Post by Alison McNeill and video by Miiko Mentz The Bubby award train makes its next stop at Patricia Handschiegel. We presented Patricia with the award for “Kick-Ass Female and Best Laugh� at the recent Twiistup 5 event in Santa Monica. If you missed our highlight reel or the first two stops on...

According to a new report from Rider Research, the number of U.S. pay-TV subscribers grew by 362,000 in the fourth quarter of 2008. These numbers show a flight by traditional cable subscribers to new fiber offerings from Verizon FiOS and AT&T. From the release: As a group, the telephone companie...

Why are there radio stations aimed at kids? Dallas Morning News, TXCrunch Gear has an amusing post about plans to transform one New York radio station from a rock format to a pop format. The folks who own the radio station say the new format will provide "young adults" with a venue to "discover...

Jonah Keri has covered baseball, college basketball and other sports for a number of publications, including ESPN.com, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Penthouse, and Baseball Prospectus. He also writes the flagship stock market column for Investor's Business Daily, called "The Big Pictu...

PITTSBURGH -- Just got back from lunch with the radio and television voices of the Panthers, a rare day in which all of us had some variation of the same salad. Yes, we're in Pittsburgh -- home of really tasty vittles -- and we ate salad in the hotel lobby bar. Lame. Oh. Well, Pete DeBoer took t...

(Can anyone name that tune, puddings?) On Saturday night, I invited some of my peeps out to my hood for a special little gathering that happens only once a year. "What makes this night different from all other nights?" I asked them. And their answers came back: "Indigestion;" "Epic Bowel Movements;"...

image ID#25025 Was invited to Singapore to give a few talks. One was for Promax BDA (article here) and the other was for a blogger workshop with Animax. Spent about a week in Singapore and loved it. People were great and the food was too scrumptious for words. image ID#25026 The whole island seemed ...

Daily Twitterings: 08:42 Snow? Really? Wasn’t it 50-something yesterday? # 12:22 how the hell is it almost 12:30? # 13:49 we’ve lived at this address for 3 weeks and we’re already getting junk mail for Dish Network? Really? # 20:36 I was wrong: the Souther NH library system is mile...

Choosing between cable and satellite television requires careful comparison of many different factors. For instance, each type of company offers different programming packages and different levels of access to programming. Price is also another huge difference between the two types of companies. Tho...

It’s hard to believe that just one week ago it was snowing here. It soared into the mid to upper 70s this weekend – a perfect setting for the Exceptional Foundation’s annual chili cook-off. We had never been for some reason but had heard thousands of people turn out to our small Homewood Park ...