This week, Listed takes a look at some of the more misguided, illogical and otherwise awful online dating sites currently experiencing popularity. If you're looking to meet narcissistic hipsters, antisocial shut-ins, or any random person, your long search is over!
Listed counts down the best moments in Academy history, from Jack Palance proving his manliness, to Marlon Brando inhabiting the soul of Native America, these clips made the show worth sitting through.
This week, Listed takes a look at some of the greatest controversies, upsets, and cheating scandals in the modern history of the Olympics. See Roy Jones kick ass and lose! Watch Mary Decker fall flat on her face! Marvel as the Soviets get to keep playing until they win, and more!
This Sunday is Valentine’s Day, and as an antidote to the flurry of love songs that will be blasting from every radio, we’ve cooked up a list of anti-romantic classics that pay homage to playing the field.
With the Toronto 18 trial currently underway, Listed will this week be taking a look at some other exposed plots that, if enacted, could have had major impacts on history and our current lives.
For Listed this week, let’s take a look at some unusual disasters - carbon dioxide explosions, locust plagues, hordes of destructive football fans, and other destructive events that Roland Emmerich still hasn’t warned us about.
Some movie posters are amazing. Some, however, look like projects from a 10th-grade computer course, with only a generous “C plus” missing from each corner. Artistic intention is hijacked by contractual obligation and studio interference, then raped by Photoshop, until audiences end up with deformed bodies, illegible billing blocks, and migraine-inducing visual collages. The following are the worst of the worst from the few first months of 2010.
What are you looking forward to this year? Advancements in social networking, economic stability or health care reform? How about a car that talks, a drink that makes you stronger or a clone of yourself that can fit into a suitcase? Clearly, Hollywood has shown more interest in “cool futuristic shit” than medicine or geopolitics. For Listed this week, let’s take a look at what our entertainers have said might be in store for 2010...
Happy New Year! We hope you’ve enjoyed reading TORO’s Listed during its first batch of episodes in 2009, and they’ll be plenty more to come in the next decade. To wrap things up, let’s take a tour of some unique New Year’s celebrations around the world. Then we’ll see you in 2010!
The flurry of "best of" lists floating around the web have already created an unfortunately familiar canon of albums and artists – most writers are participating in what will be a classic-rock playlist for the next generation, and we can all agree that the Boomer model is not one to be followed too closely. Needless to say, let’s not just reinforce that canon. Let’s go through, instead, what is simply a subjective scrapbook.