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First the Dodgers, Now Project Runway

First Project Runway moved from Bravo to Lifetime. I was fine with that. Now comes word (from EW via tvtattle) that Runway is moving from New York City to Los Angeles, at least for a good chunk of season 6. Oh, no they dih-n’t. Oh NO they DIH-n’t. Look, I’m sure they have plenty of [...]

The Drawings of Philip Guston

Untitled (Cherries), Guston, 1980 / © ESTATE OF PHILIP GUSTON I got an advance look last week at “Philip Guston: Works on Paper”, which opened Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. There are over 100 drawings in the show, which originated in Germany and was organized in New York by Isabelle [...]

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Will the Last Person to Watch Television Please Turn Off the Set?

Working on a print piece again, so the blogging may be a bit scanty today too. (Writing about TV, you learn in this job, tends to get in the way of actually watching TV, much less blogging about it.) According to the New York Times, however, this is probably not a big deal, because it [...]

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Solid as Iraq

You’ll probably be seeing a lot about this anniversary in the news today. But whatever implications it had for national security, our faith in government and the current political situation, let us also not forget how it made possible TV’s greatest extended satire about Iraq, right down to the hubris and the daddy issues:

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The Morning After: Paula's Damage Control

Spoilers on the American Idol elimination—and the latest on Paulagate—coming up… after the break!