MTV

True Story

(Sep 06, 2012) Most of the cast members of Real World RIP CITY What happens when people stop being polite and start getting real in Portland? Wel...

Streaming Liquid

(Apr 02, 2012) MTV’s Liquid Television stands as a reminder of a time when MTV not only defined musical tastes but also cultural and artis...

Music videos hit the silver screen

(Feb 02, 2012) Every single day, a new music video premiere is on TV or the Internet. This model, canonized by MTV and then later transpor...

Baby Girl Rapper

(Jan 31, 2012) On first listen you might hate this drivel. But maybe you give it a second chance, and you listen a little harder to the lyrics o...

Aphex Twin 1996 MTV Interview

(Oct 05, 2011) I think these are the first images ever where I see the face from Come to Daddy and Windowlicker in a video answering an intervie...

Jersey Shore (Italy)

(Jul 28, 2011) Judge me. Judge them… I don’t care. For better and worse,  these are my people; I’m not Italian but I am a Yank...

The New Alternative to Hollywood: British TV

(Apr 25, 2011) What are we seeing? British TV shows are extremely popular on the Scout Network—more popular, it seems, than most American TV s...

America’s Best Dance Crew (Commercial)

(Apr 21, 2011) America’s Best Dance Crew, my favorite reality dance show and one of my favorite television shows in general, is back for i...

Caroline Korneli Is The Young Face of Late Night

(Apr 06, 2011) Caroline started her career very early. By the age of 11 she had already played some minor roles in television productions, and a...

Teenage Dream

(Feb 28, 2011) Cast of the UK series Skins I only fell for the British teen dram-edy Skins just a few weeks ago, but boy I fell hard. It’s eve...

The Burning Desire for Curated Experiences

(Feb 10, 2011) What are we seeing? Finding information is rarely a challenge anymore. The challenge is finding the right information: the most ...

The Vice Guide to Everything

(Jan 03, 2011) I don’t expect to learn anything from MTV, other than the importance of “T-Shirt Time,” so when I saw the comme...

The Genius of Kanye West

(Nov 18, 2010) As of this writing Kanye West’s new album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” has yet to be officially releas...

And The Award For The Most Ridiculous…

(Jul 15, 2010) I love the MTV Movie Awards. I am not a tween, I have not seen Twilight, I do not wear Uggs or Extreme Couture and I do not ow...

PBS to get serious about the arts?

(Apr 30, 2010) There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about PBS’ arts programming recently… read it yourself. I ha...