Talking Bout the Biennale

I grabbed lunch today with Rob Storr, dean of the Yale School of Art and director of the upcoming Venice Biennale, the first American invited to fill that job. (For the record, there was an earlier Biennale directed by an Italian who became a U.S. citizen just before it opened.) The Biennale, of course, is [...]

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The TV-Violence Crackdown: Here It Comes

It took a bit longer than predicted, but the Washington Post reports that the Federal Communications Commission will next week recommend that Congress start regulating TV violence (possibly even on cable), as it now does obscenity. And so the fight to solve the apparently widespread problem of young children accidentally watching 24 and The Shield, [...]

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Heroes Sandwich

NBC Photo: Paul Drinkwater So the good news: Linderman, now the head cheese at Primatech, wants to heal the world. The bad news: to accomplish that, I and a few million of my fellow New Yorkers need to be blown up. “.07 Percent,” the title of the episode, refers to the portion of the human [...]