The potential arrival of Nicki Minaj to the “American Idol” judges’ chair has tongues wagging, but will it bring viewers back? Find out what the Popblerd staff thinks.
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Brian Boone
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Here’s the deal, fathers. If you have daughters—or sons who don’t care about outmoded gender roles (and if so, good on you, man)—there is a 90 percent chance that at some point during your day, you’re going to have to watch something with unicorns in it. The key is to find a unicorn-based entertainment which
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Michael Sarko
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Food Network changed the way we’re entertained by food and those who cook it.
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Brian Boone
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Warm milk. A bath in lavender soap. An old episode of the 80s TV adaptation of Babar. These are the three things that every parent knows can relax and put to sleep even the fussiest of toddlers. Glory be, as Nelvana’s Babar, long a mainstay of VHS, the early morning hours of family-friendly cable channels,
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Jeff Giles
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If, like me, you shed a silent Gen X tear when Reading Rainbow was forced off the air a few years ago, and if, like me, you felt bad for longtime host LeVar Burton, whose public quest to drum up funding for his (utterly worthwhile) show came to naught, you’ll be happy to learn that
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Michael Sarko
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It’s great that the adaptation is so faithful to the source material, but Seven help us, it’s all so damn confusing.
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Michael Sarko
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Genuinely bizarre stuff that belongs in its own, special, thoroughly un-ironic corner of human artistic expression.
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Michael Sarko
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Two relatively interesting things happened on NBC this week. The Office finally closed out its Florida arc by dragging most of the subplot’s principal characters back to Scranton and Community returned after…
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Michael Sarko
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The American adaptation of The Office is, in its own way, the most consistently interesting show on stateside television. It’s a network microcosm show, one that reflects the nature and fate…
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Michael Sarko
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On its face, CBS’s new sitcom ¡Rob! doesn’t have a terrible premise. Executed properly, it could actually be pretty endearing. It’s the story of an American man who unwittingly marries into…
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Brian Boone
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The Slits’ cover of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” should have been that one song from the weird, still-breaking genre of punk that got some radio play and introduced…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Take a magically magic journey over a beautiful rainbow emanating from an ogre’s butt.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Perpetuating sadness and misery via the internet, Popdose presents YouTube Roulette!
Chris Holmes
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Kirkus Reviews, founded in 1933, is a venerable institution in the media world. For more than 75 years, Kirkus has served as the industry bible for bookstore buyers, librarians, and…
Tony Redman
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Way Out Wednesday returns for a spell with a mixtape of songs commemorating the Scripps National Spelling Bee!
Dw. Dunphy
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What is a “universal,” why do they make fascinating storylines, and why do their makers understand them so poorly? Popdose.com asks the questions.
Dw. Dunphy
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From time to time, it is interesting to look back on albums often regarded as classic, if just to divine what is so classic about them. Some albums have had…
Scott Malchus
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Premiering tonight on TNT is the new dramedy series, Men of a Certain Age, which comes from Emmy winners Ray Romano and Mike Royce, one of the executive producers and…
Robin Monica Alexander
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I barely knew him. Yet here I was, on a cold Tuesday night, at his apartment. We had had a drink or two at the bar/lounge/restaurant down the street from…
Popdose Staff
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Lights! Camera! Action! It’s time once again for Hollywood to take one day out of the year to congratulate itself for a job well done. Won’t you join us while we watch the 2009 Emmy Awards?
Michael Fortes
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Michael Fortes concludes his visit with the Parson Red Heads in L.A. with a tour of their blissfully communal pad and an unexpected run-in with the LAPD.
Dw. Dunphy
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A-B-C! It’s easy as do-re-mi! Art Brut – Summer Job from Art Brut vs. Satan (2009) Bat for Lashes – Moon and Moon from Two Suns (2009) Battles – Atlas…
Dw. Dunphy
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This week’s mixtape is Chris Hansen approved! Truly! Would Chris Hansen steer you wrong? By the way, why don’t you head into the kitchen for some sweet tea and brownies?…