Photo by Greefus Groinks. It’s December rerun season, the Person of the Year issue has been put to bed, and even as you read this, I am slipping daintily into a hot tub filled with creamy, high-proof egg nog. Yes, the holidays are here, and between TIME’s offices closing down (“special double issue”–the three sweetest [...]

For your listening pleasure, time.com’s podcast of The Best Thing of 2007. The premise: six Time Arts staffers (me, music critic Josh Tyrangiel, book critic Lev Grossman, book/art/architecture critic Richard Lacayo, film critic Richard Corliss and Arts editor Belinda Luscombe) enter a podcast studio. We each select one work from our genre as the Best [...]

Tuned In must be a fertile ground for people looking for online sex and cheap meds, because we’ve been under a vigorous spam attack the past few days. Unfortunately, it seems that as a result the spam filter has been made so sensitive it’s been picking up every comment as spam, including one by Mrs. [...]

Watching the Today Show this morning to watch my boss announce TIME’s Person of the Year–turns out there’s still a Russia! Who knew?–I caught Mike Huckabee defending his Christmas campaign ad to Meredith Vieira. Vieira pressed him on the issue of whether the bookshelf was subliminally framed as a cross in the ad, which follows: [...]