NBC’s newest show “Community” follows the story of Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), an unlucky lawyer whose college degree was deemed invalid by the bar. But the show is not a typical in-your-face comedy. It’s subtle, sarcastic and sometimes downright mean, and you can’t help but laugh.

Asher Roth said what everyone was thinking best when he said it simply in his breakout single: “Man, I love college.” This intersection of care-free sentiment and popular music is the notion on which the mtvU Woodie Awards are based.

Concerned about the environment, but tired of the usual eco-friendly initiatives? Not into lobbying or letter writing campaigns? Try something a little more hip and spend next Thursday evening dancing, socializing and eating organic food — all for the environment.

Chances are, if you are a woman — no matter how old — you know what “Twilight”  is, or have at least heard of it. With the second film in the series, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” coming to theaters on Friday, cast members admit they did not see themselves in this position when they signed up.

“Hello!” Zac Efron greeted me as he passed, not knowing I was about to interview him, but just that I was a young woman sitting, staring and beaming.

The way we live now, there are two ways to react to pop culture: consume it or scorn it. Consumers are traditionally regarded as low-brow, mindless zombies who follow trends without question, allowing the synthesized rhythms of Top 40 music to flow through their iPods, which are probably contained in varying forms of tacky cases.

. The time of the flowing capes, non-retractable fangs, Transylvanian accents and gothic castles has passed. “Vampires are seen, more than ever, as handsome, romantic and loving,” according to Otto Penzler, the author of “The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published.”

Beginning with “Heartbreak Warfare,” John Mayer’s latest record has a slow, dark sound that defines most of the album. As a whole, the songs are covered in more background sound than John Mayer fans may be used to; the time and energy it took to make each song are evident, but it takes away almost any catchy quality they might have had.

Single File, a pop/rock band from Colorado, are just beginning to make a name for themselves. They’ve performed on Warped Tour and opened for big name acts, and, earlier this year, they debuted their first full-length album,  “Common Struggles.” But the band has yet to make much of an impression nationally.

Washington, D.C., experienced the Leonid meteor shower on Monday, Nov. 16. Students were up and out until 4 a.m., when the shower peaked, illuminating the sky as the meteors burned.

In comparison to “The Boondock Saints”, the new sequel is bigger, badder and certainly funnier. In “Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day,” fraternal twins Connor and Murphy MacManus, (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) are hidden deep in Ireland with their father (Billy Connolly), having narrowly escaped capture in the last movie. But when a murderer in Boston kills a priest and frames the Saints, they cut their hair and beards and leave the sheep farm to clear their name in Boston.

“Shear Madness” is the longest running show at the Kennedy Center. Put on eight times a week since 1987, it also happens to be the second longest-running play in the history of American theater. A comedy who-dun-it murder mystery where the audience gets to solve the crime, “Shear Madness” is best for a first date, or to drag one’s parents to when they visit D.C.

During a recent party, we had lesbian sex described to us. It’s like a Jell-O shot: first, you get your finger in to loosen it up, then place your mouth around it to get at the goods. But lesbians are more than just Jell-O shots at parties.

You’re young, politically-inspired, electronically-savvy tweeters ready to change the world. According to Jayan Kalathil and Melissa Bolton-Klinger, the authors of “Generation Change: 150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country and Our World,” you are “Generation Change.”

Amanda Palmer is today’s traveling muse. Over a decade into her multi-project career, the alternative-punk-cabaret songwriter best known for being one-half of the Dresden Dolls is done releasing music.