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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

I’ll be catching up on last night’s premiere of Top Chef, which I didn’t get around to between Rescue Me and having gone to a screening of Seth Rogen’s Superbad. It’s supergood! Michael Cera’s character talks exactly like George Michael, except he gets to swear. Jonah Hill’s character talks exactly like Seth Rogen, plus his [...]

Over and Out: Christine Hill

My stay in Venice is winding down. (After a week of running around this place, so am I.) For my last Biennale post, rather than offer final observations, I decided to talk again with an artist who has work showing here. Those are the people the Biennale is all about. Christine Hill is an American, [...]

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YouDebate!

I just sat in on a conference call with CNN and and YouTube, who are teaming up on what they are calling the “first-ever viewer-generated presidential debates.” The debates (one with the Democrats on July 23, one with the GOP on Sept. 17) will feature questions taken entirely from the public’s online video submissions, which [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: What Is Smokey?

We’ve spent a couple of weeks on the season 3 finale here at LDG, so for this week I thought I’d take a different tack, go (slightly) back and toss out one of the bigger questions about the island’s mythology: What (or who) is the smoke monster, anyway? There are a lot of subquestions implied [...]