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TV Tonight: Rescue Me (A Little)

Garrity (Steve Pasquale) tries to stick to a fast in an upcoming minisode. / FX Remember Rescue Me? FX must be a little worried that by the time Denis Leary’s fireman ensemble returns next year, you’ll have plain forgotten it. To that end, the channel debuts the first of a summer series of roughly five-minute [...]

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A Second Look At: Swingtown

Swingtown’s plot gets, er, twistier. / Eric McCandless/CBS When CBS’s Swingtown started a few weeks ago, it was one of a handful of summer debuts I was actually looking forward to. Three weeks into its run, I think it’s a very good show. It’s also a bad show. And I’m not sure which side of [...]

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EW's List-o-mania

#1 with a bullet. / FOX You might think that the editors of Entertainment Weekly had already devised and published every pop culture special-list issue possible. But you would be wrong. In the current issue, Time’s sister publication unveils what they call the “New Classics”—a label that bravely manages to evoke New Coke and Classic [...]

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Kinsey Has a Beard?

I didn’t get around to mentioning it earlier, but if you haven’t seen it yet, Alex Witchel has a lengthy cover story in the New York Times magazine on Mad Men and its writer-creator, Matthew Weiner. There are some mild spoilers—notably, one related to what year and time it is when season 2 debuts—but the [...]

Oh Happy Dia

There’s one less American art world job open today. Dia Art Foundation announced yesterday that Philippe Vergne, the deputy director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will come on board as director on September 15. He replaces Jeffrey Weiss, the former National Gallery curator who left the Dia job after just nine months, saying [...]