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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…
Things I Never Stopped Loving from The 90s – The Jessica Edition
1. Juliana Hatfield My first introduction to Juliana Hatfield came from MTV’s Sunday night alternative video show, 120 Minutes (another favorite below). They would always show her video for “What A Life” and “My Sister.” I immediately ran out to…
Department Store Girl
Having been selected by Amy to review Department Store Girl, the latest album release by The Rosenbergs, I wasn’t certain of a. who they were or b. why she had asked me to do it (other than, perhaps, my long-winded…
Little Chicks, Lots of Dixie
Time has changed Natalie Maines. The once-perky lead singer for the Dixie Chicks has perhaps grown up, or been affected by motherhood, or been dulled slightly by controversy. Whatever it is, it makes for a completely different concert-going experience. On…
History in the Making?
When magazines talk about “beach” or “summer” reading, they usually mean those lovely, disposable books that are like candy for your brain: Quick-paced, breezily-plotted novels that keep you wondering what will happen next, but not to the extent that you…
Pop Music Is One Big SNL Sketch These Days
“Deep House Dish” is one of Saturday Night Live’s more popular recurring sketches of the past few years. When it debuted in 2005, it was an absurd send-up of house, techno, and Euro-pop music that bore little resemblance to America’s…
Soul Punx Unite
Written by P. E. Nelson “SOUL PUNX UNITE,” reads the legend on the illustration on the cover of this disc – an apt clue to what lies in store on Kish Kash, the third installment from the dynamic duo of…
Smallville: With Friends Like Lex…
This morning at an airport newsstand I picked up a copy of Movieline with Sarah Michelle Gellar on the cover. It was more habit than anything because I care even less about SMG than her now-crappy show. While flipping through…
Trading Spaces in 40 Days
From the first phone call to taping b-roll footage, below is Erin’s first-person account of auditioning and landing a spot on the TLC show Trading Spaces. Cast of Characters (in order of appearance) Erin: Diary author and flirtatious helper #1…
Juliana Hatfield in Exile
Juliana Hatfield was always the girl I thought would have beat up Liz Phair at summer camp, shown her a really wicked guitar riff, and then taught her how to inhale. While Liz started off on the right foot as…
Fourth Comings
Written by Hannah All right, let’s get the big spoiler out of the way first. Marcus and Jessica don’t end up together. And you know what? I’m glad. That’s right. I’m glad Jessica and Marcus finally broke up. One of…
Fallback Albums: Jessica
The thing about a first impression is that you can only make it once. In my opinion this holds true with bands. I usually find myself going back to albums that really made a lasting impression on me the first…
SatC: The Sex is Almost Over
Flipping through the channels this weekend, I came across a Season Five episode of Sex and the City. For the first time, I realized that I was truly going to miss the show when it’s done this summer. I honestly…
Sonic Youth Rips It Live
Sonic Youth Kool Haus Toronto August 8, 2006 If I recall correctly, for the past couple of tours Sonic Youth has been threatening to call it quits. So every time the band puts out a record and tours my heart…
For Kids Who Read Good
There was a time in my life when I wouldn’t have been caught dead paying money to see a movie like Zoolander (around the same time I wouldn’t have been caught dead listing to pop music, actually). But I remember…
Trading Spaces Revealed
Written by Erin From the crappy catering to the big reveal, below is Erin’s first-person account of taping her episode of the TLC show Trading Spaces. Cast of Characters (in order of appearance) Erin: Diary author and flirtatious helper #1…
Joss, Grant Us the Serenity
If I think back on all the movies I’ve seen in my lifetime, or even just recently, it is hard to imagine that I went in to any of them as conflicted as I was prior to the worldwide premiere…
Chicks or Peeps?
I have a confession to make. I actually got a sneak peak of the Dixie Chicks new album three weeks ago when I was lucky enough to score tickets to a live taping of an NBC special slated to air…
Twang
[Caveat: It is true that Meredith Edwards’ CD, Reach, is the first release from Lance Bass’s management company, Free Lance Entertainment. It is also true that Meredith was one of the opening acts for *NSYNC on the East Coast leg…
Buffy Returns
Is she dead or isn’t she? After a long summer, Buffy jumps ship and finds new life on the UPN. But is her resurrection a triumph or a disaster? The admittedly jaded gurlies (sans Michelle, who was off galavanting in…