Disney Channel’s High School Musical franchise has moved on from a TV to a movie property, which means that it is officially, if I can help it, No Longer My Problem—at least until the Tuned In Jrs. get older. But it’s worth noting that HSM3 cleaned up at the box office this weekend the same [...]

Last Saturday night, CNN debuted D.L. Hughley Breaks the News. I know what you’re thinking: he just put that headline on this post because D.L. Hughley’s a black guy. But the news-comedy show that he produced, at least the first time out, was at least as race-conscious, if not more, than David Allan Grier’s Chocolate News [...]

An asteroid hit Time’s blogs Friday before I got a chance to link to my column in this week’s print Time, about the campaign rhetoric over “real” Americans and the way the media helps feed those myths. It starts a little more personally than usual, because it’s an issue I feel a little more personally [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for Mad Men coming up—right now! Because I haven’t figured out yet how to do a jump page in the new blog platform. [Update: Fixed it!] So climb into your bomb shelter and watch the season finale of Mad Men if you haven’t already.