Vince Gilligan on last episodes of “Breaking Bad”: “It’s going to be polarizing”
The show's creator admits that even he is not sure how the series is going to end
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 10:25 PM UTC
Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad, amc
White people hit by tsunami!
Pick of the week: Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor see their Euro-privilege swept away in "The Impossible"
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Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 10:25 PM UTC
Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad, amc
Fake-ish singer shills for fake college
In an attempt to lure hipsters, University of Phoenix uses a Lana Del Rey song in its ad VIDEO
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 10:08 PM UTC
Video
CBS drama “Hawaii Five-0″ plans choose-your-own ending episode
Viewers will vote one of three culprits guilty in a whodunit murder mystery VIDEO
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 9:36 PM UTC
Video, hawaii five-0, CBS
Golden Globes: Amy Poehler roots for “Avatar” and Tina Fey wants best picture
The two comedians will host the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 13 VIDEO
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 7:48 PM UTC
Video, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey
Tim O’Brien tries to make sense of wartime chaos
Before writing "The Things They Carried," O'Brien offered this profound memoir of his year fighting in Vietnam
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 7:00 PM UTC
Books, tim o'brien, Fiction
Weird news: Watch a Los Angeles station’s bizarre NYE broadcast
KDOC put on a stranger show than even Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper VIDEO
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 6:17 PM UTC
Video, Weird news, KDOC
“Community” writer Megan Ganz leaves for “Modern Family”
The show loses one of its best writers not long after the departure of producer Dan Harmon and actor Chevy Chase
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 5:41 PM UTC
comedy writing, Comedy, Community
“Downton Abbey”: Hard times hit the estate
The series, like Downton itself, once provided an abundance of riches. But nothing lasts forever
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 5:37 PM UTC
Downton Abbey, TV, Television
“Skyfall,” “Django Unchained” earn Producers Guild Nominations
"Moonrise Kingdom" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" made the list, too
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 4:45 PM UTC
skyfall, django unchained
Hillary, coming to a theater near you?
Hollywood is abuzz over a screenplay that imagines the secretary of state as a 20-something at a crossroads
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 3:49 PM UTC
Hillary Clinton, Hollywood
Broadway’s “Wicked” earns new record
The play earned the highest single-week gross of any show in Broadway history VIDEO
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 3:43 PM UTC
aol_on, Video, From the Wires
Justin Bieber calls for tough rules after paparazzo death
The singer urges lawmakers to tighten restrictions on paparazzi VIDEO
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 3:30 PM UTC
aol_on, Video, From the Wires
Must-see morning clip
Jimmy Fallon and "Portlandia's" Fred Armisen reminisce about their old bands VIDEO
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 2:05 PM UTC
Video, Jimmy Fallon, fred armisen
Senate investigating contact between CIA and “Zero Dark Thirty” filmmakers
Sen. Dianne Feinstein will examine the government's role in the "grossly inaccurate" film
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 1:55 PM UTC
Zero Dark Thirty, Senate
How fracking is corroding small-town America
Matt Damon and Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land" explores how fracking is poisoning small towns — like mine
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 53
Movies, matt damon, Gus Van Sant
“Tennessee Waltz” singer Patti Page dies at 85
The best-selling female singer of the 1950s was just five weeks away from being honored at the Grammy Awards
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 10:46 PM UTC
pattie page, tennessee waltz
Girl Talk says next album will be “harder hitting” than previous ones
Greg Gillis talks about his next project, whom he'd like to work with, and what it was like to meet Kanye West
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 9:26 PM UTC
greg gillis, girl talk, Music
“Buckwild”: MTV comes to the Appalachian mountains
MTV may be “heck-bent” on exploiting misguided youth for profit. But "creekers" do exist. And so do people like me
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 8:55 PM UTC 16
MTV, TV, Television
Conan O’Brien bringing sitcom to Fox
"Community's" Ben Wexler will pen the script
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 8:50 PM UTC
Conan O'Brien, Comedy, sitcom
Andrew Sullivan to leave the Daily Beast, taking The Dish with him
The blog will adopt a metered-pay system, relying solely on readers for funding
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 6:30 PM UTC
Andrew Sullivan, the dish
Hugh Hefner marries his “runaway bride”
Crystal Harris broke off their previous engagement in 2011 VIDEO
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 3:46 PM UTC
aol_on, From the Wires
Dying to take a celebrity photo
An amateur photographer is hit by a car snapping a photo of the singer's white Ferrari -- and he wasn't even in it
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 3:26 PM UTC 12
Media Criticism, Paparazzi
Paparazzo killed just after photographing Justin Bieber’s Ferarri
The man was hit by a car in Los Angeles VIDEO
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 3:22 PM UTC
Video, aol_on, Justin Bieber
Must-see morning clip
Cats demonstrate ten New Year's resolutions VIDEO
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 2:18 PM UTC
Video, Cats, Animals, cute
Concerns over e-voting push Oscar nomination deadline back by 24 hours
Members are calling the Academy's first e-vote a "disaster"
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 2:07 PM UTC
Academy Awards, Oscars, Movies
Is documentary-style photography dead?
The rerelease of Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" reminds us what we've lost in the Internet age
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 1:00 AM UTC
LA Review of Books, Nan Goldin
Record reviews: Who needs them?
Music criticism is in a horrible state. It wouldn't have to be if we talked about albums like they really mattered
Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013 10:00 PM UTC 31
Music, Editor's Picks
“Girls”: Can this friendship be saved?
"Girls'" Hannah and Marnie had one of the rawest, most brutal BFF fights depicted on TV. They'll survive. I think
Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013 8:00 PM UTC 12
Lena Dunham, Girls, friendship, TV
Contemporary literature’s obesity epidemic
Novels like Michael Kimball's "Big Ray" reveal that corpulence has become a go-to metaphor for emotional unrest
Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013 5:00 PM UTC
LA Review of Books, Obesity
Sean Hannity lost half his TV audience after the election
Being wrong has consequences
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 11:12 PM UTC 144
Sean Hannity, Media, Fox News
Talking with Daniel Mendelsohn about the year in literary criticism
Two critics discuss 2012's raging debates over sock puppets, Twitter cheerleaders and hatchet-job reviews
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 8:00 PM UTC 12
Best of 2012
North Korea cracks down on knowledge smugglers
The supreme leader wants to stop South Korean television shows from penetrating the Hermit Kingdom VIDEO
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 7:00 PM UTC
aol_on, Video, From the Wires
Ermahgerd! The year in memes
From Texts from Hillary to "Gangham Style," we look back on what went viral in 2012 VIDEO
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
Best of 2012, Video, Twitter
Kim Kardashian is pregnant with Kanye West’s baby
He made the announcement during a concert in Atlantic City VIDEO
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 2:56 PM UTC 18
Video, aol_on, Kanye West
“Jungleland”: In search of a lost city
The true story of a journalist seeking fabled ruins in a Central American jungle is a pulp adventure come to life
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 2:00 AM UTC
Books, Editor's Picks, Nonfiction
Carrie Brownstein: “A lot of these characters are permutations of myself”
The "Portlandia" star cops to occasionally consuming non-locally sourced coffee, among other un-P.C. transgressions
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:00 PM UTC 18
Carrie Brownstein, TV, Television
White nationalist radio program going off the air?
"The Derek Black Show," based in south Florida and catering to white racists, could be looking for a new home
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 2:21 PM UTC
Southern Poverty Law Center
The “Zero Dark Thirty” debate isn’t really about torture
Reducing "Zero Dark Thirty" to a partisan argument about torture misses the big questions it raises about America
Saturday, Dec 29, 2012 5:00 PM UTC 98
Movies, Zero Dark Thirty, Torture
Isabelle Huppert: “I always feel misunderstood, yet that is also what I seek”
The legendary French actress, now starring in Michael Haneke's "Amour," talks about matters of life and death
Saturday, Dec 29, 2012 12:30 AM UTC
Movies, Film, cinema
Tarantino: “I find the criticism ridiculous”
The director opens up to Henry Louis Gates Jr. about race, the n-word and his controversial "Django Unchained"
Saturday, Dec 29, 2012 12:30 AM UTC 21
AlterNet, The Root
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