Creators to 'America's Best Dance Crew' Dancers: Go Beyond the Show
As America's Best Dance Crew prepares to kick off its nationwide tour, the show creators (not to be confused with the producer, American Idol judge Randy Jackson) Howard and Karen Schwartz tells aspiring dance crews that options are practically limitless if you want to try your hand in this field. "What people don't understand is that everything that has entertainment has a little dance behind it," Howard said.  "You got movies, commercials, TV, videos, video games – all these t

Bitch Editors Ask Readers for 40K: Feminist Mag's 'Fate Is In Your Hands'
Debbie Rasmussen and Andi Zeisler, publisher and editorial/creative director of Bitch, the 12-year-old independent magazine that touts itself as a "feminist response to pop culture," have taken the web to ask readers to help raise $40,000 to get the next issue of the magazine out. "This issue might be the last issue," Ms. Rasmussen tells readers. "The important thing is that you know, at every step of the way in the publishing world, Bitch—as a small publication, as an independen

Put Your Hands Together for Gerry Phillips
Our friend Jason was so taken by...

DVD Day: September 16th, 2008
Big DVD Day today, but I'm saving my rupees for The Force Unleashed. Be warned—The Love Guru also comes out today, and if you think there's any chance you might accidentally by it, you might want to just stay home. And cut off your hands. • Speed Racer I don't know what the hell is wrong with the Wachowski brothers that they thought America wanted hundred-million-dollar but slavish adaptation of an old '60s Japanese cartoon, but they were clearly wrong. Still, I'm excited to get this on Netflix and g

Harry Potter Quote of the Day - Draco Malfoy
“”Oh how silly we’ve been!” Malfoy sneered. “We should have stroked them! Why didn’t we guess?” “I-I thought they were funny,” Hagrid said uncertainly to Hermione. “Oh tremendously funny!” said Malfoy. “Really witty, giving us books that try and rip our hands off!” Share This

The Much-Vaunted LOLcat Blog-to-Book [Things We Actually Like]
A couple months ago, we LOL'd at the book proposal for the upcoming LOLcats book, I Can Has Cheezburger? Then, in a blog-to-book roundup, we declared "do not want" on the LOLcat book, explaining, "The LOLcats experience is fleeting; the site stuffed with content, and copycat sites abound." We were right about some of these blog-to-books: the rushed-to-print Stuff White People Like, for instance, sucked and did not merit a review. But! We have the LOLcats books in our hands right now, and we'd like to overtu

Forbes Misses The Mark… Badly
I mean, seriously. I have never read anything quite as random and profoundly irrelevant. The list purports to actually say something about the value of actors, but it is so random about the circumstances of rankings, you have to throw your hands up in the air. There are movies on the list from as long ago as four years… yet it is “the last three wide release movies” of each actor. Yet, Fred Claus is not on the list for Vince Vaughn. And animated films, even if advertised based on the star, like

Randomn Ridiculousness
The 6-foot-8 Vogue icon Andre Leon Talley, cuts a flamboyant figure even when he’s calm. Imagine when he’s frantic. Talley was early for the Stephen Burroughs fashion show on Friday and sitting in the vestibule of the designer’s West 38th Street showroom when a man opened a bottle of Piper-Heidsieck champagne and it sprayed all over Talley. The drenched fashionista screamed, “Look what you’ve done! I’ve got to wear these clothes all day!” And when the clumsy spra

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HETEROSEXUAL MEN DON'T BELIEVE IN SHOELACES JC Chasez goes to lunch; indulges in fish tacos. It's THIS big. As evidenced by... This. It's an optical illusion, right? No way Chase Eva could handle that. Is that your hand in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? Adjusting himself? Maybe his testes are really low-hanging. It happens, see: Cisco. He's just thrilled anyone gives a shit enough to take a picture. You're welcome, JC. I hope you know that it's 100% due to my posts here on ONTD.

Bangkok Dangerous Never Forgets Pre-9/11 Box Office Sales
Nicholas Cage, you need to stop swigging whatever suckerade you've gotten your hands on, because lately you are box office poison. You managed to deal Neil LaBute a raw hand when you two did The Wicker Man and turned it into an unintentional comedy, no one saw your Indiana Jones rip-off National Treasure series, and now your newest star vehicle, Bangkok Dangerous, placed number one in the box office with a dismal $7.9 million this weekend, making it officially the worst fall season opening since 2001.

In defense of the overdone standing O
Standing ovations may be common in Seattle — but that's no reason to sit on your hands.

Steve Aoki’s BBC Essential Mix
If you’re not familiar with celebrity DJ Steve Aoki, you’re missing out. He’s partially embraced by scenesters, and partially dismissed by just as many. Label owner, and heir to the Benihana fortune (Aoki’s father started the Japanese restaurant chain), he’s been landing gigs as far-reaching as Ibiza and local as Manhattan for years now. His first album release Pillowface and his Airplane Chronicles was a hit (and a personal workout favorite of mine), and he hasn’t lef