City, his second solo release. Known primarily for his rock awesomeness via Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, it seems pretty strange that he would put down the electric and pick up the acoustic. Or on second thought, maybe it isn’t.