Now that he's out of the pool, with no more races to win or records to break, Michael Phelps has a bit of a problem. Perched mightily atop the apex of modern athletic achievement, with the white hot light of International Superstardom now pointed directly at him, Phelps is in...

As any self-respecting indie rock fan worth the price of their designer jeans already knows, the latest musical masterpiece from Radiohead has been released, through a visionary self-distribution experiment in which you're able to download the record directly,...

As someone who was a big fan of making a point to never watch a single episode The OC (especially when everyone I know was still pathologically obsessed with its each and every reheated 90210 plotline), I am...

Now that George W. Bush has officially changed his self-administered title from "The Decider" to "The Commander Guy", I thought I might take this as an opportunity to suggest a few other euphemisms the president might use to describe his duties with a little bit more panache.

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All kidding aside, I happen to believe that Sanjaya Malakar will go down in TV history as the single most important personality ever to emerge from the American Idol phenomenon. Not because he's funny, not because he's cute, and not because he can't sing. Sanjaya will be remembered not for...