Eating Out At Four Of TV's Best-Known Restaurants
Holsten’s in Bloomfield, New Jersey ("The Sopranos") READ MORE
A Who's Who of Sitcom Theme Song Composers
Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV… and the following Theme Song Composers? (I'm only choosing people who are still alive, because, well, the “Where Are They Now?” wouldn’t be much fun if the person’s dead.) Here's a rundown of the people who wrote and recorded the songs that kicked off everything from "Full House" to "Seinfeld" to "Clarissa Explains It All." READ MORE
America’s First Sitcom and Other Forgotten Comedies on DuMont, the Lost Network
NBC, ABC, and CBS. We remember these as the first television networks, the ones that gave us I Love Lucy, The Abbott and Costello Show, and Your Show of Shows. But there was another network that came before ABC and CBS, one that nearly originated before NBC: the long-forgotten, long-extinct DuMont Television Network. READ MORE
Cannibals Seeking Same: A Visit To The Online World Of Flesh-Eaters
While it was shut down with a Denial of Service attack by the German authorities in late 2002, the website for the Cannibal Café can still be viewed online thanks to the Wayback Machine. Nine years is an eternity when it comes to the Internet and, suspended there in history, the website is a time capsule of early website-design features and flourishes, down to a .gif of dripping blood and the flashing "WARNING" sign. Its forum messages also carry the whiff of a different era; written at a time when people, unaware and unafraid of consequences, were more open with their identities online. READ MORE
How to Handle Jeff Mangum’s All Tomorrow's Parties Set This Fall
• Remember that you’re seeing the first full-length concert in over a decade from the man behind one of the greatest albums of the '90s (if not the greatest) at the greatest music festival in the country. So, be happy. READ MORE
False Nostalgia: How VH1 Ruined the Taste of a Generation
In the period between when VH1 stopped airing music videos but before they became the home for such quality infotainment as "Glam God with Vivica A. Fox" and "Celebrity Fit Club," they were best-known for two series: "Behind the Music" and "I Love the 80s," and that show's light-history spawn. READ MORE
