Ms. Consumer is a brand new free riff. You can keep track of our newest riffs and previews by subscribing to our YouTube channel.

And don't forget - we're still raising money on Kickstarter for Season 2 of the Kids on the Street!

He's here! Meet Mister A in this complete, free-to-stream joint from the Kids on the Street:

Backers of our Kickstarter project have been able to see Mister A since Sunday, and this weekend they'll get to meet Ms. Consumer before anybody else gets the chance! Stop by, take a look at our incentives, and pledge to back the Kids on the Street for Season 2!

We've got quite a few updates on the Movie Humor front. First of all, the Kids on the Street are now the subject of a Kickstarter campaign. We're trying to raise $500 for new equipment. We have 30 days to do it, and our handy-dandy "Help the Kids on the Street" button has been redirected to our Kickstarter campaign. As little as a dollar will help us out!

Second, we've released the penultimate episode of Season 1, The Wild Ride. Starring Jack Nicholson, this classic juvenile delinquent flick features Jack Nicholson shirtless, Jack Nicholson turning on the smarmy charm, and Jack Nicholson in some of the most boring racing action ever filmed. It's available now as a video download at the iRiffs store, and it's great fun for everyone.

And, finally, what's up with our ballyhooed URL change? Well, GoDaddy hasn't exactly been swift to let go of domain registrations. We're still waiting on the domain change to finalize, at which point you'll need to update your bookmarks. So if the Kids on the Street page suddenly disappears, remember -- we're moving to bringbackmidnightmovies.com

If you've been following the Kids on our website, we wanted to give you a heads-up that on Friday (hopefully) our URL will be changing. We'll be going from our current URL to just plain ol' bringbackmidnightmovies.com -- a URL that currently feature information about another project the Kids were involved in, Suspiria's Rent-Free House of Horrors. Information that is badly in need of an update. That information will soon find a home here, as well.

Why the change? For one thing, as much as we love our hosts at Weebly (hi, guys!), it's easier to remember ".com" than to remember ".weebly.com." For another, the .com URL is currently handled by GoDaddy. You might have heard recently that GoDaddy support some very not-nice things (SOPA and the shooting of elephants among them). So we're going to be transferring the domain from GoDaddy to Weebly.

Stand by to update your bookmarks and your RSS feeds.

We've just added a section to our website on how you can help the Kids on the Street spread their particular brand of movie humor. You might notice the friendly blue button to the right of our Updates page, or you might have seen it on our front page, as well. Just click that, and you'll be taken to a wondrous fantasy land. Or possibly to a page detailing how you can help. Six of one, half-dozen of the other....

There are lots of ways you can help, of course, up to and including buying some equipment on our Amazon wishlist. But probably the most important (and cheapest!) way you can help is simply by talking about us.

• Tweet your favorite Kids on the Street joints and share them on Facebook and Google+
• Got a blog? Link to The Kids on the Street!
• Fan us on Facebook or circle us on Google+ (You can find us by searching for +The Kids on the Street)
• Like something you read on our Updates page? Every entry includes buttons to Tweet and Like it. Share it with your friends!
• Subscribe to our YouTube channel and help us spread our preview videos around.

And finally, word of mouth does wonders. If you talk about our movie humor, more people will stop by to check it out and see what it's all about.

The Kids on the Street have completed their riff on Arthur H. Smith's classic amateur horror/suspense flick, "The Mirror!" And you can watch it for free!

Where?

Well, how about right here?

Arthur H. Smith's The Mirror: A Joint from the Kids on the Street is Creative Commons-licensed, so feel free to reshare, remix, and have fun with the video! A full description of the Creative Commons license can be viewed on the Creative Commons website. In addition, a free download of the video will be available on Archive.org soon, as well as a Kids-only mix of the audio that will be released under an even more liberal license.

Share, enjoy, and watch out for mirrors!

Hullo, everybody! It's been a pretty big year for the Kids, and in our inaugural update it's time to talk about the end of the season.
That's right - the end of the season. The Kids on the Street: Season One is drawing to an end this month with three releases.
First comes Arthur H. Smith's The Mirror, a tasty little gem from the early days of independent filmmaking. And it's a bit of a departure from the status quo. The Mirror is a Creative Commons-licensed film, so we'll be releasing our joint under a Creative Commons license, as well! That's right -- the next Kids on the Street joint will be absolutely free, available to stream from YouTube and to download from the Internet Archive. We'll also be releasing the raw audio for the riff (video not included) under a CC license that permits commercial use. And you'll finally get to hear Kristy Beidleman take a crack at a movie, too! 
Then, in quick succession, we'll be seeing The Violent Years (handled by Glen, Elizabeth, and Charles) and The Wild Ride (handled by Glen and Elizabeth). Both will be released as Video-On-Demand products through our usual channel at the iRiffs store.
And that's it for the Kids in 2011.
But if you join us in 2012, you'll see we've got some very cool things coming! Like what?
Here's the scoop --

• January! Ghost Rider: The Extended Cut (Picked by our audience!)
• February! "Ghost Rider" - a production of Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (A video-on-demand short)
• March! Captain America - From 1990, starring Matt "Yes, I'm J.D's Son" Salinger as the star-spangled man

And that's just the first three months! It's going to be a bumper crop this year, so get your discs ready, pop some popcorn, and settle in for Season Two of The Kids on the Street!