Howard Stern

By El Bicho Kenneth Keith Kallenbach - American Icon is essentially 90 minutes of cable access programming. There’s little to no production value. During his interview, the set is dressed with a chair, a tree, and a black sleeping bag as a backdrop. It’s hard to watch the whole DVD in one setting and only...

By Zade Last week, Sanjaya's surprise appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno followed hot on the heels of Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi's brilliant Partial-Birth Abortion skit ("America Decides") on The Daily Show about his being voted off American Idol. One was relieved to see the kid stil...

By Zade Clearly, many people have picked up on the perpetually and perennially boorish Simon Cowell's special animosity towards the kid, since he never bothered to disguise it, except in being careful, after Sanjaya's not-so-CBGB downfall, not to emphasize "American" when he said, "Based o...

By Jewels Richardson Sanjaya Malakar, my Little Engine That Could, ran out of track on American Idol's country theme week. Country music theme week can be a daunting week for many contestants, including Taylor Hicks, who suffered a close call during this theme week last year. It proved the undoing of Sanjaya. Th...

By Daryl D I don’t have much use for Don Imus. In fact, he looks like a zombie, talks like goat, and his attempts at humor fail more then they succeed. But the backlash he’s received from referring to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hoes" is not only hypocritical, it’s d...

By Jewels Richardson Sanjaya Malakar's crazy, yet cool for its wild abandon, performance this week on Idol, certainly was a buzz-worthy endeavor on the young contestant's part. I admit this because I can be truly pathetic, but I was cheering like Sanjaya had won the Superbowl of Idol, when he broke free of his f...

By Jewels Richardson He is one of the most talked about controversial contestants this year, attributed with attracting some strong alliances in Vote For The Worst and Sirius satellite's Shock Jock, Howard Stern. Stern's been drawn into this fray because he hates American Idol, plus discounting how deroga...

By Jewels Richardson Sanjaya Malakar is facing, most likely, one of his biggest performance challenges on American Idol 6. This next week's show determines who gets to join the Idol tour or simply go home. I've dubbed Sanjaya "The Little Engine That Could" after that famous children's story about the small tra...

By Craig Lyndall Yesterday on Howard Stern's show, Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin talked about the future for a merged satellite radio company. While he didn't say Opie's and Anthony's names directly, he might as well have. The topic of conversation turned to satellite radio programs that are on both regular rad...

By Dawn Olsen Serial rapist and child pornographer Joe Francis, the gajillionaire smut peddler behind the Girls Gone Wild videos, called into the Howard Stern show yesterday to discuss the lawsuit Paris Hilton has pending against the purveyors of the ParisExposed.com website. (Sadly, no longer ava...

By Glen Boyd Much as I still despise the idea of having to pay for radio, I may just be looking into Sirius after hearing this week's free broadcast. In addition to Stern himself, the two Howard channels also feature post Nipplegate terrestrial radio casualties like pro-wrestling mark Bubba the Love S...

By Roy Trakin Entourage (HBO)After viewing the first three episodes, I can see the series continuing to come into its own, with the zeitgeist not just catching up to this trendy Hollywood satire, but zooming right past it. Is it because the show itself has sweetened – the first episode featured Vincent...

By Roy Trakin Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way (Open Wide/Columbia)“It turned my whole world around,” sings Natalie Maines in “Not Ready to Make Nice,” the Texas trio’s defiant anthem about the backlash following her anti-Bush jibe in London. “And I kind of like it.” Indeed, what’s not to like, especi...

By Roy Trakin The Sopranos/Big Love/HuffThe three best hours on television, and a whole lot better than anything you might see in your local multiplex these days, too. HBO's bellwether series, in its sixth and final season, had its best episode yet last week, touching on such hot-button topics as Holl...

By Tom Bux I woke up early today and listened to Howard Stern's first (official) broadcast on Sirius satellite radio. It was very exciting. As someone who loves radio. I have to say I am excited about Stern's debut. It wasn't without problems, there were some glitches, and for the first time in years he ha...

By Matt Freelove In less than a week, one of the greatest radio careers ever will end one journey and begin another. Howard Stern, nemesis of the prudish and faint of heart, will leave New York's WXRK, and a large syndicated network spanning the country, to begin broadcasting on Sirius satellite Radio in Ja...