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Gallery: Frances Bean Cobain’s Tattoos, Decoded
Frances Bean Cobain is only 18, but she already has quite a few tattoos. Here are some attempts at explaining some of them. More »
Kids Freak Out After Getting SAT Test Question About Reality TV
During this past weekend’s round of SAT tests, students who were already tearing their hair out were faced with a question that, surprisingly, invoked anxiety: Do we benefit from forms of entertainment that show so-called “reality,” or are such shows harmful? According to the New York Daily News, many high schoolers were sure they had flunked the essay portion. (Side note: Remember when you were terrified of blurting out even a scant detail about the SAT essay question, for fear of having your exam disregarded? Guess that’s not as big a threat these days.) Apparently they didn’t consider reality television a universal enough topic to be acceptable for this wide-ranging test of aptitude. More »
Columbia College Chicago References ‘Glee,’ ‘Simpsons’ to Get Kids to Apply
Often you hear of schools that namedrop famous alumni in interviews or newsletters, in the hopes of attracting more applicants. However, Columbia College Chicago did two things differently: They made comparisons between their majors and popular TV shows and other pop culture happenings, and they did so over Twitter. More »
Video: Ashton Kutcher Speaks On Matter Of Great Importance
Hey, have you heard that Ashton Kutcher‘s maybe-mistress has a bunch of text exchanges from The Killers‘ star that she’s releasing? Totally Tiger Woods‘ mistress style! Anyway, here’s Ashton not talking about that. More »
5 Guys Pop Culture Tells You to Date (But You Really Shouldn’t)
On Monday we showed you that sometimes Hollywood gets it wrong in terms of judging guys by their covers, or at least by their job title. Not every lawyer is a scumbag, not every politician will sleep with a prostitute, and not every finance guy is Gordon Gekko from Wall Street.
But did you know it works the opposite way too? Turns out a bunch of screenwriters got together one day and decided that every underdog or diamond in the rough… More »
James Franco Crowned King Of All Media – Finally, some validation for what we’ve been saying over at Crushable for awhile now: James Franco is truly the most prolific (if slightly insane) artist alive today. Now, he just needs to start a war with the President of Pop Culture, Ashton Kutcher. (via FlavorWire)
Your Ex-Boyfriend, Pop Culture, And You
Speaking of the True Blood premiere, the only reason that I got into that show in the first place was because a guy I was dating last September was obsessed with it. Which yeah, seemed a little weird at the time (he was also really into Glee, which should have been a good warning sign right there), but after he basically sat me down and cajoled me into watching what I considered “another stupid vampire thing,” I was hooked. I’ve had the same resistance to Lost, the band The Hold Steady, and sushi: all of them had to be force-fed to me (sometimes literally) by somebody I liked. More »
American Idol May Actually Know What They’re Doing
A really good story on Yahoo! News by the Associated Press about the credibility American Idol now has with it’s ongoing identification and promotion of singers that actually do have talent.
But as America’s most popular show prepares to kick off its sixth season Tuesday, it’s getting harder and harder for music snobs to deny its cultural import. “American Idol” has consistently churned out multiplatinum stars, Grammy-nominated artists and engaging celebrities (and, just maybe, an Oscar nominee in “Dreamgirls” star and… More »