So you’re hard up for gift ideas this year, like you are every year, because ‘tis the season to stress over who gets what on your holiday list. You don’t know what anyone wants, so shopping sucks. You want to look like you’ve put some thought into it, so cash…
Recently, caffeine juggernaut Starbucks rolled out plans to start selling alcohol in many of its stores (and they’re not alone, as evidenced by our recent look at Denver’s best coffeehouses with booze). But wine and beer aren’t the only side products the company has dabbled in: The jolly bean giant…
Last week we brought you a list of the of the manliest candies — those sweets that prove the presence of cojones of some sort or another. In honor of the most grateful day in American culture, we now present readers with a Thanksgiving edition. (You’re welcome.) To serve your family the…
Let’s face it: Sometimes you’re all by yourself. Maybe you’ve just suffered a break-up, and everyone else is still paired up. Maybe your family is an airplane ride away that you know you’re going to take in December anyway, and going to all that trouble for one meal just doesn’t…
Next week, we’ll all be strapping on the holiday feed-bag and gluttonously consuming as many calories as we can fit over our belts before we pass out on the nearest empty couch, listening to the low gurgle of one meal taking approximately 1.3 months off our expected lifespans. And the…
In the most recent Esquire, Chris Jones extols the virtues of Jujubes, calling them “the only candy a man should eat.” This, of course, is utter bullshit, as are his claims that they should be pronounced “joo-joobs,” which is only slightly less precious than referring to Target as “Tar-zhay.” Jujubes…
Lindsay Lohan may or may not go to prison (again) because she may or may not have assaulted a staff member of the rehab facility she’s staying in. Her parents must be so proud. Oh, wait…never mind. Lohan, whose music career was brief and mostly predicated upon cleavage, joins a…
So we’re well into the Christmas season, and chances are good you’re getting a bit tired of Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby and the Time-Life Christmas collection in general. What had been a charming return to familiar holiday standards — and perhaps the only reason to voluntarily listen to…
Let’s face it: At some point during this holiday season, you’re going to need a drink. And when you arrive at the bar, you’re probably going to be near-frozen, because, you know, it’s winter — the time of year, when, so sings the song, the weather can be downright “frightful.”…
Rest in peace, Irvin Kershner, you director of RoboCop 2 and some film called The Empire Strikes Back. Born in 1923, he died over the weekend at the age of 87 and left behind an oeuvre of great filmmaking — including no small number of sequels. So it makes sense…
What with the Food Network and the proliferation of culinary personalities all over the place, do you ever wonder what those folks might do in a zombie apocalypse? They’d die, of course. And then become zombies themselves. But what then? They’d do what they’ve always done, obviously. They’d annoy the…
So October (or Monstober, if you’re into annoying nicknames) is the month of monsters, when we take an evening to support kids in dressing up like their favorite killing beast and threaten neighbors for candy, and adults in dressing like sexualized versions of traditional nightmares at parties. So it makes…
Okay, so you’re high. And you’ve got the munchies. And this is October, so there’s candy everywhere at the store. So you grab a bag of fun-sized fun, and you take it home to the buds with whom you share your bud. And you enjoy the candy, of course, but…
American Idol has been around for eight years and going on ten seasons. And really, anything has a natural life span, and television shows, for the most part, live theirs in close to dog years. Like Great Dane years. Which means, essentially, that American Idol is long in the tooth…
Granted, chili is something of a sacred thing — and the nature of that sacredness varies, depending on where you were brought up, and what your grandma ladled into a bowl. Still, there are some things that you can do to chili that seem like anathema, whether or not you…
A couple of years back, we covered some of TV’s worst theme songs, but the list was just too long not to revisit. In honor of the new TV season, let’s take a second look at more of the worst that TV theme songs have had to offer over the…
Television shows tend to be set on the coasts — in California or New York, usually. Anywhere else, and the show is often about that place as much as the characters: Miami in Miami Vice, Cleveland in The Drew Carey Show, or Cicely, Alaska, in Northern Exposure. So it is…
Some people are scared of Barbie and her seemingly anti-feminist position in pop culture. And those people are just plain terrified of Bratz dolls and their big-eyed whorishness. But some dolls… some dolls aren’t disturbing because of your social views, or for reasons having to do with the ways you…
Let’s be real for a moment: being a kid is dangerous business. You could swerve that two-wheeler into traffic, or fall out of that tree you’re climbing, or fly that kite into a power line. Just about everything that a kid does over the course of an average day is…
What’s for dinner? Whatever the answer, it’s probably got an ethnic origin–or a supposedly ethnic origin. Because many of the foreign foods that we all enjoy aren’t really very foreign at all. In other words, you can cross these ten dishes off your list, because, frankly, they’re all just as…
Marketing stuff to kids is pretty easy — which is why the government prevented tobacco companies from doing it — even subtly, supposedly accidentally — a few years back. McDonald’s Happy Meals are the latest to feel their knuckles rapped by this particular ruler — the obesity epidemic among kids…
As important as food is to the real world, there aren’t all that many foods unique to the fictional world…which might be a very good thing, considering the inherent dangers in these following fake-foods and drinks. Some dangers are slight, others more sinister, some plain disgusting. But in the end,…
