More on Mass MoCA: Joe Thompson Speaks

After my post this morning about the Christoph Buchel imbroglio, Joe Thompson, the director of Mass MoCA, sent me an e-mail with a defense of his museum’s actions. Thompson also wants to make clear that he does not agree with claims made by Buchel’s lawyer Donn Zaretsky that the judge’s ruling in the case amounts [...]

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Wasted Life

NBC Photo: Justin Lubin In today’s reviews, we’re taking on the big trends of fall 2007 one by one. Shows about people with superpowers: check. Shows about rich people: check. (Shows about nerds: already did that.) And now we come to NBC’s Life and the last, and most disturbing, trend of the fall: Shows with [...]

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Dirty Sexy Money: Not Deep, but Still Rich

My chief complaint about Dirty Sexy Money is that no one took my suggestion and changed that stupid title. However long it stays on the air, I will continue to think of this show as crazysexycool. (Abbreviating it DSM does me no good; my mind translates it as DMSR.) I may just have to get [...]

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Bionic Woman: Needs More Beta Testing

NBC Photo: Alan Zenuk Judging by the accumulated comments over the summer, Bionic Woman looks like the most anticipated show among the Tuned In community. A Battlestar Galactica producer taking another ’70s staple and putting a darker, modern, BSG-style spin on it? ’70s transistors upgraded to nanobots? How could it not rock? All I can [...]

Mass MoCA: Clean Sweep

Just a few days after a judge said that Mass MoCA could show Christoph Buchel’s disputed installation in an unfinished state, the museum has decided simply to clean the thing out altogether. Geoff Edgers has the story at The Boston Globe. Over at the museum’s website, Mass MoCA Director Joseph Thompson expresses his desire to [...]

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The Morning After: Reap Some Cane, House Some War…

Dean Hendler/NBC Universal/FOX The months of hype are over and the first Tuesday night of the new season is history–let’s have your reviews of Reaper, Cane, returning shows like House, the third night of The War, etc. Previews of Bionic Woman, Dirty Sexy Money and Life coming up in this space. In the meantime, here’s [...]