As a nice break from Googling "Simpsons' Characters" on the Internet and ending up on some weird porn site, Milan-based artist Alexsandro Palombo has taken a stab at turning our beloved Homer and Marge into more classy representations of themselves.
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Having already received their Taiwanese animated reenactment, it was only a matter of time before the hot mess that is Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark's epic screw ups received a larger pop culture callback. Last night, The Simpsons aired their yearly "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween episode, which included a not-at-all-subtle slam on the show's troubled Broadway production. The producers officially responded this morning, and of course—as is the case with any Broadway producer—are using the wildly insulting lampooning for a press moment. Read More
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Because of his successful style, Frank Gehry sometimes comes under criticism for being a hack whose buildings all look the same—even if in their 50th iteration, those waving bands of metal still look amazing, fresh and different. This sensibility was, like so many other things, immortalized on The Simpsons, in which Mr. Gehry was perhaps the first and only architect to ever make a guest appearance—an appearance that still haunts him to this day. Read More
Next Media Animation has never missed an opportunity to turn a marginally important news event into cheap-looking -- but hilarious -- computer animated interpretations. But with "The Simpsons" relevant again thanks to its back-and-forth fighting with Fox News, the CGI news satirists have gone meta and chosen to include a cartoon in its Read More
The Webby Awards just announced their nominees for their 13th annual awards show. No surprise that NYTimes.com got 13 nominations, including the "Newspaper" category (The New York Observer was also nominated, along with the UK's The Guardian and The Independent). NBC.com and TheOnion.com also received multiple nods, Read More
7 p.m. The School of American Ballet will celebrate its 75th anniversary at Winter Ball, David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street. Individual ticket prices are $2,500; $1,500; $1,000; young patron tickets are $300. 7 p.m. Gay Men's Health Crisis hosts Savor, an annual four-course "New American dinner" Read More
File this under "news you would have loved to hear when you were in 8th grade." Fox has picked up The Simpsons for two more seasons, bringing the series’ total number to 22. With this move, Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie will become a part of the longest-running scripted primetime show in television Read More
Here's one more tribute to John Updike, who died yesterday at the age of 76: "Insane Clown Poppy," The Simpsons episode in which Mr. Updike made a cameo (along with Tom Wolfe, Stephen King, and Amy Tan).
In the book Updike in Cincinnati (Ohio University Press, 2007), the author explains how Read More
There's got to be a clever pun about crossovers here somewhere.
Will Shortz, The New York Times crosswords editor who recently promised to donate his 20,000 puzzle books to Indiana University, will be appearing in this week's episode of The Simpsons (along with prolific puzzle maker Merl Reagle, according to The Hartford Courant's Read More
Unless you're like the Comic Book Guy, you probably don't even realize The Simpsons is still on the air. That's okay we barely remembered either! It's not that we aren't fans; when push comes to shove, we'd still say we love The Simpsons. It's just that but we haven't watched a new episode in Read More
So, apparently the top actors who do the voices on The Simpsons get paid nearly $400,000 per episode under their new contract! This from Reuters via The Hollywood Reporter, which brings us news this morning that after months of negotiations, the standoff between the cast of the long-running animated series and Twentieth Century Read More
The People's Choice Awards (a.k.a. the most meaningless of awards ceremonies) aired last night, although nobody watched it and actors received their awards like they were pox-diseased blankets from the pilgrims. Because celebrities refuse to cross the Writers Guild of America's picket lines, a "newsmagazine" version of the original ceremony aired. "Host" Queen Latifah giddily Read More
For six years starting in 2000, Mr. Kalina, now 27, took a digital photograph of himself every day. He then compiled the pictures chronologically and created a short movie of the gallery, Everyday, accompanied Read More
Today is Simpsonfest in Manhattan. Fox has painted the town yellow to promote the DVD release of the big screen version of their television show. Anyone in Midtown will find it difficult to miss the yellow-jacketed street teams, the "Simpsons on Ice" show at Bryant Park, the giant inflatable Homers and the Empire State Building Read More
