Paul Rudolph Redux

Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, Paul Rudolph, 1963 /Image: COURTESY YALE On Tuesday I finally got a look inside one of the most contested buildings of the last half century. I’ve written a few times about the threat of demolition faced by Paul Rudolph houses, schools and offices around the country. At Yale, where [...]

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TV Poll: American Oddsmaker

Your challenges are simple: Who wins American Idol tonight? What song would you pick for David Archuleta to sing? Which for David Cook? I’m going with Cook, on the theory that he will be able to successfully emo-ify whatever big sploogey anthem is this year’s Idol coronation song, and thus outshine Archuleta’s pure but straightforward [...]

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Wish I'd Thought Of That: HDTV Vs. McCain

Over at Slate, Timothy Noah wonders: will appearing in high-definition on TV be unkind to John McCain? Last year, when McCain’s candidacy appeared to be in serious trouble, you heard a lot about how awful he looked. He’d gotten old, his face was scarred from melanoma surgery; no wonder his presidential run was headed south. [...]

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The Morning After: Gossip Amongst Yourselves

If I had watched the finale yet, I’d have a more appropriate caption here. / Giovanni Rufino/ THE CW Between season-finale triage—I wanted to get How I Met Your Mother out of the way first—and a morning deadline, I haven’t yet watched the Gossip Girl finale. Those of you who have and are dying to [...]

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HIMYM Watch: Crash

Kids: always wear your seat belt! / Eric McCandless/CBS SPOILER ALERT: Before you break the date-time continuum by reading this post, watch last night’s How I Met Your Mother.

Danger is My Business

Today the National Trust for Historic Preservation will issue its annual list of 11 sites around the U.S. that it considers to be the ones most threatened by development, neglect or whatever other forces devour the past. Their hope is that by calling attention to places in jeopardy they can mobilize people to protect them. [...]