Kate Todd, 16, portrays Radio Free Roscoe’s girl in the middle. Her character Lily was last seen fighting her feelings for two boys – her longtime friend Ray versus her new pal Travis – and her choice is the topic…

For someone who’s only been a professional actor for the last four years, Alexis Dziena has racked up a pretty impressive list of credits. She’s worked alongside Bill Murray and Jim Jarmusch in Broken Flowers, she’s improvised with Amy Sedaris…

Chris Lowell joined the third season of Veronica Mars amidst a sea of speculation about his character, Stosh Piznarski. Would Piz be another bump in the road to ultimate bliss for fan-favorites Veronica and Logan? How long would it take…

Courtney Smith, author of the just-released Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time, and I go back to the days of when PopGurls was a small twinkle of a notion. In our time…

MTV’s Awkward. captured my heart from the first episode. The story is about Jenna, a high school wallflower who is suddenly thrust into the spotlight when an accident is incorrectly revealed as a suicide attempt. Jenna becomes “that girl” –…

Rachel Melvin rivals her screen character, Days of Our Lives’ Chelsea Benson, when it comes to car accidents — although luckily no one has died in her minor fender benders. That’s unlike her current storyline on Days, which had Chelsea…

Caroline Dhavernas was first introduced to U.S. television viewers through FOX’s short-lived series Wonderfalls, but she’s got quite the following in her native Canada (“like Britney Spears,” says co-star Katie Finneran, much to Caroline’s dismay). While the network cancelled the…

You hit Television Without Pity for biting TV recaps. You scour over Tomato Nation for witty and smart essays – both irreverant and touching. Sars has a knack for writing bits and pieces of her life so well that you…

Nate Corddry walks into a coffee shop in New York, and no one pays him any attention until he mentions The Daily Show halfway through our conversation. Wearing a Brooklyn hoodie and speaking in a soft, thoughtful tone, he could…

Even if you don’t immediately recognize the name Julie Benz, you’ve probably seen her: In her recurring roles as the villainous vampire Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and as Kathleen Topoloski, the Dana Scully of Roswell; in…

Christopher Marquette is only 19, but he’s already amassed a résumé which lists an impressive combination of theater, television and film. But it was in 2003 that he became more prominent in the public eye with a lead in Freddy…

James Gunn is a very busy man. He’s pimping out PG-Porn on Spike and tonight, Scream Queens, his new show on VH1 premieres. This time, the Slither director takes on the role of judge as ten women compete for a…

Having Star Trek: Voyager, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls and Heroes on his resume, Bryan Fuller’s work certainly does not dwell in the mundane. He has written for grim reapers, nagging inanimate objects and those with supernatural powers. But his own…

Rex Lee had a lot of experience to drawn on for his role as Lloyd, Ari Gold’s long-suffering assistant on Entourage. As a former assistant himself — to casting directors, of course — he understands what it takes to keep…

Not one of them is old enough to buy their own beer yet, but the three charming girls who make up the Los Angeles-based band The Like – Tennessee Thomas, Charlotte Froom and Z Berg – have already opened up…

Ben Clark, frontman for the Seattle band The Lashes, has been called the “best interview ever” by the folks promoting The Lashes first album Get It. It is perhaps pressure to live up to that title that he answers his…

To say that Davy Rothbart is a writer is like saying that Paul Newman is an actor. Both statements are true, but for-in Mr. Newman’s case — a guy who also directs, has a culinary empire, and in his spare…

Stacey Farber is 16, rapidly approaching 17 (her birthday is August 25), but is as articulate as someone twice her age. Her character on Degrassi: The Next Generation, Ellie Nash, has been through the ups and downs of a typical…

Written by Quinn Everyone from Sedaka to the Partridges to the Carpenters has sung “breaking up is hard to do.” For some, getting back together is sweeter that the first union. While Giant Drag’s twosome of Annie Hardy (vocals, guitar)…

The Crane Wife is The Decemberists fourth album, but their first with a major label, and their most commercially successful to date. With songs about dead Civil War soldiers, dead girlfriends, a murderous gang of psychopaths and a dude who…

Sara Zarr knocked it out of the park with her first young adult novel, Story of a Girl, in 2007 – it got picked as a National Book Award Finalist. Her lovely and touching second novel, Sweethearts, came out in…

I picked up If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend on a whim last year when I was in the midst of a “I’m so over Chick Lit” snit, and loved it. Its author, Alison Pace, just published her second novel…

Written by Danielle LA-based Indie rock quartet Silversun Pickups are starting to make some major waves with the release of their album Carnavas on Dangerbird Records. Their sound teeters somewhere between stripped down and melodic to beating-down-your-doors loud and aggressive,…