By Matt Levy After every race, author, actor, and comedian Nikki MacCallum’s dad would ask, “What was your time?” For the record, her father ran the Boston Marathon in 2:48 which Nikki accurately deemed “borderline Olympic speed.” Her fastest run? Hours slower. So, she’d tell him her time, and he’d…

By Matt Levy “A lot of people believe the Millennials are responsible for killing the supervillain industry but personally I think it was the internet. “Actually it was me. I did it to myself.” This is the opening line to writer and director Joe Pontillo’s brilliant 18-minute mockumentary Social Media…

By Matt Levy Picture this. You’ve thrown your life into renovating your home and you’ve made the sale that’s just about to close escrow. All of your hard work is about to pay off. Suddenly, the buyer backs out a few days before the closing date. You feel like everything…

By Matt Levy Finding an apartment when you move to a new town is not easy. You don’t know the strangers interviewing you to be their future roommate and they don’t know you either. It’s a bit uncomfortable. Now, imagine in this scenario you’re from Mercury and these new roommates…

By Dave Stolz Alex Munguia, a Houston based pop culture commentator has an offbeat influence for a millennial — legendary television personality Dick Clark. In our interview, Munguia said about Clark, “He set the template for how to approach pop culture and become an ambassador for it. He really had…

By Matt Levy 27-year-old New York City playwright Anthony J. Piccione is unflappable. While most in the theater world speculate and fret on the medium’s future amidst a pandemic, others like Piccione have been envisioning an action-packed future. Anthony, ever the upstart, has quite a few ambitious projects in the…

By Matt Levy Five years ago, Philadelphia comedian Matt Hyams waited in line at the “world famous” Comic Strip comedy club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for an audition date far in the future on an unseasonably warm March afternoon. I stood in line next to him. We…

By Matt Levy New Jersey comic James Mac steps onstage for a modest bar show in Queens, New York. He sets his phone down near a couple sitting by the makeshift stage to record his set and launches into his trademark dark ten-minute set sharing dark punchline-filled stories about his…

By Dave Stolz Lifelong NYC resident Cameron Z. Miller wanted to be a writer before they even knew how to write — “I was your classic toddler scribbling on paper.” And, when Cam was a teenager, “I threatened classmates that I would write some exposé about them.” Thankfully for Miller’s…