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Mayoral Candidate John Finan Has The Weirdest Twitter in the Game

The big show may be all about Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota, but there's a third party candidate whose Twitter game is far more entertaining. John Finan is an independent candidate for mayor whose Internet ramblings are, if nothing else, a breath of fresh air in campaign season highly sensitized to t ... More >>

Dissecting the Religiously Charged Subtext of Eminem's "Berzerk" Video

The thin veil between life and death was ripped apart earlier this week with the release of Eminem's music video for "Berzerk." The highly anticipated visual debut for the first single from Marshall Mathers LP 2 (to be released November 5th) features old-school graphics, Detroit, and a pixilated "So ... More >>

Bun B and Shea Serrano's New Rap Coloring Book Is (Not Really) For the Children

Walter White's Mixtape: The Best Songs About Meth

Where there be drugs, there be songs. The Velvets will rhapsodize their smack, Redman will tell you How to Roll A Blunt... musicians just can't help writing odes to the junk that messes 'em up. But where is the Meth songbook? The charts aren't exactly packed with serenades to the meth experience. Ma ... More >>

Twerk-Offs: Rightbloggers Ride Out the Summer With Miley Cyrus

It's hard and tedious, the day-to-day rightblogger work of promoting impeachment, stirring racial enmity, scrambling for a position that can encompass both a desire to bomb Syria and a desire to thwart Obama, and so on. Their traditional relief valve has been culture war -- shaking fists at some r ... More >>

Baauer Should Play "Harlem Shake" Even If He Doesn't Want to

SXSW 2013 was a deeply weird moment for Baauer. He was still an exciting New York producer with a number of highly-bloggable hits, but "Harlem Shake" was becoming an international moment.All of a sudden the guy responsible for the biggest cross-cultural meme of 2013 was spinning at all the random po ... More >>

Breaking Bad's Best Musical Moments

It's no secret: Breaking Bad is easily the best television show currently running, and only The Wire can challenge its all-time supremacy. Creator Vince Gilligan focuses heavily on visual art, such as clever point-of-view cameras and breathtaking shots of the New Mexico landscape more often than he ... More >>

Breaking Bad's Vince Gilligan Reveals the Exact Moment Walter White "Broke Bad" Forever

Walter White: From a nobody to someone you avoid

HEARTBREAK

Mr. White, we're going to miss you

Viggo Mortensen Can't Save the Personality Crisis Inherent in Everybody has a Plan (Todos Tenemos un Plan)

Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burn on Side Effects, Their Latest Collaboration

Barack and Mitt Will Have Lunch Today; Here's What They Could Talk About

It has been almost a month now since America went to the polls and re-elected President Obama to another four years of running this whole place. Since then, we've collectively done well in the whole "taking our minds off the election" business. We've had Petraeus, the progress of the Sandy recovery, ... More >>

Eight Musicians Who've Proved Themselves Damn Fine Authors

Thanks to Frankenstorm, a whole slate of concerts has been wiped out tonight and tomorrow, including this evening's Joshua Radin/A Fine Frenzy gig at Best Buy Theater--it's been rescheduled for Sunday, Nov. 4. As it turns out, Alison Sudol, the brainy beauty behind AFF, is about more than just music ... More >>

NYS Meth Lab Busts Increase in 2012; Thanks Walter White!

This is what happens when everyone becomes a fan of Breaking Bad.The Associated Press reported this morning that 2012 has already seen a large spike in the amount of meth lab busts across New York State. Last year around time, only 45 laboratories of that blue were raided by authorities; this year, ... More >>

Everything Went Wrong At The Emmys

That's the thesis of The Wrap's Tim Molloy, who questioned some of the choices made in the envelopes--and in the telecast itself--last night. For example, Molloy thinks it was weird to pick Two And a Half Men's Jon Cryer as Best Actor in a Comedy over candidates like Don Cheadle, Alec Baldwin, and ... More >>

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Noxious Anti-Islam Video Producer, Was Government Informant

This is interesting: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the guy believed to have produced that anti-Islam movie which apparently sparked the murder of a U.S. Ambassador in Libya was a federal informant, The Smoking Gun reports. Nakoula, 55, flipped and informed on Eiad Salameh, who was running a major check ... More >>

Mitt Romney is a Snooki Fan, Reaffirming That He's Out of Touch with America

As reality television slowly drags itself into the oblivion, it is safe to say that we, as a country, are pretty much done with MTV's 'Jersey Shore.' The greased-up guido and obnoxious fist-pumping fad came and went but, nonetheless, it did happen: at one point, the show was the highest rated show e ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Love "Crystal Blue Persuasion" So Much?

Live: Janelle Monáe, TV On The Radio, And Toro Y Moi Break Boundaries At Afro-Punk

Afro-Punk Festival Commodore Barry Park Sunday, August 26 Better than: Sitting at home, waiting for Breaking Bad to start. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley were some of the original architects of rock and roll. Jimi Hendrix pushed it forward in the late '60s. Then came Prince. And Bad B ... More >>

Aita's Fritto Misto di Vedura: Praise the Fried-Food Gods!

[See More Taste Tests: Taco Box Debuts at B Bar on Bowery | Is This New York's Most Expensive [Normal] Hot Dog? | Noodles: Hand-Pulled or Knife-Peeled?] Fact: Deep-fried foods are bad for you. Fact: They are tasty. But not all deep-fried foods are created equal--or equally bad for you, anyway. On a ... More >>

The Heat Wave Will Destroy Your Social Media

Yesterday night, while we were blasting the A/C indoors, catching up on the second season of Breaking Bad via Netflix, we noticed that the reliable video service was down. So we decided to snap a picture of the screen, add a Hudson filter and upload it to Instagram. But that wasn't working ... More >>

Bath Salts: Six Myths Dispelled

If you had thought that bizarre, bath salts-related news would have subsided by now, you certainly would have thought wrong: Bath salts-dealing gangs are apparently a thing in Muncie, Indiana; Cops found a Utica man, reportedly under the influence of bath salts, hiding on the roof of his girlfriend' ... More >>

Questlove's Quest

The always-working bandleader puts the world on shuffle at BAM

My Resolutions For The New Year

This year, they're pretty easy to figure: *To watch more TV. It'll be good for conversing at parties, where I usually go as blank as a runway model upon any mention of Tough Love or Breaking Bad. *To stop hating on people because they exhibit the same exact flaws I have. Instead of saying "Sh ... More >>

The Voice Battles On

​On the same night that American Idol rumbles on to its inevitable conclusion, it's pretty great to switch the channel over an hour later and catch one of these zippy, not-too-serious battle-round episodes of The Voice. This show has its problems, and it's still very early on, but right now it ... More >>

Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold

We will never own one of these. ​Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>

And Now, The Real Trailer For The Fake "Weird Al" Yankovic Biopic

"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" from Aaron Paul A Funny or Die thing, this. Patton Oswalt as Dr. Demento, Olivia Wilde as Madonna, the dude from Breaking Bad as Al, Al himself as a bizarrely groomed skeptic. Could've used a Coolio cameo, but alas.

Emmy Nominees Include The Family Guy, Ernest Borgnine; Jon & Kate Snubbed

Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane. For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>