Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1895 days ago

JPTV: What I'm Watching This Weekend

By James Poniewozik

Entourage. Because I can. Because I have the first five episodes. And yes, I am doing a little taunting dance as I write this. Makes it kinda hard to type. Actually, I’m excited and a little trepidatious. I thought season 3 was a comedown from the stellar season 2, partly because it swung too far [...]

+Looking Around | 1895 days ago

I’ll Buy a Window Sill and Two Bannisters

By Richard Lacayo

I thought it was pretty funny to read earlier this week that The Los Angelese County Museum of Art, which is in the midst of a three part expansion designed by the inevitable Renzo Piano, was going to name the entryway of the newly expanded museum “the BP Grand Entrance”. This in gratitude for a [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1895 days ago

Women Aren't from Mars

By James Poniewozik

On the CW series Veronica Mars, the sharp-tongued eponymous college detective manages to get the best of–among other people–the pretty young airheads who get in her way. That’s how you can tell it’s a TV show. In the real, meta-world of TV ratings, things don’t always work out so nicely. This week, Mars went on [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1895 days ago

Dead Tree Alert: Weapons of Mass Diversion

By James Poniewozik

In the analog version of Time magazine this week, my Culture Complex column looks at new Comedy Central programs featuring Middle-Eastern-American comedians–including the Axis of Evil comedy special this weekend–and asks: if this ethnic group amounts to “the new blacks,” as the pundits say, are they ready for their own Richard Pryor? If comedy is [...]