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Grease is The Word, Sort Of
Michelle: Okay, so we can’t really explain it, and I, for one, used to hate it, but Amy and I are addicted to Grease 2. Amy: Oh, but I loved it from the first moment I saw it, I did.…
Smallville: And So It Begins
The first two episodes of Smallville’s second season are like night and day, two hours of television joined together by little more than a cast of characters and a title sequence. “Vortex” serves as part two of last-season’s cliffhanger, “Tempest.”…
No, YOU Stick It
In the last decade, there have been few teen-targeted films that were truly brilliant. Kids these days (she said, sounding like somebody’s grandfather) have not had the honor of growing up with a John Hughes, someone who so thoroughly got…
Instant Pop Classic
I can tell from the first listen what kind of relationship I will have with a CD. One of two things happens: I will instantly bond with the album, or I will remain uncommitted until several more listens – after…
Hard Candy: New Frontier
Written by Nicole Even with the sweetener, there’s no mistaking the trademark soulful, deeply personal songs by Adam Duritz on Hard Candy, the fourth studio album from Counting Crows. If taking a bite of this doesn’t hurt your teeth, or…
Ok, Get Set, Go
The first time I’d ever heard of Ok Go, they were on stage with the ‘This American Life’ tour at the Town Hall in New York City. Ira Glass deemed them his favorite boy band and mentioned that they were…
Buffy: Less Than Gay?
Dead Lesbian Cliché? In spring 2002, the Internet was all aflutter with the rumor that Amber Benson’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer character, Tara Maclay, was to be killed off on the series. Now, for those of you who don’t follow…
Popular: Cancel Our Subscription
Written by Brad, Amy Brad: Several weeks ago, I sat in horror during the season/series finale of Popular. The producers either wanted to screw everyone who watched the show, or they didn’t expect it to be canceled at the end…
Orange Crush
Orange County officially opened this weekend, but I actually saw it a couple of months ago at a test screening in San Francisco. Even though I am over the target age for the movie (MTV films wanted everyone in the…
Hot Gossip
Within the past couple of years, there has been a huge influx of indie bands that have had the limelight thrust upon them by various media outlets. Television of late has seemed to jump on the bandwagon more than usual,…
Buffy: Normal Again?
I am intrigued. Not by the Anya/Xander storyline. Not by Willow. Or Dawn or Xander. By Buffy. I’m actually intrigued by Buffy. I know, I know, I just wrote her off! However, if the end of “Normal Again” is ever…
Dawson’s Creek Trickles Out
So, the gurls asked me to do a little recap on Season Six for you wonderful readers out there, a little companion piece to the wrap up I did on the first five. This was, originally, not a good plan,…
Felicity: A New Version of You
I would like to take the last episode of Felicity and force all television producers and writers to watch it as soon as there is even a twinkle of a thought of doing a clip show. It seems as if…
A Quickie with Author Alison Pace
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…
Clerks II
I am, unabashedly, a trilogy geek. But unlike those who often choose between Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, my trilogy of obsession has always been the View Askew Jersey trilogy – Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy. My great…
Give the Gift of Music!
So you have a couple of days until Christmas, the malls are almost reaching capacity, unlike your patience that has already hit capacity level. You are stuck for gift ideas, what do you do. What do you do? You hit…
Joss's World
If you were a new or casual viewer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy does a nice job of recapping Joss’s screenwriting career and his intention to make BtVS into something more than its big-screen…
Lily Allen Knocks ‘Em Out
Thank goodness for MySpace, without which Lily Allen would probably be an obscure struggling artist. Lucky for her, the constant in-your-face, every-time-you-sign-on promotion technique that Myspace uses has brought her from obscurity to a having a number one single on…
Downton Abbey: A History Lesson Cleverly Disguised as a Soap Opera
Sometime back in the fall of 2011, Downton Abbey happened. I don’t mean that the show premiered; it actually premiered in the US in the fall of 2010. But sometime back in October or November, what were little whispers about…
Roswell: Welcome to the Cult of Insanity
Fandom. What starts it? What defines it? What causes it to thrive, to grow, to take on a life of its own? And why, oh why, did it spawn the morass of insanity known to us as ‘shippers? “‘Shipper” is…