Professional Wrestling

Selling Music is Easy: Just Partner With WWE and Wrestlemania

Sunday night, the biggest sports-entertainment spectacle of the year, Wrestlemania 29, returns home to the New York/New Jersey area that birthed the event almost 30 years ago. While fans are flying in from all over the world to see such colossal match-ups as John Cena vs. The Rock and Brock Lesnar v ... More >>

Five Action Bronson Wrestling References Explained

Tonight one of New York's favorite new hometown heroes, Action Bronson, plays Brooklyn Bowl. While there's been much discussed in regard to his frequent references to food, be it invoking particular dishes as a metaphor, a by-product of his vivid storytelling or employed to advance a narrative, not ... More >>

Colt Cabana: A Wrestler Grapples With His Entrance Music

The life of an independent professional wrestler is busy enough, but for Colt Cabana, squaring off in the ring is only the beginning. A wrestler, actor (you may have seen him with legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka in a recent Old Navy commercial), stand-up comic, and popular podcaster, his ta ... More >>

Smoke DZA on Old School Harlem Dust Smokers, The Canadian Border Patrol, And Whether 2Pac Is Alive In Cuba

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar will ask local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Smoke DZA is the Kushed God. Calling Harlem home, the weed connoisseur rapper has cultivated a fine crop of fans and can boast an army of 65k faithful Twitte ... More >>

LIGHTS OUT

Wishing you peace, love, 
and a cage match

Naked Holidays

WILD CARD

Five days of filmmakers, bands, artists, and mayhem!

Don't Judge a Movie By Its WWE Affiliation: The Pulpy Surprise of Inside Out

The 2011 Juggalo Infomercial Has Arrived, Spoofing Star Wars and Starring Vanilla Ice

Please enjoy this year's Juggomercial. It's 27:03 minutes long, less than an hour old, and takes place in a spaceship traveling to planet "earf." It is allegedly here to inform the world that wrestlers like Rowdy Roddy Piper and King Kong Bundy will be doing stand-up at the Gathering of the Jugga ... More >>

American Idol: It's Finally Over!

Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

John Cena Announces Osama Bin Laden's Death at WWE Championship; Crowd Goes Insane

Last night, after winning the WWE championship in a triple threat steel cage match, wrestler John Cena came out and announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. As you can imagine, the crowd goes absolutely wild. "Things I saw: servicemen showing their Army tats, people crying, kids being lifted ... More >>

Wrestler With A Hardon

I guess wearing skin-tight lycra, rolling around with opponents, and most of all, winning can be deeply arousing. Photo link after the break.

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 >>

RAW MEAT

Who will rule the ring?

ALIENS ATTACK

Jonathan Lethem discusses They Live

The Knives Come Out in Culinary Horror Bitter Feast

Legendary, Brought to You by WWE Films, With WWE Music, and a WWE Star

Mike Tyson's Top Ten Rap Cameos

​Reggie Rock Bythewood's One Night in Vegas, airing on ESPN tonight as part of the network's "30 for 30" documentary series, shines a light on the little known friendship and many parallels between tortured souls Mike Tyson and Tupac Shakur. The title of Bythewood's documentary is a reference ... More >>

The Roots Make Their Bid to Become the WWE House Band, Too

Exhibit #452a in the case for the endless versatility of the Roots, Black Thought in particular: Jimmy Fallon's house band doing an ace, mega-gruff version of WWE star Triple H's entrance music, Black Thought cracking up while simultaneously screaming BOW DOWN TO THE GAME as even the Game himself ... More >>

RAW MEAT

The WWE crew takes no prisoners

Don't Blame "Smackdown" for Jumping Boy's Death: You Might Get Sued

The tragic death of nine-year-old Damori Miles, who jumped off a Brooklyn apartment building roof Tuesday with a parachute he crafted from string and a plastic bag, is being attributed to the wrestling video game "WWE Smackdown." The Daily News reports: Shakar, Damori's best friend, said his pal ... More >>

12 Rounds

BLOOD MATCH

Ring of Honor paints Hammerstein Ballroom red

NEW DANCE RISING

He breaks the Mould—yes, we went there

Ring of Honor

WW-EH?!

Someone is definitely going to bust a nut (or a vein)

Idol Gives Back 2: A Running Diary

50 Cent vs. Cam'ron: Internet Beef

Nas's "Where Are They Now" Remixes: Publicity-Stunt Greatness

'DOA: Dead or Alive'

'The Marine'

Dance Music Clichés Abused And Transcended

'Gridiron Gang'

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

NY Mirror

Big Riff Men

Dependable bruisers triumph by laying back and getting silly

Wrestling With the Margins

The academy puts on its tights and steps into the ring

White Suburban American Underclass Chooses Pain Over Pot

Sell Like Hell

The Sting

Letters

Everything’s Fake but the Deaths

How the WWF-WCW Ratings Battle Led to Real Casualties

Letters

Grappling With Homosexuality

Professional Wrestling: Simultaneously Homoerotic and Homophobic

Performance Anxieties

Sports

Waking Andy Kaufman

School of Hard Knocks

Pro-Wrestling Wannabes Learn the Ropes at the North East Wrestling Facility Story

Truth Be Told

The Sordid Details