Perhaps it’s the laid back spirit of skateboarding itself that makes most of films about the sub-culture enjoyable viewing. Or perhaps because many of the fictional tales feature actual skateboarders in the lead roles and not professional actors, the films feel raw and real while other sports movies fall short. Like rock stars, skaters are [...]

It might not sound like the ultimate vacation to you, but one of these years we’re going pack up the entire staff of YuppiePunk World HQ and head to Toronto for ten days of Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary film festival. Everyone knows Canadians are awesome. They’re just like Americans, only nicer and with [...]

Admittedly Starz isn’t the most well known cable network on the dial, but they’re slowly hoping to change that. If AMC can find themselves on the scripted TV map thanks to quality offerings like “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” why not Starz? In the fall, they launched the drama “Crash,” starring Dennis Hopper, based on [...]

Your teenage years most likely went one of two ways: You were either the star quarterback who dated the head cheerleader, thereby peaking socially at the ripe old age of 17. Or you had a bad haircut and were hideously socially awkward, biding your time until you moved away for college where you prayed you’d [...]

Don’t get us wrong, Danny Gokey on this season’s “American Idol” has one of the best voices and best chances of winning the show. But sweet jesus he has bad taste in shirtwear. We can hang with his collection of wide-armed rectangular plastic glasses, but the dude’s penchant for t-shirts and button-ups with artsy prints [...]

Things you probably knew Dr. Drew liked: Rehab, weightlifting, medicine, Adam Carrolla, sobriety, television, Pasadena, glasses, Loveline, Shifty.
Things you probably didn’t know Dr. Drew liked: Slayer, Satan, blood, death, Death, goatse, headbanging, “Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious,” The Melvins…

Mark Ryden is an American painter and perhaps the most successful artist of the so-called lowbrow art movement which emerged from Southern California in the late 1970s on the backs of Robert Williams, Gary Panter and eventually Juxtapoz magazine. Ryden’s work is both surreal and realistic thanks to his masterful skills as a painter. His [...]