Comedy Central is premiering its first ever unscripted, competition program called Reality Bites Back, which satirizes reality television. Reality Bites Back will be hosted by Michael Ian Black, of MTV's The State and the film Wet Hot American Summer, and will feature ten comedian contestants: Kyle Cease, Chris Fairbanks, Jeff Garcia, Red Grant, Tiffany Haddish, Bert Kreischer, Mo Mandel, Donnell Rawlings, Amy Schumer and Theo Von.
After a series of bizarre competitions, one of the contestants will be kicked off of the show each week. The winner will receive $50,000 and the title "Lord of all Reality".
MyToons.com has over $15,000 in prizes for their latest contest on high-definition online animation, including a two-night trip to NYC, with dinner at the strategically located and world-renowned Chop Suey restaurant so as to see their winning animation in Times Square.
The contest, entitled Get with the Times!, allows animators to submit their HD animations to MyToons.com, with the winner getting their animation played on the Spectacolor HD Clear Channel billboard, powered by Adobe® Flash technology, in Times Square, which will be played once every hour.
The contest is open through September 4.
The winner will also receive a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection.
Singer-songwriter Sonya Kitchell will be releasing a new album, This Storm, in stores September 2. This Storm is Kitchell's second album; her debut release, Words Came Back To Me, was recorded when she was just fifteen years-old.
This Storm will feature a more grown-up Kitchell. This time around, she worked with producer and Grammy winner Malcolm Burn, of Peter Gabriel and Daniel Lanois fame. The tracks on this album focus on troubling issues such as loss, aloneness, and of course, war.
One of the biggest concert events of 2008 is coming to Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C. on September 20. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in conjunction with the John Entwistle Foundation, will stage a benefit concert that is sure to be among the most anticipated shows in recent memory.
Proceeds from the concert will benefit both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's education outreach efforts and the John Entwistle Foundation's program, which provide musical instruments and music lessons to disadvantaged youths through the public library systems in communities across the country. John Entwistle was the legendary bass guitarist for The Who, and is himself a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Episode three of Live From Abbey Road will showcase the talents of Panic at the Disco, David Gray, and Suzanne Vega at Abbey Road Studio in London.
Punk quartet Panic at the Disco perform "Nine in the Afternoon" off of their second album Pretty Odd, the band's sophomore album, released after their twice-platinum album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Panic at the Disco also discusses touring and having to write a follow-up to an already successful album.
Low vs. Diamond announced a co-headlining tour with Nikolai Fraiture of The Strokes (Nickel Eye), beginning January 18th in Philadelphia, Pa.
Spending most of 2008 winning over fans and critics with their intoxicating mix of big notes and melodies, this Los Angeles-based quintet had an incredibly rewarding year that included Rolling Stone Magazine hailing the band as an "Artist To Watch" and the band's upcoming single "Don't Forget Sister" as "one of the top singles ...
Interviews - General Spill.com's Korey Coleman Jenna Bensoussan - Tuesday, 23 December 2008 Have you ever been to a movie that you just absolutely hated? Do tell - and then maybe you'll get your money back! Spill.com's Korey Coleman tells us about their new feature to help poor defenseless movie-goers defend themselves from the big bad production studios.
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ACED Bloggers - Pop Culture Blog What the Flip? Daniel Sargeant - Tuesday, 06 January 2009 MTV has their own little campaign going on for college students right now.
They gave 100 Flip camcorders to 100 college students around the country and told them to get inspired and surprise us with some video footage of their own design.
Different themes guided them, some were open-ended, others were scavenger hunts and others were questions only they could answer.
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Feature Articles
Feature Articles - Seasonal 2008, a Brief Retrospect Jenna Bensoussan - Wednesday, 31 December 2008
A lot has happened in 2008. Of course, it will go down in history as the year America elected Obama into office, the first African-American President. And, thankfully, the last year Bush has to ruin what's left of the country he has polluted for so many years.
Many people have mixed feelings about what our future holds as a people in this ...
An impossibly cute, but impossible-to-live-with yellow Labrador retriever named Marley teaches his newlywed owners a thing or two about patience and parenthood.
Benjamin Button (Pitt) was born under unusual circumstances. As everyone around him grew older, he aged backwards, making the challenges of life such as creating friendships, finding a job and falling in love all the more difficult and heartbreaking.
Near the end of WWII, Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) leads to group of fellow German army colonels in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler; the event would later be called the July 20 Plot of 1944.
What happens when you agree with everyone and say "yes" to everything? Carl (Carrey) is about to find out when he chooses to become overly agreeable for an entire year.
It is the new craze in multi-media -- slotMusic. SanDisk introduced the first slotMusic player. They are small, light-weight and can play all those wonderful little 1 GB slot cards from your favorite artists. The great ...
Reviews - Music Mini Civalias, Worth the Time Daniel W. Butler - Tuesday, 06 January 2009 The multi-talented songwriter, Adam Stidham, brought the members of Civalias together in Southern California to form this interesting band from such influences as Coldplay and Radiohead.
Civalias has a very strong and forward strength to their music.
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While most average cooks are content to follow a recipe and create a limitless array of healthy, fresh meals; the process is not without its problems. Some recipes can be hard to follow, missing key ingredients or lack important detail altogether.
For those of you content to heat boxes of heavily processed foods in
the microwave or empty cans into pots, the process ...
MyToons.com has over $15,000 in prizes for their latest contest on high-definition online animation, including a two-night trip to NYC, with dinner at the strategically located and world-renowned Chop Suey restaurant so as to see their winning animation in Times Square.
Have you ever been to a movie that you just absolutely hated? Do tell - and then maybe you'll get your money back! Spill.com's Korey Coleman tells us about their new feature to help poor defenseless movie-goers defend themselves from the big bad production studios.
Read More
A lot has happened in 2008. Of course, it will go down in history as the year America elected Obama into office, the first African-American President. And, thankfully, the last year Bush has to ruin what's left of the country he has polluted for so many years.
It is the new craze in multi-media -- slotMusic. SanDisk introduced the first slotMusic player. They are small, light-weight and can play all those wonderful little 1 GB slot cards from your favorite artists. The great ...
While most average cooks are content to follow a recipe and create a limitless array of healthy, fresh meals; the process is not without its problems. Some recipes can be hard to follow, missing key ingredients or lack important detail altogether.
