We at C-VILLE like to give our little birds that have flown props when those little birds land, as they sometimes do, on wire worth noting. Former C-VILLE music writer and online editor John Ruscher, also the founder of Nailgun Media, flew the coop after spending over more than a year writing nerdy-but-still-cool reviews, columns, […]

In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll say right now that while I am not in the habit of plugging my friends’ websites (if my memory serves me correctly, in all the years I’ve been writing these 300 words per week, I have never done so), I’m going to break with tradition here and make […]

So, apparently some nerds at the University of Nottingham convinced someone out there to give them a grant to make YouTube videos about the Periodic Table called Periodic Videos—one YouTube video about each element on the Periodic Table. The results, let me tell you, are grant money gone to excellent use. Picture this: An older […]

So, there’s no question that people have begun freaking out. I was talking to my dad on the phone the other day and when I asked him how he was doing, he answered my question by saying simply, “I’m worried about Obama, Nell.” I tried to cheer him up by saying that there’s still time—that […]

There’s nothing like some good house porn. Flipping through the pages of Dwell or Cottage Living or scrolling through DesignSponge or Apartment Therapy is just as fantasy-inducing as I’ve heard the other more controversial forms of porn can be. I had begun to believe that I had exhausted the house porn world library in terms […]

For me and, I am sure, for millions out there like me, Woody Allen’s movies have long served as confirmation that the neurotic thoughts running through our minds like a ticker at the bottom of a TV screen are not a lonely affliction—that they are not associated with a private screening, but rather with some […]

The public debate that pitted the suits against the street kids in an argument about whether or not graffiti art is, well, “art,” has long since been settled—it is, deal with it—but the recent unmasking of the graffiti-artist-to-the-stars, bona fide celebrity and truly talented Banksy has brought graffiti art back into the headlines for a […]

Self-help is no new idea. God knows, the self-help section at Barnes & Noble is bigger than the poetry section and, about 30 percent of both mine and half my friends’ conversations begin with the phrase (go ahead, roll your eyes), “So, I was talking to my therapist about this the other day and she […]

It should come as no news to anyone that people are crazy about their pets, and that such craziness often manifests itself in hilarious and adorable ways on the Internet. Keep in mind that in this context I intend the word “crazy” to be a good thing—an endearing quality all humans should exhibit when it […]

Maybe I’ve been watching too much TV lately, but all those JC Penney commercials have me itching for some back-to-school basics. (Please keep in mind that I have not fallen into the JC Penney back-to-school marketing demographic for over 10 years.) Plus, a little fall shopping is good for the soul; it keeps you young […]