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This Week In Food: Craft Beer Week, Bluth's Traveling Banana Stand, and MTV Being Dumb

Well howdy-do, and welcome to another week in food. This time around, Edwin reviewed Black Trumpet Bistro in Huntington Beach, and then he gave us the restaurant roll call for April. He announced the opening of Tootsie - a cute ice cream shop in Santa Ana. And last, he told us that MTV will soon ha ... More >>

MTV Casting For Its Own Food Reality Show

It can be argued that MTV's The Real World started the whole put-strangers-together-in-a-house-and-see-what-happens gimmick of just about every reality show we see today, including Bravo's Top Chef. Now MTV is casting for its own food show, where, wait for it, they'll have strangers living in a hous ... More >>

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Top Five Unforgettable MTV Duos

This week, MTV premiered its new show "Nikki & Sara LIVE." A fun skewering of pop culture, the show continues in the tradition of razor-sharp wit and disarming charm from buddy-outings that has brought some of the most fun moment of original programming for almost the channel's entire existence. Bei ... More >>

Top Five Most Memorable MTV Films

Today marks the release of Pitch Perfect, a youthful music-centric comedy that you may be surprised to know ISN'T being released by MTV Films. Yes, despite the absurdly heavy cross-promotion on the network and the story of competing college acapella groups being perfect for the imprint, the movie so ... More >>

The MTV Video Music Awards' Five Most Iconic Performances

See Also: *Five Unexpected Cover Songs From Insane Clown Posse*Five Artists (Besides Lil Wayne) Who Think New York Sucks*Monday Night Raw's Six Most Memorable Music MomentsTomorrow night is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. For fans of music videos, it's the most wonderful time of the year--a ti ... More >>

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Young The Giant at the Observatory Last Friday Night

Daniel Kohn​Young The Giant The Observatory (formerly the Galaxy Theatre) 12/16/11 Last Friday night's gig at the Observatory in Santa Ana was a victory lap of sorts for Young The Giant. A successful 2011 saw the Irvine-based quintet tour across the globe (including many of the country's huge fes ... More >>

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Lady Gaga's Official 'You and I' Video Leaked! [WATCH]

​ So Lady Gaga's latest video, "Yoü and I," is supposed to premiere on Thursday night on MTV (and a link to the video as her 1,000th tweet) but already, it's leaked all over the internet. The fourth video from her sophomore release Born This Way, it was filmed in Nebraska. There are the requisite ... More >>

Top 5 Defining MTV Moments (If You Were A Teen In The '90s)

​ Most people who grew up in the early '80s were lucky enough to witness MTV's revolutionary images but for many of us, who were just in grade school at the time, the cutting-edge visuals that appeared before us were too conceptual for us to comprehend. It wasn't until the early '90s (when we ... More >>

Happy Birthday MTV: Top Five MTV Reality Shows

​MTV is officially old -- the company turns 30 (ew) on Monday. For the anniversary of first (and most popular) music television channel in the U.S., we're counting down the Top Five MTV reality shows after the jump.

Lil Wayne Flirts With Retirement, Nicki Minaj Gets Hit in the Face With a Suitcase

by minusbaby​Needless to say, it hasn't been a good week for Young Money Entertainment.We all know how notoriously noncommittal rappers can be about retirement (read: Jay-Z) but Lil Wayne has been flirting with the idea for a while--according to MTV, he announced during a radio interview with Ho ... More >>

We Are the Arsenal Are Big in Fullerton

[Locals Only] Next up: The world

The Ready Set Explains His Stage Name: 'It Means Being Ready to Set Your Inhibitions and Fears Behind You'

Roberto ChamorroThe Ready Set​If you're a white-dude pop artist not named Justin Bieber, you need a band name-like moniker, like Owl City (Adam Young) or Never Shout Never (Drew Ingle). Hence, The Ready Set, aka Jordan Witzigreuter. The 21-year-old from Fort Wayne, Ind. had an ubiquitous pop ra ... More >>

'Beavis and Butt-Head' Return to MTV This Year

​​It's true. Creator Mike Judge's animated series is returning to MTV later this year. The network announced on Wednesay that Beavis and Butt-Head will return with all-new episodes after a 14-year hiatus. Judge will provide the voices for both characters. Exciting, right?

Reality Series Follows Football Team At Long Beach Poly High School

Current TV​In a new docuseries, Current TV tackles high school football. 4th and Forever follows the team at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which has a backstory that's very afterschool special. The synopsis:     California's Long Beach Poly High School has sent more players to the ... More >>

E-Fame and E-Fortune: E-Fun, But Also E-Weird

[Trendzilla] Some of us are glad our teenage fashion choices aren't cached somewhere forever

Life Could Be a Dream

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Westminster's Poreotics Just the Latest OC Hip-Hop Crew on MTV

Courtesy of MTV​Randy Jackson Presents: America's Best Dance Crew is back for a fifth season with fresh acts battling for the top spot. The show starts off with its regional battle, where five crews from each region battle to be in the top three, and then the nine crews (separated into three regio ... More >>

Christmas Video Classics: 'Christmas in Hollis,' Run-D.M.C.

Run D.M.C. dropped this chestnut back in 1987 on the must-own A Very Special Christmas, which also features choice tracks by U2, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and others. Two decades later, "Christmas in Hollis" remains the definitive hip-hop track to play during the holidays. Dig the golden-era-of-MTV ... More >>

[Locals Only] Stereofix and Their Catchy Modern Rock Head to Detroit Bar for a December Residency

MTV Chooses Huntington Beach for Next Season of Real World?

As tipped off by our craft blogger/KROQ listener Steph Calvert: This morning, KROQ's Kevin & Bean entertainment report stated that MTV's 24th (seriously! Twenty-four!) season of the Real World will be set in Huntington Beach.Wat.​Though we're having some issues tracking anything down to confir ... More >>

MTV's 'The State' Finally on DVD!

From 1993 to 1995 MTV aired a sketch comedy show called The State, which launched the careers of future comic superstars--er, stars--Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, David Wain (the three awesome dudes from Stella) and Reno 911's Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant and Kerri Kenney. (Not to mention Ken M ... More >>

What You Missed: Shwayze, Sutra's Freedom Party and Newport Dunes

We know, we know--there's nothing more damn depressing than the end of a long holiday weekend. And it was a pretty perfect one at that: Sunshine, 80-something-degree weather, a cloudless sky. And now we're back to sunshine and 80-something-degree weather... but from behind your computer screen and y ... More >>

Before it Gets Old: Cold War Kids Interactive Music Video

Okay, so there's plenty of reasons to be a jaded Cold War Kids fan in the OC these days. Besides getting plenty of ink from hipsteratti media outlets (including this one) and praise for just about everything they do from an ever growing fan base world wide, they haven't been that "super underground ... More >>

Videos come back to MTV

Well, kinda...For those who can stay up late, MTV has announced a novel concept called AMTV. The show, which airs from 3-9 a.m. Monday through Thursday, does nothing but air music videos for six hours. Call me crazy, but this might be the start of something new. I mean, I could even see this expandi ... More >>

50 Cent, Fall Out Boy, to Headline Bamboozle Left

We talked about the Bamboozle Left lineup a couple of weeks ago, but something seemed to be missing--namely, headliners. It's a situation that's been remedied through an announcement via Live Nation today: We've got Fall Out Boy (pictured) on Saturday, April 4, and 50 Cent on Sunday, April 5. FOB ma ... More >>

Sex on the Beach ... With Mom and Dad?

A local mom is pissed that her daughter was recently approached at Huntington Beach Pier by MTV staffers looking for teens to appear on Sex … with Mom and Dad, which has so shocked the executive director of the Downtown Business Improvement District that she plans to take the matter up with the Ci ... More >>

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Kaba Modern to Perform at the VMA Pre-Show

Though UC Irvine-based hip-hop dance troupe only placed a disappointing third (when evvveryone knew they should have at least been second—c'mon America!) in the debut season of MTV's Best American Dance Crew, they're back for another competition: The chance to present at Sunday's Video Music Awar ... More >>

Snoopermarkets?

In an interview with MTV, famed Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg shared a few of his New Year's resolutions with the kids. No, he's not talking about leaving his weapons and/or marijuana at home before he tries to board airplanes, and no, he's not promising to finally release a rap album that doesn't to ... More >>

Kanye Throws a Hissy Fit

Nominated for 5 moon men at the MTV Awards held Sunday, Mr. West did not win any of them. This tantrum ensued: Kanye threatens never to return to MTV. Oh, puh-leese! We all know that statement's as empty as 50's threat to retire.

MTV says it puts Newport High males "in the hole"

Matt Coker, our beloved ex-colleague who is now editor at the Sacramento News & Review, couldn't hide his contempt for MTV's world-(in)famous Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. I'd swear his right eye would uncontrollably twitch at the mention of it. The last season of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Re ... More >>

FOX seeks OC bar confessions!

Southern California's reputation for shallow lives will be enhanced this summer by the Fox Reality Channel. Go Go Luckey Productions (producer of Laguna Beach on MTV) says it plans to place private "confessional booths" in several So Cal bars including the lovely Mosun in Laguna Beach, Anaheim's J.C ... More >>

CD Review

The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound, Ekranoplan, Tee Pee Records

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WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Crossing over: whos doing it, whos not

Thank You, Jann Wenner

Last year, the heads of the Literary Journalism Program at UCI sent out an email regarding an internship opportunity with Rolling Stone. That tempted me for about two seconds. Then I realized that it was Rolling Stone and that MTV Networks was slated to turn the whole thing into some awful reality p ... More >>

Laguna Beach For Real

Kudos to Laguna Beach High School for beating out every other high school in Orange County in the one arena that really matters: alcohol and drug abuse. A California Healthy Families survey claims that LBHS juniors score highest count-wide at getting high (at least, on marijuana and alcohol). Parent ... More >>

Unreal City: Laguna Beach

If you're someone who wants to visit Laguna Beach, but is so filled with inertia that you can't be bothered to step outside your front door, there's good news-- MTV is here to help. MTV, which has already had great success in reducing Laguna Beach to nothing more than a gaggle of impressively self- ... More >>

Timothy Leary Meets the Muppets

Wonder Showzen is back. Be afraid. Be very afraid

Pretty Vacant

MTV goes from polluting to numbing minds with Laguna Beach

I Think I Lost the Music

Does my MTV want me?

The Day the World Didnt Change

NFL, Laguna Beach, America are shocked by MTV

A New Found Glory Hole

Fear the smoking police!

Getting More Retail than Sinatra

Letters

Ruby Diver Doesn't Make MTV's The Cut

And that's a very, very good thing