“Here We Are Now, Entertain Us” (#16)

“He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he don’t know what it means…”

When We Were Young: The Best Pop Culture Of The 80s & 90s

We’ve now aired multiple episodes of the When We Were Young podcast, which means it’s officially time to start uselessly ranking things. That’s right — because I am a millennial (barely), I am obsessed with ranking things that are not terribly similar in any way, and chances are, you are obsessed with it, too. (Thanks, […]

R.e.X. featuring Lana Lovesit // “B.O.M.D. (Bitches On My Dick)”

* Bitches, dick, Jack Daniels, and Jurassic Park references, all rolled into one. *

Hard.in.the.City’s 2015 Oscars Drinking Game

No, Academy Awards drinking games are nothing new or novel, and yes, every other more reputable pop culture website has already posted one. But if I’m going to be watching the Oscars, and I’m going to be drinking, and I’m going to be playing a game, I may as well be playing my own Oscars […]

Hard In The City’s “Best Of Google” Volume 3

Happy New Year! This little blog of mine has existed for a little over three years now, and you know what? The more I blog, the more I realize what ignorant freaks the human race can be, thanks to the magic of Google. Google has helped a handful of people find my blog for perfectly […]

Famous Last Words: A Fond Farewell To The Tabloid Train Wreck

(Throwback Thursday: My final column for INsite Boston, originally published in April 2007. I still feel that I wrote this shortly after Hollywood reached a turning point; when the advent of the internet paved the way for celebrity worship to give way to schadenfreude. Sensing that, I realized I had said all that there was […]

Rearranging ‘Artpop’: An Edit Of Lady Gaga’s Latest

Oh, Lady Gaga. How far we’ve come in such a relatively short time. It was only six years ago that the name “Lady Gaga” would have sounded like nonsense, which is exactly what I thought of it when I first heard of the lady. I didn’t flip for “Just Dance” the way everybody else did […]

Hard In The City’s “Best Of Google” Volume 2

One of my many procrastination-friendly pastimes is perusing the Google searches that lead people to this very website. Sometimes people seem to come here and find exactly what they’re looking for — a music video, perhaps, or my insights on the latest Terrence Malick movie. More often, they are looking for naked pictures of somebody.

Dwindle, Dwindle, Little Stars: The Rapidly Dimming Limelight

I used to think Britney Spears was a secret genius. An auspicious debut, her famous “virginity,” the Timberlake chronicles, a well-timed smooch with Madonna — it was all so masterfully plotted, so expertly timed to keep her in the limelight. She had to be pretty crafty to map this meteoric rise to the top of […]

Daydream Believers: How 10,000 Wannabes Finally Faced Reality

It’s dawn. I haven’t slept in two days. Still, I’ve managed to look my best in designer jeans and a button-down, hair mussed just so, sipping a trendy energy drink and sporting sunglasses even before the sun has fully risen. On any other day, it’d be safe to assume that I’m on drugs — but […]

Hard In The City vs. The Oscars: Live Blog & Winners 2011

Since my live blog of the Golden Globes this year was surprisingly popular (really, I didn’t think anyone would care what I have to say), I am again live-blogging and tweeting up a storm for the Academy Awards this evening. Should you need them, here are my predicted winners.