J-Lo. Jenny from the Block. The former "niffer" of Benniffer. All of these are names for America's favorite singer/dancer/actress/entrepreneur: Jennifer Lopez.
Fun, flirty and fantastically infectious, the U.K.-trio The Pipettes' debut album, We Are The Pipettes, delivers retro-pop with a brand new wrapping.
No matter how many times it's played, it would be obnoxiously overdone. Let's not even talk about the next song, "Sugar," which starts to get painful at around 50 seconds.
It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when it became apparent that Grey's Anatomy's downward spiral was permanent. Perhaps it was the episode when the main character, Meredith, died-only to awake...
Viewers still lamenting the end of Fox's The OC earlier this spring need only change the channel to enter a new world of adolescent privilege in this fall's Gossip Girl. Gossip Girl, roughly based...
To butcher a line from Ricky Ricardo. "Heroes, you got a lot of explaining to do." The first season finale of NBC's epic sci-fi drama was disappointing to say the least. To be honest, it was a...
What's more enjoyable than watching stranded adult contestants survive in the middle of Nowhere, USA? Watching preteens try to do the same thing. This is Kid Nation, where Survivor meets Lord of...
Take a popular Spanish telenovela, add American actors, the perfect mixture of glam and melodrama and you get Ugly Betty. Right now, the male crowd may still be skeptical of plunging into a world...
Would-be code-monkeys rest assured, The Office remains the only show on television with the ability to make working for the weekend an enviable career. It does this, as ever, with a spot-on blend...
Imagine the pomp of Frasier Crane and acidity of Everybody Love Raymond's Debra colliding in a newsroom sitcom. Sounds like the makings of comedic brilliance. Too bad the show is broadcast on...
I am willing to put it out there: Chuck is the best new show on network television. I know what you must be thinking: But Varun, how can you claim Chuck is the best when there are shows like...
That's right, the members of Matchbox Twenty have officially returned from their hiatus and are finally releasing new material; all is right in the world again. With their first recording in over...
Rapper Soulja Boy drops his highly anticipated debut album Souljaboytellem.com this week. Chances are that if you haven't been living under a rock for the past couple months, you'll already know...
It seems like my past couple of posts in this Sandbox/Editor's note combination that I write have required the use of YouTube.
Raised by two theater teachers, one with a background in directing and the other in acting, Bergen grew up making the stage his home and theater his craft.
Sundance has its indie charms. Venice boasts a global crowd. But who among the film festival brethren can satisfy the outlandish palates of the splatter-happy sci-fi crowd?
"He marched to the beat of the drum that he created-not only the drumbeat but the drum itself. He made no bones about it."
Last fall, Professor Chanequa Walker-Barnes taught a women's studies class on representations of black women's identities.
It's always been difficult to determine what kind of musician Bruce Springsteen is exactly. Amidst his long career of boisterous stadium rockers, he has every so often managed to sneak in quiet,...
One of the great things about Duke is the opportunity to study abroad in just about any place that has two people and a hut.
