Rueben’s Ramblings

As I’ve mentioned before, music is a big part of my life. As far back as I can remember music was always playing in my childhood home. It was either my brothers playing 70’s rock-n-roll on their bedroom stereo, my dad listening to country music in his basement workshop or my mom listening to church music in our kitchen (or …

What is a “typical” week like for a NiceGirl? If it’s anything like my past week it was filled with getting over a nasty head cold brought on by my attendance at San Diego’s Comic Con, catching up on endless hours of shows that I recorded while I was gone, getting tons of articles written for the panels for which …

Where did your most treasured friendship form? In elementary school? At summer camp? In college? For me, my longest running friendship was formed in elementary school during the first week of first grade. My best friend for over 35 years now still lives in my small hometown near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband and 2 children. We don’t see each …

I arrived home from this year’s Comic Con on Sunday night, exhausted from 5 incredible days of programs (and a case of “concrud” – otherwise known as a head cold from the constant back-and-forth between the air conditioning of the buildings and the heat of San Diego), sharing fun experiences with friends and working my butt off taking notes for …

Bright and early tomorrow morning I (along with two good friends) will embark on a journey – dare I say a “trek” – to San Diego for the 2009 Comic Con. This is my annual ‘vacation’ every year; one that I look forward to with much anticipation and a little bit of dread too. My dread aside, this event always …

Emmy nominations will be announced very soon and if you follow the process you know that more times than not the actors or series that really deserve to be honored rarely make the cut. As is the norm with most TV critics, they make up their own lists of who they believe should be nominated. With that being said, here …

Whether you only listen to music on occasion, have it playing in the car on long trips or, like me, can’t really get through the day without it playing (nearly) all the time, there are certain songs that mean something to you, remind you of a special time in your life or move you to not only dance your socks …

On Wednesday, June 24, NiceGirlsTV.com was invited to a private press screening of FOX’s 2-hour movie Virtuality at the Hitchcock Theatre on the Universal Studios lot in Studio City. Louise and I had the opportunity of covering this event as a team; and since it was my first interview and screening for NGTV, I just had to write about how …

After an uncharacteristically late start (for their standards), the Paley Center for Media’s special presentation of “The Creative Process: Inside House” began with a brief introduction by Craig Hitchcock, who joked that he knew what kind of day it was going to be when he arrived at the center at 8 AM that morning (June 17) to find four (4) …

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to attend a special film festival coordinated by the organization Donate Life and presented by Astealls Transplant. These two organizations specialize in advancing the future of (organ) transplantation. You may wonder why a tv-oholic like myself would have reason to attend this type of film festival. The answers may not be as simple …