Review: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
Deepwater Horizon Suits Hit Courts Across the Gulf States
Prince "Adam Ant!" Charming Returns!
Twitter's @BreakingNews Has Killed the Meaning of "Breaking News"
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Deepwater Horizon Suits Hit Courts Across the Gulf States
Coast Guard News coverage of the Deepwater Horizon explosion The massive oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig now covers an area larger than Rhode Island. It is, in fact already making the Exxon Valdez look like a swirly rainbow puddle under a jalopy in the parking lot. The Deepwater spill menaces fisheries along [...]
Prince “Adam Ant!” Charming Returns!
The often-great UK music website The Quietus has managed to score an amazing exclusive interview with our lost hero, Adam Ant. Most importantly, he’s working on a new album (his first for 15 years), the wonderfully-titled Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter. Even more importantly than that, in the interview [...]
Twitter’s @BreakingNews Has Killed the Meaning of “Breaking News”
The meaning of “breaking news” has probably been on life support at best since the beginning of the 1990s and the first Gulf War, when CNN regularly deployed attention grabbing “BREAKING NEWS” graphics and portentous music to detail nearly every burp and fart of America’s first war with Iraq. While the tweet in the screen [...]
Put A Ring On It On “Real Housewives of NYC”
Another glorious episode of Real Housewives of New York City has come and gone! Last week, new housewife Sonja gets her very own intro line, which is not, as you may have guessed “I like it raw,” but instead an ode to her second favorite thing after sex, money. Or, as Sonja would have it, [...]
Ginger Dead Man: Redhead reacts to MIA
M.I.A. has always made crazy music videos, from the tacky Bollywoodisms of “Jimmy” to the seizure-inducing color crazed “Boyz,” her clips ain’t the type you’ll see on MTV anytime soon. But her hyper violent promo for new track “Born Free,” helmed by Romain Gavras (son of iconoclastic director Costa-Gavras) just might be the most batshit [...]
Twitter Cat Fight Between Spencer Pratt & Perez Hilton
Our two favorite drama queens have the claws out again. Gossip monger Perez Hilton went head to head with Spencer Pratt, former star of MTV’s The Hills and husband of Heidi Montag. The fight started off with the two throwing insults back and forth via tweets, peppered with some Mom jokes here and there. But [...]
Some Kid on the Internet Scooped Gizmodo’s iPhone 4G Bombshell in February
On February 21 this year, a Tennessee kid with the Twitter screen name TUDream (TheUltimateDream) googled “iPhone 4G.” He discovered the image above, which he stated was “a pic uploaded by a chinese tweeter.” TUDream Twitpic’d the image and probably went about his business. Until today, that is, when Gizmodo published the Apple scoop to [...]
Herb Cohen’s Real Housewives Report
Mediaelites’s ongoing attempt to OWN the Real Housewives of New York City recapping franchise continues with the second installment of Herb Cohen’s Reality Report. Mr. Cohen is an expert in negotiation, who’s worked for both the Carter and Reagan administrations, gone toe-to-toe with the Russkies and helped defused numerous hostage situations. Also, he thinks Bettheny [...]
Eyjafjallajökull blows off steam
What’s in a name? Eyjafjallajökull is the Icelandic glacier that erupted yesterday closing the airspace over Great Britain. Who knew the apocalypse would be so hard to spell? By the way, the last time this happened, in 1821, it apparently lasted more than a year. On the plus side, the lines to see Big Ben [...]
“Congratulations” aside, MGMT feeling insecure
MGMT’s second album will be a profound disappointment to any fans – the newer ones to be sure – who bought their debut Oracular Spectacular after being lured in by the beautiful primary-color melodies and warm synths of tracks like “Time to Pretend,” and “Kids.” And this apparently was deliberate. The band’s sound always had [...]
What That Martini Really Says About You
The trailer for “Sex and the City 2″ has hit the web and all the women of New York are once again toasting to Carrie Bradshaw, the fictional character that loves sex, shoes, and martinis. But while Carrie started a new girl power trend of waving our bare left hands in the air as we [...]
Herb Cohen’s Reality Report
Herb Cohen is an expert in negotiation, who’s advised the Departments of State and Justice, the FBI, the CIA and Presidents Carter and Reagan. He helped shape the government’s response to the Iranian Hostage Crisis , the skyjacking of TWA Flight 847 and the seizure of the Achille Lauro. He also played a role in [...]
“Top Chef Masters” Season Two Premiere: No One Takes Anyone Down to Chinatown
The second season of Top Chef Masters – a watered-down version of Top Chef proper meant to keep its audience from defecting to The Food Network between regular seasons – premiered on Wednesday night. Not surprisingly, there were no surprises. My favorite part of this week’s espiode wasn’t on the show at all - it came from Gael Greene’s blog, where she confesses to [...]
Kate Gosselin to Appear in New TLC Show Alone
TV mom Kate Gosselin is still going to bring in the cash with or without ex-Jon Gosselin, announcing that she’s going to start her own TLC series which will now be named “Twist of Kate.” The show will follow Gosselin as she visits the homes of other families, possibly dueling out parenting advice and maybe [...]
Review: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour