With all of these new television series and seasons, it is hard to determine what is worth watching and what is not.
Unabashed and carefree. These are the two words that most succinctly describe the Welsh septet Los Campesinos!
As fourth-year students, nostalgia comes easy for Campbell and I - give us a minute and we can drone on about the triumphs and turmoils of our past four years at U.Va.
The Amazon Kindle, first released in 2007, was prophesied to revolutionize the book industry and mark the transformation from print to e-book.
The Kanye incident, the Country Music Awards Entertainer of the Year, remarkable album sales, constant radio play, celebrity boyfriends and cute, too - this is the life of the one and only Taylor Swift.
Looking for a pleasing, romantic comedy starring Kristen Bell? You are better off renting Forgetting Sarah Marshall than coughing up $10 to sit through When In Rome.
Mass Effect 2, from developer BioWare, is the sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed hit. A third-person shooter framed in classic BioWare role play, Mass Effect 2 places as much emphasis on plot and character development as it does on shooting mechanics.
It's that time of the year again, when I'm wrestling myself out of a movie-going coma and somehow getting in shape for class.
Editor's Picks of the millenium thus far: Albums: Funeral - Arcade Fire (2004) The Blueprint - Jay-Z (2001) Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective (2009) The Gllow, Pt.
Consider for a moment some of the most influential scripted TV comedies of the past decade. Arrested Development is an intricately woven arras of absurdity and double entendres.
Becca Fitzpatrick's debut novel Hush, Hush has several things going for it at first glance. First, the title - it rolls off the tongue and elicits mystery and darkness.
Sometimes, bands get noticed because of what their members do afterward rather than anything they did while the band was together.
MTV has done reality TV before. We've all heard of the term "guido." Most of us have seen the YouTube viral video "My New Haircut" and laughed out loud (or "lol'd"). So the real question is this: what took MTV so long to put two and two together? Regardless of how long this thing was in development, Jersey Shore is a runaway smash hit.
Very seldom do I find myself in the position of revisiting a band after it fails to impress me. In keeping in the spirit of the new decade, however, I've decided to wipe the slate somewhat clean and give new music from these folks a chance, and the first act on my list of acts to revisit is Vampire Weekend. Given my total ambivalence toward the band's self-titled (and overrated) debut and utter hatred for keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij's side project, Discovery, I was quite ready to pile a heap of negativity on top of Vampire Weekend's latest release, Contra.
Editor's Picks of the millenium thus far: Albums: Discovery - Daft Punk (2001) Kid A - Radiohead (2000) Since I Left You - The Avalanches (2000) Illinois - Sufjan Stevens (2005)
Flipping through one or two ad-ridden forum pages, it's surprising how quickly you can encounter a comment that seems simply out of the realm of comprehension.
The dawn of a new year tends to spawn a whole host of lists and previews of the most anticipated this or that.
So you spent all your hard-earned money buying gifts for other people this holiday season, did you? Well, have no fear.
It is fitting that one of the more humorous Facebook relationship statuses also titles a film that was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical award.
