AltWeeklies Wire
'Swingtown' is Both Timid and Titillatingnew
With the sexual revolution in full swing, so to speak, the show's adventurous suburbanites explore such racy activities as group sex and partner-swapping, while their teenage kids do some experimenting of their own.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
06-05-2008 |
TV
We Don't Get 'Lost,' But We Won't Stop Watchingnew
The evolving, labyrinthine layers of "Lost's" plot that is Lost have finally, in season four, made theorizing as futile a practice as sending Lindsay Lohan to rehab or voting in Florida.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
06-04-2008 |
TV
Disney Channel Fits Colleyville's Demi Lovato For A Glass Slippernew
She's now lined up to be the next Hannah Montana.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
06-03-2008 |
TV
Confessions of an Internet TV Junkienew
Competitive reality shows, sitcoms, Wristcutters: A Love Story -- I need them all.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
06-03-2008 |
Commentary
An Open Letter to Gordon Ramsaynew
I tried, Chef, I really did, and on numerous occasions -- but I just cannot sit through an entire episode of Hell's Kitchen. Invariably, after or during one of your obscene and belittling rants, I tell you to shut the fuck up, consciously using one of your favorite expletives.
Spanish-Language TV: Perverse and Profoundnew
La Cosa Nostra claims a half-million mostly young and middle-age viewers. It can be incomprehensible, reprehensible, raunchy, wacky, and, at times, insightful. There are sketches about old folks having sex, racial jokes, glimpses of bestiality, digs at religion, and -- let's not forget -- a stripper and a pole.
Miami New Times |
Janine Zeitlin |
06-02-2008 |
TV
Millions of Americans Remain Confused and Misinformed About Coming Digital-TV Transitionnew
On February 17, 2009, the United States launches an ambitious digital-TV transition, requiring all full-power broadcast stations to scrap their analog transmissions in favor of digital-only signals. Yet surveys indicate that the American populace is thoroughly confused about the change.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
05-21-2008 |
TV
Burlington Telecom to Dump Al Jazeeranew
Community outcry has forced Burlington Telecom to pull the Arab news network's English-language broadcast from its programming.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
05-12-2008 |
Media
10 Years of Nothing
It's been a decade since the last new episode of Seinfeld. Yet we're still watching.
Behind the Scenes of 'Saturday Night Live' with Comedy Writer Bryan Tuckernew
The unseen workings of SNL are controlled chaos, the result of painstaking detail and hours of writing and rewriting. For Tucker, the funny white kid from the Virginia suburbs with a knack for riffing on hip-hop culture, it's the pinnacle.
Style Weekly |
Brent Baldwin |
04-30-2008 |
TV
Moving 'Lost' From TV to Video Gamenew
The makers of Lost: Via Domus wisely chose to have players assume characters who aren't part of the TV show, rather than any of the known survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. You do, however, interact with Jack, Kate, Locke, Sawyer, Hurley, and the others you've come to know.
The Georgia Straight |
Blaine Kyllo |
04-21-2008 |
Video Games
'The Big 4-0' Isn't Quite 'My Super Sweet 16' for the Middle-Agednew
Perhaps there's more distasteful wallowing to come, but at least in its first episode, 4-0 is wholesome and bland.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
04-18-2008 |
TV
Measuring the Impact of Media Violencenew
A debate about the impact of media violence has raged for decades. In spite of a large body of research, the causal link between media violence and behavior has often been questioned.
The Georgia Straight |
Craig Takeuchi |
04-14-2008 |
Movies
Assy McGee is the Butt of the Jokenew
Clambake Animation has created one of the more unique characters ever to waddle across a television screen -- a walking, talking pair of heinie cheeks named Assy McGee.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
04-10-2008 |
TV
'Battlestar Galactica' Goes for the Godnew
As the series gears up for its conclusion, it's becoming more contemplative, agonizing over how there can be faith without tests of that faith, and thus how real prophets can exist without fake ones -- how humans, tortured beasts that we are, can have certainty in anything without uncertainty about most everything else.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
04-09-2008 |
TV
