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As a loyal fan of Bravo’s Top Chef, I’m equal parts psyched for next week’s finale and bummed that it’s already at an end. The final three chefs are Carla, an awesomely emu-like Washingtonian who makes all her food with love; Stefan, a Finnish badass who can skin an eel like he’s peeling a [...]

Leave it to the Brits to make you feel sort of okay with the fact that there are people who fall in love and have sex with bridges, fences and carnival rides:
Watch Married To The Eiffel Tower [Part 1]  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
As well as sex dolls:
And cars:
Watch Strangelove - My Car Is [...]

Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is also an idiot.
In his latest bit of commentary for CNN.com, he criticizes some of the excess spending that the Democrats have tacked on to the $819 billion economic stimulus bill.
I’d [...]

What I’d really like to do is write a big gushy post about how much I love Bruce Springsteen, but I’ll spare you. Instead I will simply offer up the song he wrote for the Mickey Rourke star vehicle The Wrestler. It’s classic Bruce, aka great. It also won a Golden Globe [...]

Selling more tickets than you actually have available is common practice for the airline industry, because usually not everybody shows up. (Although I was thisclose to being stranded alone in Amsterdam one day last March because for once, everybody did.) It kind of sucks, but sometimes you can get a free upgrade to [...]

Official details about the Amy Poehler Office-spinoff-that-really-isn’t-a-spinoff have finally been revealed:
The documentary cameras follow Leslie Knope (Poehler), a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana. In an attempt to beautify her town—and advance her career—Leslie takes on what should be a fairly simple project: help local nurse Ann Logan (Rashida Jones) [...]

Seriously. How is this not considered the greatest song of the 20th century???

For someone who’s rather disorganized, I really like lists. I like making them, and I like reading them. So when the end of each calendar year approaches, I get very excited about all the “Best of” lists that I know are waiting in the wings for publication.
And 2008 has not let me down! [...]

Speaking of 1980s cesspool New York: Star Magazine, that bastion of journalistic integrity, has the exclusive deets on the oft-rumored Gossip Girl spinoff. And no, we won’t be following young Jenny Humphrey to boarding school (which I always said would never happen anyway, because everybody hates Jenny.)
No, the true premise of the spinoff is [...]

Generally speaking, HBO deserves the praise it gets for quality programming.  Of course, there are both hits and misses.  (Remember John from Cincinnati?  No?  Keep it that way.)  But even when your favorite show has an off episode every now and then, there is one thing you know will be awesome every single week: the [...]