She’s made Ric Flair fall face first with a kiss, she has an irresistible smile, she cancan take body slams, and most importantly she loves babies and puppies. She’s none other then WWE Diva turned Playboy Covergirl, Maria Kanellis.

Maria won wrestling fans hearts with her ditzy personality (don’t let it fool you), long legs, green doe eyes that melt even the coldest heart, and her gestures of blowing kisses to the crowd. Maria was kind enough to take time out of her busy schedule to talk to COED about everything from wrestling, life, and Barry Manilow?! Read More »

Boys Like Girls used their explosion on the PureVolume“unsigned band” chart to land a major label record deal that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of records sold of their critically acclaimed self-titled album. Just two years ago, Boys Like Girls were playing small venues in the Boston area.  Today, they are gearing up to co-headline a five week national arena tour with Good Charlotte. On the verge of super-stardom, this quartet hasn’t forgotten their roots and the fans that helped them get to where they are today.

Check out our interview with Boys Like Girls’ lead guitarist Paul DiGiovanni after the jump! Read More »

Next week COED will be sitting down with The Kooks and we want to have them answer YOUR questions!

In the comment section below, submit as many questions for the band as you like, and come back next week for the answers.

We really will try to have them answer as many as possible.

Listen to The Kooks latest single “Sway”, and watch music videos for “She Moves In Her Own Way” and “Naive” if your in the mood for a solid throwback.

Most people’s first encounter with the ultra hip, uber talented band, The Ting Tings can be attributed to Steve Jobs and his brilliant iPod commercials. Their song, Shut Up and Let Me Go, was catchy, fun and piqued everyone’s interest…in more than an MP3 player. Fortunately, that song wasn’t the only trick up The Ting Tings’ sleeve.Their newest album, We Started Nothing, is further proof of this duo’s serious talent. Unable to get those songs out of our heads, COED just had to get the story behind the band. So, we did. The good news: Katie White is just as down to earth and cool as she is talented. And, though we didn’t get to chat with Jules, we are pretty sure the same goes for him.

COED: We Started Nothing is chock full of textured beats, irresistible melodies and witty lyrics- where do the songs come from?
The Ting Tings: We didn’t intend to form in a band so I think it came from a very honest place, because when we wrote these songs we didn’t think anyone would ever hear them. We just wrote them to play for our friends at parties. We were both feeling quite frustrated at the time and very sort of, I don’t know, like, invisible. We had been in a band that hadn’t worked out, we had a bit of a horrible time with it; I think it came from a real frustrated point of view, but they weren’t negative songs; they were just songs to make us feel better.

COED: Could you describe your song writing process?
TT: It’s completely different for every song. Both myself and Jules write everything together. Sometimes it will be that I will come up with something on the guitar and then we’ll come up with an idea on top of that. Or Jules might come up with something on the guitar or drums, or we’ll play keyboards or we’ll just have this little percussive sound. We just turn to sing like guy vocals and then an idea will come out of it. Read More »

You probably know Artie Lange from bit parts on the Howard Stern Show, ArtieLangeDeathWatch.com, or in movies like Old School and Beer League. COED caught up with Artie (for five minutes) and discussed life, college and alcohol.

COED: You went to Seton Hall University. How did that happen?
Artie Lange: I went there from September 1985 to September 1985 [Editor’s note: No, that’s not a typo]. I barely got out of high school, but I was good at baseball, and combined with the fact that my uncle knew a priest with some pull, so I ended up sneaking in [to Seton Hall].

COED:Why should anyone rent your movie Beer League?
AL: Me and the kid who wrote it (Frank Sabastiano) are both from New Jersey, and play in a softball league. We always wanted to do our own f—in’ rated-R softball movie. We got together five years ago in L.A., and said let’s just tell our craziest softball stories and put them index cards and try to structure it like a film. The whole team is alcoholics. And in the film, I live with my mom. Oh, and there’s a great bachelor party scene with tits and ass.

COED: Give us a drink you could recommend to college students.
AL: It’s very simple: Jack Daniel’s with water and a lot of ice. Let’s call it “The Artie.” I’ve heard some people call it that before, but let’s make it official.

From Wolfenstein 3-D to DOOM to today’s release of Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, id Software has been jacking-up the ante on first-person shooters like no other team in gaming. We were fortunate enough to get i.d. co-owner and lead game designer, Kevin Cloud on the phone to discuss the new release. Enjoy!

COED: Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is out today for Xbox 360 and PS3. What can we expect from the console versions?

Kevin Cloud: We’ve been working on the 360 and PS3 for almost two years now. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, when we released it on the PC, we got a lot of editorial acclaim for it, if you’ll remember, a lot of awards and nominations, so there’s some really good gameplay in there.

It’s a really big game, a lot going on, so we wanted to make sure we got all of that in there. We got it running great, looking great, so we’ve achieved that. We had the design teams focusing on a each console to really make sure the game controls fit what players on that platform are accustom to, whether it’s shooting, driving, whatever. Read More »

Some of you may have never heard of Jack Kerouac. Others may have his novels memorized. Regardless, On The Road should be at the top of you summer reading list. The title says it all, so I won’t waste your time with a synopsis. Some find the post-WWII slang dated (which, of course, it is). But once you shake that from your mind, it could become the best book you’ve ever read.*

*May also make you quit your job, and drive across the country getting laid and drinking a lot. Which, if you think about it, is all you really want to be doing, anyway. But reading this book first will set the adventure-bar high. Ya dig?

Check out video of Kerouac reading from On the Road after the jump! Read More »

I’m convinced that prostitutes and bloggers make up half the world’s population.

With sex scandal upon sex scandal being covered by every facet of the media, it’s no surprise to see even the most private of prostitutes being outed…wait, did I say “private”? I meant “attention-seeking.”

I’m not trying to be unfair, but when you’re a blogger/prostitute like Debauchette, our Exhibit A, your life revolves around what people think of you and your every opinion, raw and uncut. Eventually, that insatiable need to be heard gets you in trouble — or on ABC News with Diana Sawyer. Or both.

It’s hard to empathize with the outing of Debauchette — her mom figured out she was a professional whore from watching the interview, taking notice of her daughter’s quirks and mannerisms — especially when nobody forced her into chatting up her “other” life on television. Call it being a call girl; I call it ego-feeding.

Still, Debauchette comes off extremely smart, albeit too smart for her own good, putting her wordy eloquence and personal gain before simple judgment. Too much dick does that to a girl.

There’s a short list for franchises yet to be plundered by Hollywood studios, let alone ones of high quality and deserving of being resuscitated by the right people. If there’s one franchise (and character) that could be revived and retain its vibe in a new film it would be Pee-Wee Herman.

In an interview with MTV Paul Reubens said that he’s toyed with the idea of not one but two new Pee-Wee movies. Fans of weirdo comedies that border on the insane rejoice!

Reubens described both scripts in the interview, saying that one would be an extension of the hit show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse while the other would be darker in tone, telling the story of Pee-Wee as an overnight success in the music industry who signs on to Elvis-inspired musicals and has a hard time dealing with seedy Hollywood types.

Both scripts sound worthwhile, but Pee-Wee’s Adventure producer Tim Burton is “too booked” to helm either project. That’s bad news to any Pee-Wee enthusiast weaned on pure nostalgia. Read More »

Oh, how Katherine Heigl has grown up.

From B-list boob-bouncer in Side Effect (see video after the jump if you consider yourself straight) to COED Magazine interviewee to full-fledged TV star on Grey’s Anatomy and beyond, she’s become wildly successful through the years without a “scandal” to bolster her popularity.

Her most recent career success was landing the cover of January 2008’s Vanity Fair Magazine, where she looks gorgeous as usual. Katherine Heigl, I tip my hat to thee.

Check out a “Then and Now” look at Heigl’s career after the jump.

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