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If You’re in Springfield, Make Sure to Hit Up the Municipal House of Pancakes

By Jesse Singal - Jan 8th, 2009 at 11:46 am

Via reddit, this hypothetical map of Springfield (which was apparently created seven years ago) is worth checking out, if merely to reminisce about The Simpsons‘…

Gossip Girl Gay Eunuch Watch

By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 7th, 2009 at 10:32 am

Twice now.

If I Had Listened to More Snoop During My Formative Years, This Headline Would Be Cleverer

By Jesse Singal - Dec 14th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

This video of Snoop Dogg helping Martha Stewart prepare mashed potatoes is a few weeks old, but I just caught it on reddit for the…

What Video Game Narratives Can Do

By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 12th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

Like Daniel says here, it is cool that some video games let you choose to be whoever you want, but from a narrative standpoint, I…

Is Gossip Girl Afraid to Go Gay?

By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

I’ve been a pretty long-term fan of Gossip Girl–what other show packs as much into each hour as Josh Schwartz’s totally fake (?) drama about…

Entourage’s Siren Song

By Jesse Singal - Dec 5th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

In his latest ESPN.com column, Bill Simmons spends a paragraph mercilessly–but lovingly–demolishing Entourage, a show I should probably be ashamed to admit that I’m a…

Obsessed: Of Montreal, Milk, and Cyndi Lauper

By Bradley Portnoy - Nov 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Cabinet speculation. It’s like celebrity gossip for policy wonks.
- Dylan Matthews
I recently picked up a copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s newest album, 8…

Dan Savage Blames Old People, Not Black People, for Passing Prop 8

By Kay Steiger - Nov 12th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

Dan Savage appeared on the Colbert Report last night, blaming old people for the passage of Proposition 8 and suggesting gays “soak up” the men…

Watching Sexy TV Gets You Pregnant!

By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Or at least that’s what a study conducted by the RAND Institution claims. Here’s the Washington Post’s summary:
The study, which tracked more than 700…

Rob on Al Jazeera English

By Jesse Singal - Oct 30th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Our very own Rob Anderson was on Al Jazeera English’s “Inside Story” this week to talk about the youth vote. Check it out:

Intepreting the Last Episode of Mad Men

By Daniel Strauss - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm

The last time I wrote about Mad Men the reactions were pretty mixed, in large part because I came to the very optimistic conclusion that…

South Park Leans Right

By Daniel Strauss - Oct 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm

I always wondered where Republicans got their political satire fix. Every Democrat I’ve met goes to Comedy Central’s nightly hour of Stewart and Colbert to…

Jon Stewart May Be the Only Real American Out There

By Jesse Singal - Oct 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Since there’s been a lot of talk this election season of who is and isn’t a “real” American, last night Jon Stewart provided a helpful…

Chill Out, Marky Mark

By Jesse Singal - Oct 17th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Check out Mark Wahlberg’s response to Andy Samberg’s brilliant impression of him:

He’s got to be joking. He can’t actually be this humorless and this…

Mad Men Madness

By Daniel Strauss - Oct 16th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

If you haven’t watched Mad Men yet you need to. Fact.
I admit the premise sounds boring–a show about the day to day lives of…