Dedicated to the One I Love

The Miami Art Museum unveiled the interim design for its new home today, a “work in progress” model by Herzog & de Meuron that MAM Director Terry Riley says can be expected to evolve over the next year or so in part on the basis of public comment. Riley has said that he’d like the [...]

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Dead Electron Alert: Making a List, Checking It Twice

EVERETT Now live on time.com: that list of great holiday TV programs that I told you I was working on earlier. Happy last day of November! You might ask, James, do you honestly think these are the greatest holiday shows of all time? And I would answer, well, sorta. It’s a list of seven memorable, [...]

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Strike Watch: Closer to–or Farther from–a Deal

On the fourth day of writers’-strike talks, the studios came back with an offer for payments on electronic distribution of writers’ work. This much is clear. Whether the deal amounts to more or less for writers, and whether it brings the strike closer to or farther from resolution, is iffier. The WGA, the New York [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Generation X-Mas

My essay in this week’s print TIME is not literally about TV, but it’s about a holiday movie that’s become a cultural phenomenon through reruns on TV. A Christmas Story has supplanted It’s a Wonderful Life (and Miracle on 34th Street) as the favorite holiday movie of Americans of Gen X and later (as defined [...]

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The Morning After: 30, A.D.

NBC Photo: Eric Liebowitz It wasn’t one of the best episodes of 30 Rock last night, but it was probably the most blatant reminder so far that the show has picked up the sitcom torch from Arrested Development. The storyline paralleling Jack and Tracy’s Little League team with the Iraq War recalled the “Mission Accomplished” [...]