The Most Memorable American Idol Finale Performances of All-Time

By: Jacob Elyachar Since the show’s humble beginnings back in 2002, American Idol’s season finales have always featured incredible surprise guests and astonishing parings between a contestant and a music legend.    This blog post revisits some of these best performances and hopes that American Idol: Season 11 delivers another spectacular finale. Elliott Yamin and Mary […]

The Top 10 Best Peformancs from American Idol Season 11, Part Two

By: Jacob Elyachar Stop! If you have not read part one of this two-part series, click on the link before you read this article: https://www.jakes-take.com/2012/05/21/the-top-10-best-performances-from-american-idol-season-11-part-one/ The American Idol finale is where dreams are realized and superstars are born.  Tonight, Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips will perform three songs: their favorite performance of the season, Idol […]

The Top 10 Best Performances from American Idol Season 11, Part One

By: Jacob Elyachar Tomorrow night, Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez will perform their final three songs on the American Idol finale which will be filmed at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live. While they are prepping for one of the biggest nights in their lives, jacobelyacharjournalist.com has prepared a two-part series highlighting the 10 best […]

Jacob’s Travels….The Grand Canyon and Sedona, Arizona

By: Jacob Elyachar I want to apologize to my regular viewers for not posting until now.  The reason why you have not seen a new post since May 12 is that I have been on vacation with my brother, Aaron.   For four days, we were at the Grand Canyon and Sedona, Arizona.     These four days […]

The Top 10 Performances from The Voice’s Second Season-Part One

By: Jacob Elyachar Tonight is part one of the Voice’s season finale.   There have been incredible performances from this season but if fans could pick 10, they would have a tough time picking them out.    So, jacobelyacharjournalist.com has picked the 10 best performances from some of this year’s outstanding contestants in a two-part series that […]

Jacob’s Eye On…The Voice’s Final Four

By: Jacob Elyachar After countless blind auditions, battle rounds and live performances, Juliet Simms, Jermaine Paul, Chris Mann and Tony Lucca are the last singers standing.  Tomorrow night, they will perform two songs: one final solo and one with their coach. As always, jacobelyacharjournalist.com has analyzed which of these four remaining singers have a chance […]

A Tribute to Mike Wallace (1918-2012)

By: Jacob Elyachar   The journalism world has lost one of its’ greats: Mike Wallace.    The iconic 60 Minutes correspondent was known as one of the most ferocious reporters in the industry. Over his multi-decade career, he has interviewed thousands of newsmakers including former heads of states in multiple countries, crooks and artistic legends.   This […]

Jacob’s Eye On…The Voice Season Two’s Top 16

  By: Jacob Elyachar   Over on my Examiner.com page, I have been recapping this season of the Voice.   Now that the competition has hit the quarterfinals round, I have analyzed which teams are the strongest and the weakest going forward in the remaining parts of the season.   The Strongest: TEAM CHRISTINA   Team […]

Jacob Interviews…Internet host Anthony Hull

  By: Jacob Elyachar   Anthony Hull is one of the most prominent new faces in online entertainment.    He perfectly juggles numerous projects that include interviews with rising talent like Mike Posner, Chiddy Bang and Asher Roth, filming his web series Ant’s World and his first full-length documentary: The Turnaround and being one of the […]

Jacob Interviews…The Get Published Coach-Robin Colucci Hoffman, Part Two

By: Jacob Elyachar   Part two of my interviews with Robin Colucci Hoffman focuses on how she defines success; what she considers the difference between a hit book and a flop and also myths about the publishing industry. Jacob Elyachar: Could you describe the difference between writing a huge success versus writing a huge flop? […]

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