Tuned In

JPTV: What I'm Watching (But Not Eating)

Travel Channel Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern Andrew Zimmern makes a stop at a barbecued-lamb market in a Moroccan alleyway. The stalls in the alley are arranged in descending order of price; at the beginning, you have the prized luxury cuts, and as you walk on, you move on to body parts that were far [...]

The Hits Just Keep on Coming

I see in today’s New York Times that Boston is thinking of demolishing a 13 story building by Paul Rudolph to make way for an 80 story skyscraper by Renzo Piano. PHOTO:The New York Times/Jodi Hilton Rudolph, who died ten years ago, wasn’t always the easiest architect to love. (What can you expect when you [...]

Tuned In

DumbBells

FOX The Wedding Bells It is a weighty responsibility, the job of professional TV judging. Your faithful critic sweats over his assessments of shows. He watches. He re-watches. He jots and ruminates and second-guesses. Mrs. Tuned In, on the other hand, usually needs to see about 30 seconds of a show to reach a judgment, [...]

Tuned In

Banana: Divine. Banana Cream Pie: Still Sinful

This video comes to us courtesy of Daniel Radosh, whose forthcoming book on Christian pop culture I can’t wait to read. For anyone tired of the Gomorrah that is YouTube, there is now Godtube, a Christian video sharing site. This clip explains the evidence for the existence of God in the perfectly utilitarian shape of [...]