How can Portland keep clutching its unofficial hipster capital title now that television's wet-fart, The Real World, has defiled the city's pristine bike lanes? Oregon Trail has taught us that there are three obvious solutions — intrepid citizens with their hearts set on creating an edgy pontoon city in the Pacific…

The Village Voice obtained a copy of MTV's standard contract for The Real World, a 30-page document that essentially requires cast members to sign their lives away, quite literally—the first stipulation being the understanding that participating in this reality show could cause death, loss of limbs, or mental illness.…

As 2010 comes to a close, we take a look back at the genre that dominated our television sets: Reality TV. Whether they're Housewives, Judge Judy litigants, pageant kids or Kardashians, we've laughed at them all. Here are our favorites.

Seventeen years ago—during reality TV's infancy—Tami was on The Real World L.A. We talked to her about her history-making abortion, having her jaw wired shut, and returning to the genre she helped pioneer, on VH1's Basketball Wives.

Tami—who got her jaw wired shut, her blanket ripped off her, and had an abortion on the second season of The Real World—is making a triumphant return to reality TV for the new season of VH1's Basketball Wives.

The Real World: D.C. has been kind of boring to the point of being unwatchable (which is saying a lot, coming from me), but last night's episode featured such a shocking act of violence that sucked me back in.

Last night, the 23rd season of The Real World premiered. This time around, eight roommates are living in a mansion in D.C. The standout was Andrew, a self-proclaimed "politically incorrect" cartoonist whose main goal is to "get laid."

In the past decade, MTV aired 14 seasons of The Real World (with another one premiering tonight). As one of the first reality shows, it's introduced us to 105 strangers picked to live in various mansions around the world.