If you were anywhere near a sports blog on Monday or Tuesday, you probably heard about the Steve Gleason incident, which cost three Atlanta radio hosts their jobs. Some background: Steve Gleason is a former NFL player for the New Orleans Saints, best known for contributing to one of the greatest moments in franchise history. more »

Rob Delaney may be the comedy king of Twitter, but he’s not the comedy king of Netflix streaming, at least for now. The popular comic, who has nearly 870,000 Twitter followers, tweeted late last week that his 2012 comedy special, “Rob Delaney Live at the Bowery Ballroom,” is now streaming on Netflix: My hour special more »

Director Martin Scorsese is responsible for five or six of the greatest crime films in history. And in the 1990s, with “Goodfellas” and “Casino,” he pioneered a very specific time of crime film: the epic, fact-based years-spanning saga that both delves deeply into the day-to-day process of the crime aspect, while having something big to more »

“Why Can’t Anyone Recognize Clark Kent/Superman,” or “a #Slatepitch that recycles a 20-year-old Jerry Seinfeld joke” (Slate) A documentary about Andrew Breitbart has set a Rotten Tomatoes record for widest disparity between critics’ score and audience score- you can guess which is which (Hollywood Reporter) In purchasing the trademark for “HTC Fetch,” HTC is, at more »

Music superstar Usher- two of him, in fact- are starring in a new digital short film sponsored by Samsung Smart TV. The film is a video for Usher’s new song and album “Looking 4 Myself.” According to the description: Directed by Rich Lee, the film features two Ushers facing off against each other, as “down-to-earth” more »

Call it a “birthday suit.” With apologies to our Gadgetell editor, Matthew Marchesano, and to my other friends celebrating a birthday today, I won’t be able to sing to you without consulting my attorneys first. That’s because, as Techdirt lays out in a fascinating post, the “Happy Birthday” song, which dates back to the 19th more »

The Replacements haven’t played a live gig since 1991, but that’s about to change. The seminal Minneapolis punk and alt-rock band, which reunited earlier this year to record for a charity album, will play a series of live shows this summer.  According to Pitchfork, the surviving Replacements, Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson, will reunite to more »

The plot of the third (and best) Muppets movie may come true sometime soon. The Walt Disney Co., the Muppets’ corporate parent, is “quietly initiated early explorations of a live stage show” featuring the Muppet characters, Variety reported.  A 15-minute preview presentation was recently produced, featuring a few sets and 85 of the Muppet characters- more »

Sign up to receive the FREE digital edition of Tell (Technology For Everyday Life) magazine, and you’ll be entered for a chance to win a free Blu-ray copy of the movie “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.” Sign up for the subscription here. The film stars Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi as down-on-their luck illusionists faced with competition from a guerrilla street musician (Jim Carrey.) more »

ESPN 3D, one of the most prominent programming sources in the long attempt by the consumer electronics and entertainment industries to bring 3D to the home, will be shutting down by the end of the year. The network announced the move on its official Twitter account Wednesday: ESPN3D discontinued by year end. Even with strong more »

A pair of EntertainmentTell film critics, contributor Shawn Kotzen and editor Stephen Silver, appeared together last week on Kotzen’s weekly radio show, “Keeping it Reel,” on WCHE  in West Chester, Pa. The two discussed the career of M. Night Shyamalan, as well as “Fast and Furious 6″ and other movies released this summer. Here is more »

With the release of “Man of Steel” only a week away, the final trailer for the return of “Superman” showed up on Thursday, a two-minute clip sponsored by Nokia. The clip has most of what the previous trailers did: Explosions, cool visuals, Superman both in young, bearded mode and in full cape and uniform, and more »