Best Of 2011: Best Of 2011 Video: Dining for a dollar: holiday edition
Can a luxurious setting make White Chicken & Buffalo Style Sauce go down easier? Our friends at Graham Elliot helped us find out if dollar-store food is any more palatable with the full...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Dining For A Dollar: The necessary 2011 return
Has it really been four years since The A.V. Club last wandered hopefully into a dollar store, seeking out the cheapest, most delicious foods we could find without actually contracting salmonella?...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The A.V. Club’s 2011 Highlight Reel
We try not to toot our own horns too loudly around here at The A.V. Club—we’re all nerdy wallflowers, after all—but we realize that you might’ve missed some fantastic things we published this year. In...
View ArticleVideo: Best Of 2011 Video: The best of TV: The video
With the television industry’s entire yearly output accounted for and meticulously catalogued in lists of best series, memorable episodes, and arbitrary superlatives, a handful of The A.V. Club’s...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The TV Club Awards 2011
For the second year in a row, The A.V. Club looked at its year-end TV coverage and said, “Wait, there’s a lot of weird stuff that happened between the margins that can’t be summed up in simple ‘best...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The best TV series of 2011: The ballots
For the first time this year, The A.V. Club’s TV writers followed the lead of their music-critic colleagues and determined the top 30 TV series of the year using an elaborate point system. Each writer...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: Best TV of 2011
This year saw so much good television that narrowing our list of the top programs to 30 and our “top episodes from shows other than our top 30” list to 50 proved remarkably difficult. It was a year...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: Holiday Highlight Reel: Ghosts of A.V. Club past
Because we know your lives are too busy to read every single word we publish, and because now is the time of year for giving, we’ve decided to send you back into A.V. Club days of yore with some...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The worst TV of 2011
It’s rare for the best series on television to attract huge audiences, but it’s equally rare for the very worst series to manage the same feat. Indeed, only three series out of the 10 worst of 2011...
View ArticleVideo: Best Of 2011 Video: The Year In Swag 2011: The Swagdown, part two
We conclude our year-end countdown of the top 10 ridiculous promotional items we received this year. No, you can’t have them, but you can go watch part one of the swagdown here, or see many, many more...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The Year In Swag 2011: The wallowing in luxury edition
As the means of producing music, books, and even films become cheaper and more accessible every year, the marketplace is increasingly crowded with culture, and the big companies are fighting to stay...
View ArticleVideo: Best Of 2011 Video: The Year In Swag 2011: The Swagdown, part one
Every year, The A.V. Club receives veritable tons of ridiculous promotional items, all of them vying for notice like a pack of screaming children begging for the slightest scraps of attention. This...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The best browser games of 2011
The Sawbuck Gamer column, our recurring roundup of free and dirt-cheap games, is notorious for destroying readers’ productivity with the siren song of interactive procrastination. While you’re home...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The best games of 2011
We assembled our top-10 list in the usual way. All of the regular contributors to The A.V. Club’s game section made a bunch of ballots with numbers on them. We added the numbers up. We talked over the...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The least essential albums of 2011
Each year, The A.V. Club scours the depths of our music slush pile in the quest for the least essential albums of the year. Though we wouldn’t call any of this music “good,” our goal isn’t to find the...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The best books we read in 2011
Every year, The A.V. Club embarks upon elaborate voting rituals to determine the sorta-consensus best films, albums, and television of the year. But finding the best books of the year is a different...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The best comics of 2011: Superhero and mainstream
Superheroes flooded movie screens, publishers transitioned to digital, and entire lines were rebooted in 2011, a turning point for the comic-book industry. The year started with Marvel and DC...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: The best comics of 2011: Graphic novels & art comics
Even more than most list-making endeavors, rounding up the best comics of the year is complicated. Does a single 32-page issue of an ongoing series belong on the same list as a 500-page novel? What...
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Best of: Podmass’ best podcasts of 2011
When we wrote about our favorite podcasts for the first time last year, we kept it casual: A core of A.V. Club podcast fans collaborated on a list of some of the best ones in rotation on our iPods....
View ArticleBest Of 2011: Savage Love: June 6, 2012
Could you tell my boy to calm the heck down? Can’t seem to get him to get the difference between bestiality, necrophilia, and screwin’ a bearskin rug. Emphasizing my usual sexual interests—which...
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