The Deepness in the Shallow Pleasure of Gossip Girl.
In a world that has become superficiality first and morality and good ethics second, are what we view on the television screen as a source of entertainment, the new semblance of our selves? An all too common sight we...
Wall of Sound
U2 is a politically conscious band. This has been their thing for a while now and this is the thing that really puts the ironic spin on an otherwise ordinarily ridiculous situation. In Berlin, Germany, to celebrate the 20th...
Is Miley Cyrus Becoming an Ungrateful Brat already?
In dire need of genre clarification.
Miley Cyrus was recently interviewed where she admitted that she never heard a Jay-Z song before in her life, despite the lyrics in her "Party in the USA" track that claim ...
The Fame Game: How the Noughties Have Changed the Face of Celebrity.
As difficult as it may be to imagine, I remain confident that there was once a time when children grew up with the aspiration to be something other than ‘famous’. It seems so far-fetched that at times I have...
Hiding from the lights: What life as a vampire is really like for Robert Pattinson.
Poor old Robert Pattinson. He's learning what life is like when you can't go out in the day time for fear of being recognized for what you really are - the world's favorite teenage vampire.
No, really, I actually do...
LA Fashion Week. Strutting the planks…a recap.
LA Fashion week closed October 31st 2009. Even though that date gave license to some scantily clad holiday behavior it also gave pause to how far the scene had finally had come and had yet to go. Then again...
Starbucks wants you to think it’s Christmas already.
Getting you to believe in myths that generate revenue. Making lots of money in America.
Starbucks is in the business of making money and it has figured out a swell idea to get you to spend more money- by making...
The etiquette of sharing drugs. A ten step plan on how to snort.
Staying high in America.
In case you didn’t know, doing drugs is an important aspect of contemporary life in America. This includes all the blunts you smoke, the crystal you blast, and all the valium you kick back. Of course,...
Lilo and papa. How to save the family that can’t save itself.
Tweeting that daddy is a loser.
It’s a rare instance when families take their dirty laundry out and air it publicly. Things of course don’t work that way when you are a public figure whose very existence and pay check...
Violence in Florida. Watching the country engage in mass madness.
Trying to understand our love affair with mass shootings.
It’s been a horrific back to back last couple of days with the country erupting in mass shooting sprees that are leaving people dead and injured in the most random absurd...
Three days a year that you won’t get back – how facebook is eating up your time
I have been wondering lately exactly what it was that I did with the spare minutes of my day before facebook sprang into my consciousness.
I am more than a little concerned to find that I quite simply don't remember....
NYPD Felon. No longer an oxymoron.
Bernard Kerik becomes the first NYPD commissioner in over 100 years to admit to committing a felony.
We here at Scallywag are less dedicated to breaking the news to you than we are to showing our utter disgust for it....
Education with an Indian Spin: ASHA Hosts Its 15th Annual Fundraiser.
Heaving with laughter, Michael Dobrovolsky – Muscovite by birth, New Yorker by choice – knocks over his glass of merlot. He apologizes for the spill.
“You Brighton Beach only like because it’s exotic,” he says. True. Compared to the...
The Dirty business of a Hollywood writer.
The screenwriter is the lowest primordial goo of the Hollywood food chain. It's actually a hell realm reserved for karmically challenged individuals who clearly did terrible things in their past lives. Anyone attempting to become a "screen writer" in...
Retina Overload— the Photography of Scott Alger.
"One-one thousand, two-one thousand," Scott Alger counts time as he shines a bright yellow light in the face of a frozen Juliet. He is in the middle of composing his first of twelve photographs in a set depicting the...
