Apr 22, 2011
By John Everhart
Web Exclusive
Under the Radar caught up with comedian Ed Helms (The Office, The Hangover) to discuss his upcoming bluegrass festival, formative musical influences, and the karma he’ll never earn back from some of his segments on The Daily Show. More
Apr 19, 2011
By Chris Tinkham
Miles Heizer
16-year-old Miles Heizer plays the introverted, mature-minded Drew Holt on the NBC Tuesday-night drama Parenthood. Although Drew’s sister, Amber (played by Mae Whitman), is a novice singer-songwriter with a giant-sized Tegan and Sara poster on her wall, Under the Radar learned, while looking into the show’s occasional Tegan and Sara references, that Heizer is passionate about music and a fan of numerous indie-rock bands, with Beach House currently reigning supreme among them in his estimation. This writer spotted Heizer at a Lykke Li show in Los Angeles last month and struck up a conversation with him about music prior to the performance. With the season finale of Parenthood set to air tomorrow night, now seemed like a good time to find out more about Heizer, to continue the conversation about music, and to settle the mystery of the show’s Tegan and Sara connections. More
Oct 11, 2010
By Mike Hilleary
Simon Helberg
While he’s never engaged in a down-and-out brawl before, actor Simon Helberg can throw a mean punch, having earned a black belt in karate by the time he was 10 years old. That’s not to say, however, that he won’t feel really, really bad about it. More
Oct 06, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
The Walking Dead
“This is not good.” Those are the foreboding first words you read in the debut issue of Image Comics’ The Walking Dead. There is no over-the-top internal monologue from a main character, or omnipresent narrator clueing you in to the overall through-line. It’s just a bleak, monochromatic landscape, punctuated by telephone poles and a pivotal police shootout. More
Aug 02, 2010
By Jim James
Issue #32 - Summer 2010 - Wasted on the Youth
Making sure I had properly saved my game, I pushed the power button on my Nintendo Entertainment System to bring that day’s Legend of Zelda adventures to a close. When Zelda disappeared, there was a man staring at me from the TV—a sharp-dressed man in a fine suit with his black hair slicked back, eyes searching for something beyond me at that time. Special Agent Dale Cooper—he spoke to something in me that was “good.” Something that wanted to know the truth about what all those grownups were doing. More
Aug 02, 2010
By Mike Hilleary (as told to)
Issue #32 - Summer 2010 - Wasted on the Youth
Growing up there was definitely a lot of stuff pop culture-wise that I didn’t catch onto until I was older. Of the things I did experience as it happened, My So-Called Life was the one that was most important to me.
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Oct 07, 2009
By Mark Redfern
Issue #28 Fall 2009 - Monsters of Folk
“You go into a supermarket and your face is on a cake and underpants. And all that’s very odd. It’s not what you imagine when you go to drama school, that you’ll be commemorated in plastic and icing, and cotton.” Scottish actor David Tennant is very famous in the United Kingdom. Despite his appearance in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Tennant is not that well known in America, although has spent the last four years starring in the British television institution Doctor Who, which was recently honored by the Guinness Book of World Records as “The Most Successful Sci-Fi Television Show.” We spoke to Tennant about his reasons for leaving Doctor Who, his childhood experiences with the show, his thoughts on his tenure as The Doctor, which bands he’s into, and his future plans. More
Jul 04, 2009
By Mark Redfern
Eve Myles
When Welsh actress Eve Myles recently found out she was pregnant, she made sure that her baby was of this Earth. “We checked on the scan that it was a human and was not an alien,” Myles jokes. Gwen Cooper, the secret government agent that Myles plays on the British sci-fi show Torchwood, was pregnant with an alien baby last season, so Myles jokes that her mother was especially pleased to know fiction wasn’t bleeding over to reality. More