Jan 7th, 2009 · Attention coach potatoes — it's time to start training for next year. The winners have been declared in the annual ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch Potato Competition. There were contests in New York, Chicago and Baltimore.
Dec 22nd, 2008 · Hanukkah began Sunday and along with the holiday: A latke eating contest. Latkes are crispy, golden-colored potato pancakes often topped with applesauce and sour cream. Pete Czerwinski ate them with more latkes on top. The young man gorged on 7 pounds of latkes to win the contest in Lake Grove, N.Y. — that's 46 pancakes. He calls himself a "power eater" and says his brain never signals that he's full.
Dec 5th, 2008 · Once, only hit TV shows or cult favorites made it to DVD. Now you can spend serious money on lavishly packaged sets of everything from classics to meritless flops. NPR's pop-culture blogger helps aim the remote.
Dec 4th, 2008 · Americans are susceptible to a variety of sneaky maladies associated with the Media Age: information overload, couch potato-obesity, social isolation. The simple key to being a media environmentalist is proper use of the off button.
Nov 28th, 2008 · What do studies on potato chips, puzzle-solving slime mold and jumping fleas have in common? Each was awarded an Ig Nobel prize by the editors of the humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Annals editor Marc Abrahams is emcee of this broadcast of the awards ceremony.
Oct 8th, 2008 · The United Nations declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato. Bill Campbell organized the Palmer Potato Pageant in Palmer, Alaska, to honor the potato for its benefits — both nutritional and recreational. He talks about the pageant.
Oct 8th, 2008 · Need an escape from the bad economic news? Try a movie! Or rather, 57 movies back-to-back. Guinness says it may have a new world record in movie-watching. The competition took place in a plexiglass house in New York's Times Square. Starting with "Iron Man" and ending with "Thelma and Louise." Susan Sarandon and Richard Simmons showed up to encourage contestants.
Aug 25th, 2008 · In July 1916, Lawrence "Chubby" Woodman's roadside potato chip stand wasn't doing so well. So Chubby tried tossing some battered clams into boiling oil and, as the restaurant says, "made culinary history." Chubby opened a clam shack in Essex, Mass., which is still there.