Debating the YouTube Debate
Even if you haven't caught any of the CNN/YouTube presidential debates, the image of the snowman asking Democratic nominees about global warming is guaranteed to be a pop culture fixture for many years to come. Whether you think it trivialized ...

No more Numa Numa?
Remember the chubby adolescent sitting at his computer desk, dancing his little heart out to some weird German song? (Oh, come on people, it was only back in 2004). Commonly referred to as the Numa Numa Dance, the homemade video ...

My MTV Boycott
That's it, I'm done with them. I thought I'd stick it out for a little while longer, but I just simply can't take it any more. I am boycotting MTV. I'm pretty sure the last straw for me came in ...

I don't think we're in tutus anymore, Toto
So last night I went to go see Ailey II at the Welder Center and all I can say is "Wow!" (well, that and is the third guy from the left during the last dance single? Because Wow!, again). It's ...

What ever happened to a nice cup of joe?
Just what the world needed. Drunk yet wide awake teenagers. Have you heard this one yet? The company that makes Rockstar has pulled their alcoholic version of the popular energy drink, Rockstar 21, off the shelves after both kids and ...

More Reality TV in store? Nooooo...
Say it ain't so, TV writers, say it ain't so. With the recent TV writers strike, insiders and experts are expecting another new influx of reality TV shows. With minimal budgets and no need for writers, it looks like if ...

Why, next thing they'll be giving them the vote!
Although this blog is all about what's new in pop culture, every once in awhile it is pertinent to go back to the past just to see how far we've come. And today, one Advocate reader showed me a past ...

Radiohead's little experiment...
Whudda thunk it, folks? If you give people the option of either paying for something or getting it for free, most people will chose to (...wait for it...wait for it...) take it for free. I know! I'm just as shocked ...

Generation Quiet?
As a 20-something in the news industry, I've seen my fair share of older, supposedly wiser veterans in the business take a stab at my generation. They write their op-eds and columns about how what we, collectively as a group, ...

National Novel Writing Month kicks off!
Much to my chagrin, it seems no one wants to join me in the quest to write a novel in a month, except for sports writer Billy Mau and my boyfriend Ryan "Muffin" Huddle. But as they say, the book ...