Jersey Shore (TV Show)

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 >>

MTV's Video Music Awards Enters The Post-Music-Video Era

If You Google Searched "Snooki Nude" In The Last Four Days, You're Letting The Terrorists Win (We're Looking At You, Dallas)

Much to your dismay, we're sure, nude photos of Jersey Shore star "Snooki" have surfaced and currently are making the rounds on the Internet. Snooki, as you know, is more of a punchline than an actual person -- often ridiculed for her "meatball"-esque appearance and Jersey-like demeanor. That said, ... More >>

Snooki's Gorilla Beach Reportedly Hits Web; We Read The First Chapter (and Survive!)

Is Snooki the Bret Easton Ellis of guidos? Her novel Gorilla Beach -- a Jersey Shore roman a clef, if you will -- will hit bookstore shelves May 15. Hollywoodlife.com claimed this afternoon to have gotten an exclusive copy of the first chapter, "Like a Slutty Virgin." Of course, we had guessed t ... More >>

Hunter Moore Makes a Living Screwing You

The hated revenge-porn profiteer says he wants to teach a lesson with his web site. How long before the 26-year-old learns one himself?

Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Everybody Is Mad at Chris Christie

Ah, New Jersey. The land where fake orange tans and affable, clueless Republicans come together to make magic. New Yorkers should consider themselves lucky to live so close to New Jersey, particularly right now. New Jersey governor Chris Christie, one-time potential Republican presidential candidat ... More >>

Q&A: Lexie "Mountain" Macchi On The Triwave Picogenerator, Baltimore, And Jersey Shore

Baltimore's Lexie Macchi isn't so much a relentlessly inquisitive sound-shifter as she is a Renaissance Everywoman dynamo. There is, seemingly, nothing she can't do or hasn't done. The Crazy Dreams Band, which she fronted, exploded Gang Gang Dance's polygenre supernovae into something capable of set ... More >>

Sound Of The City's 11 Clickiest Posts Of 2011

We're about to close up shop here until 2012, and what better way to send out the year that birthed trollgaze than to run down the 11 posts on Sound of the City that generated the most pageviews over the course of the past 52 weeks? Enjoy this look back on the psyche of our readers, and have a happy ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Readings to Feed Your Wintertime Fears

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People Love Nostalgia, So Why Doesn't MTV Go All In?

Snooki's Ode To Pickles

Snooki​ You heard me. Well, I guess she knew that "Ode on a Grecian Urn" was already written, so she stuck with what she knows. This is from the Jersey Shore star's new book, Confessions of a Guidette:

10 Things You Should Know About the New Beavis and Butt-Head

This past weekend at New York Comic-Con, Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge presented the inaugural public screening of his crude animation's newly rebooted first episode. Chris Linn, MTV Executive Vice President of MTV Production, introduced the pilot, which premieres October 27 at 10 p.m.. ... More >>

Jersey Shoresical Is Not A Boresical

​The raucously low-class reality show Jersey Shore tends to spoof itself, so a musical mockery of it seemed to me like a bad idea. But the production I just saw at the Actors Playhouse--which was a hit at the Fringe Festival--was a winner, because it's fast-moving, with nonstop music and raun ... More >>

Live: LMFAO Cause Panda-Monium At Pier 36

​ LMFAO w/Swizz Beatz Pier 36 Thursday, August 11 Better than: Watching the new episode of Jersey Shore. It was a beautiful coincidence that LMFAO, holders of the No. 1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 for most of the summer of 2011, headlined the trade publication's end-of-summer blowout at Pier ... More >>

We Have Obtained a Copy of MTV's Standard Real World Cast-Member Contract

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Last Wednesday's Village Voice cover story profiled the DeBartoli sisters, two Staten Island sisters who starred in the never-aired Jersey Shore precursor Bridge & Tunnel who signed enorm ... More >>

Beavis And Butt-Head Return To A Racier, More Snookified MTV

MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. You may have heard by now that Beavis and Butt-Head are returning to MTV—a real comeback after years of cruel teasing rumors, none of them particularly believable. Mike Judge an ... More >>

Matt Pinfield And 120 Minutes Return To TV; Will The Audience Follow?

MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. ​Back when he was a music-obsessed teenager growing up on Long Island, and long before he started the influential music website Stereogum, Scott Lapatine never missed an episode o ... More >>

The Creature Behind Snooki's Success Is a Flatulent Horse

I don't know why you would want to watch this either.As the fourth season of Jersey Shore creeps upon us like red tide, and we learn more about Bridge & Tunnel, a precursor MTV show that the Shore's guido-monsters ate, let us remember how hyperventilating poofball Snooki came to be.

Guy Fieri Gets a New Yellow Convertible; Jersey Shore Cast Members Banned from The Box

​Guy Fieri has replaced the canary-yellow Lamborghini that was stolen last month with what calls a "bitchin' Camaro," in bright yellow. [SF Chronicle] A new iPhone app allows you to snap a picture of a dish, then converts it into a corresponding calorie count. Magic? [CNET] The new People's ... More >>

Snooki Paid More Than Toni Morrison to Appear at Rutgers

​Not a joke: New York Times best-selling author Snooki will be paid $32,000 by the Rutgers University Programming Association for appearing at two "student-produced comedy Q&A sessions" yesterday. This has generated great controversy, as that's $2,000 more than the amount Toni Morrison, who, y ... More >>

Surprise! MTV's Latest Sex Education Campaign Fails Miserably

​From the network that brought you Skins, a slanted version of the British teen drama featuring drugs, booze, and scandalous sex, and Jersey Shore (we'll save our breath explaining that one), MTV presents: SEXIDENTS, the failed attempt at a sex-education campaign. Bravo, MTV, you have yet agai ... More >>

Snooki Adds Wrestling to Her List of Many Talents

Our tiny, tanned authoress really can do anything she sets her mind to, can't she? Here, Snooki has her own horribly overacted WWE moment, which, now that we think about it, is probably not all that different from being on the Jersey Shore. Snooki will wrestle Vickie Guerrero live at the Georgia Dom ... More >>

In Defense of My Beloved Snooki: The Best Valentine's Date Ever

​Jersey Shore star Snooki has been voted by Yahoo users as the worst Valentine's date. The New York Daily News News reports that she "got 41 percent of votes in a poll of omg! Yahoo readers on the woman with whom they would least like to spend Valentine's Day." This is so wrong: Snooki would b ... More >>

What to Watch Today Instead of the Super Bowl

A competitor in today's Puppy Bowl.​This evening at 6 p.m., you'll most likely be tuning into the Super Bowl to watch some football team play some other team. I think its the Packers vs. the Seahawks or something. The Steelers. The Packers vs. the Steelers. Look, you could join the lowest com ... More >>

Snooki to Own World, One Fuzzy Slipper at a Time

​Following in the plush footsteps of any double/triple/six-packed threat (what's with the Situation these days, anyway?), Snooki, who already, obviously, has a book out, not to mention her special limited edition New Year's Eve pendant, is set to unroll an unprecedented array of new "Snooki-br ... More >>

Snooki's Novel Is Out Tomorrow. It Is Everything We Ever Dreamed of.

​Just days after her New Year's Eve ball drop in Seaside Heights and the launch of her very own limited edition $49 pendant, Snooki is in the news again, this time with the release of her highly anticipated debut novel, A Shore Thing, out tomorrow! The New York Post has a preview of some of th ... More >>

Ousted from Times Square, Local Hero Returns to Jersey Shore to Execute "Snooki-in-a-Ball"

​Rest easy, friends, because our dear, displaced Snooki has found a home for New Years Eve! After being ousted from the Times Square ceremony in which she'd been "supposed to" drop in the ball "like a friggin' hampster," her homeland has taken her in again. Via the New York Times Arts Beat, sh ... More >>

Michael Musto's Year in Review

Social and economic turmoil? Don't ask. At least we had Lady Gaga to tell us what to do.

Natalie Storm, Blondes, DJ Pauly D, Derrick May, And (Maybe!) Prince Headline Your Week In Nightlife

​Your partying jag kicks off on Thursday this week and features a global takeover of NYC. Jamaican dancehall queen Natalie Storm is something of an obsession for us lately (especially after Friday night's reOPENed party) -- she's returning to the Lower East Side for an appearance at Happy Endi ... More >>

"There's No Way I'm Going to Jersey Without My Hair Gel."

​No, I haven't lost my mind. If I ever go back to Jersey, I'll surely be brave enough to do it sans gel -- and even sans undies. I'm just quoting one of the beach blanket witticisms in the new Gym, Tanning, Laundry: The Official 'Jersey Shore' Quote Book, which is as chockfull of epigrams a ... More >>

The Death (and Comeback) of the Music Video Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

This week's New York magazine features a short article entitled "Why MTV Is Bringing Back Music Videos," which it isn't exactly. What MTV is doing is using its sizable funds to pair working directors with musicians and possibly even famous actors for a music video series entitled Supervideo. The fir ... More >>

Park Slope Food Coop a Hot Ticket; Snooki to Dress Up as Pickle for Halloween

​In the last few years, whole-wheat pasta options have expanded and gotten tastier, with varieties made of farro and spelt going for $10 a pound or more. [NY Times] Wal-Mart has officially announced that it will source produce from local, sustainable small and medium-size farmers. [NY Times ... More >>

Press Clips: Parker Spitzer Goes For Ratings Glory, Doggy Style

​It is no longer hailing, but it's supposed to be freezing outside. Inside, I have a fan blowing on my face. It's Tuesday. Press Clips, Day 12, Late Edition, right here:

Jersey Shore's Snooki Found Guilty of "Annoying Others"

​Sometimes the headlines just write themselves. Spoiler: The Jersey Shore's embattled Snooki was found guilty of "annoying others on the beach with her antics," which included, apparently, using a beer bong, falling off a bike, and being entirely too tan (that's just our opinion).

Give Robyn Her Knock Back

A beloved pop star's Body Talk series withers away to treble

Snooki's Boyfriend, Who Is Definitely Not Using Her for Fame, Proposes Via Magazine Cover

​Every post-modern girl of a certain age dreams of being proposed to on the cover of a high-class glossy magazine. And yet, only a few of us ever actually get to see that fantasy come true. A beer-bong toast, then, to the Jersey Shore's Snooki, whose ex-Iraq vet boyfriend of two weeks has seen ... More >>

It's Official: New Jersey No Longer "Retarded"

​New Jersey gets a bad rap as the "armpit of America," which goes without mentioning all the wonderful reference-points pop culture's recently yielded to represent The Garden State, like Bravo's The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Oxygen's Jersey Couture, and of course, MTV's ratings record-bre ... More >>

"Power," Paintings, Pomposity: The Uncertain Evolution of Kanye West's Music Videos

​Art: this is how we explain away indulgent decisions. Last night, Kanye West released the first visual--do not call it a video--from his as yet untitled new album: a "painting," as he and his director call it, for "Power." The clip premiered on MTV directly following an episode of the network ... More >>

New York Post Shills For MTV's Jersey Shore With Full Snooki Arrest Cover

​Yesterday, upon the arrest of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, we got a lesson on Twitter reporting, as TMZ scoured feeds for beachfront witnesses of "America's beloved pint-sized troublemaker." Wait, who called her "beloved," you might be wondering. That's the New York Post in today's cover story, a ... More >>

Journalism 101, How TMZ Got The Exclusive on Snooki's Arrest: via Twitter

​Watch carefully, Journalism majors. This is how you do it.

Jersey Shore to Get Cast Member Who is Actually from New Jersey

​It seems that the fountain of Jersey Shore happenings will never run dry. The Post reports that a new cast member has joined the crew. Deena Nicole Cortese, of New Egypt, New Jersey, will be replacing villainous Angelina for Season 3.

Jersey Quadruple Threat "The Situation" Launches Bizarrely Successful Brand of Self

​Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, one of the Jersey Shore stars on our recent cover, is ready to help you look more like him. Think you can handle it? He's launching NoX Edge (on Twitter), a pre-workout tablet designed to help people get the most out of their gym time. Publicizing his new supp ... More >>

Jersey Shore's Snooki and Senator John McCain Confront Tanning Tax and Other Things That Are Totally Ruining America

​Okay, so this reality television personage known as "Snooki" (a/k/a Nicole Polizzi, you probably know her as "the girl who got punched in the face on the Jersey Shore") said some things about President Obama's proposed, totally bogus tanning tax during the second season's first episode. Well, ... More >>

I Will Not Watch Jersey Shore!

​MTV has created a media sensation with its hair-gel-filled Jersey Shore show about a bunch of gum popping no-brainers sharing a house in Seaside Heights.

Wish You'd Been There

How the boldfaced and the beautiful spent their summer vacations

Post-Straight

How Gay Men Are Remodeling Regular Guys

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