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Fan Event Stake Out
A week and a half away from the election I, at long last, managed to get myself to a political fundraiser. This wasn’t your typical pay-for-your-high-priced-ticket-to-schmooze-with-the-local-bigwigs-over-Chardonnay-and-stuffed-mushrooms affair. Nope, this was…
Riddlin’ Kids: Stop the World
Written by Becka A recent article in Alternative Press magazine focuses on Simple Plan’s knack for not only creating chart topping pop-punk, but also America’s desire to hate them for…
Buffy’s Slayerettes Grow Up
Written by Melynee, Amanda My life got real busy all of a sudden, and I started working on my notes for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer recaps, and I realized…
PopGurls Guide to Hello, Bollywood!
Pleased to be making your Bollywood acquaintance. First, let’s define the term “Bollywood.” Clearly referencing the heart of the American (or “Amrikan”) film industry, “Bollywood” comes from the “B” in…
Buffy: Drink Up, Friends
Written by Michelle, Amy, Melynee and Kristen After a group-viewing of the hideous, craptastic Xander/Anya wedding, we realized that we’d be hard-pressed to make it through yet another episode of…
SatC: No Sex For Me
I’ve been led to believe that my “Sassy Woman of the 21st Century” card was revoked the day I decided not to watch the pilot – or any subsequent episode…
Modern Music Tease
One of my managers is as obsessive about music as I am. However, he is also nearing 40 and was a club DJ in the 80s, so he has become…
No-No-Notorious
The Notorious Bettie Page moves along like a really good PBS special sans droning narrator, all grainy black and white film interspersed with muddy Technicolor. With little fanfare, the film…
SNL: We're Really Going To Miss You
The rumors of Saturday Night Live facing the departure of their biggest stars have been flying for a few months now, so fans of the show tuned in with already-heavy…
Smallville: Instructions for Misuse
The thing about watching Smallville is, in the Great Big Scheme of Things, we know how the story ends. Therefore, the fun is all in the getting there. Why does…
Let’s Go Team!
The Go! Team Great American Music Hall San Francisco April 27, 2006 Let me say right off the bat and for the record that The Go! Team live is just…
True Confessions
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is either one of the slowest-paced movies in recent history, or it proves that all those studies about the shortening of the American attention span…
Moore, Please
Mandy Moore, despite her onetime status as a blond, has never marched to the same drummer as her teen pop princess contemporaries. She’s never had a video that required editing…
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…
Liberation in a G-String
Yesterday I was watching this old special hosted by Gene Kelly that I had TiVo’d, called That’s Dancing. In it, he narrates a series of clips about dancing on film,…
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…
Read This
Rather than list every single book I’ve read since the last update, as there are many and not all were extremely interesting or worth my time, not to mention yours,…
Buffy: The Point of No Return
*this was written before the viewing of “Tabula Rasa.” At times, I appreciate that the entire cast and crew of Buffy are willing to do things that are daring and…
Who’s Your Ultimate Lost Guy?
The hit television series Lost is a bit like a bag of Hershey’s miniatures — there’s a little something for everyone. At least in terms of boys. Whether you’re into…
View From a Hill
I’ve been to Indigo Girls concerts in four different states, and seen them in all sorts of venues – everything from small clubs to performing arts halls to a college…