Top Chef, currently Bravo’s best reality show—and I’d say that even if Project Runway were returning—comes back tonight. What excites me: it’s once again set in my city, New York. What doesn’t: they’ve inexplicably replaced fantastic judge Ted Allen with serial self-promoter Toby Young. I’ll suspend judgment on the judge for now, however. The new [...]

As if picking a school and a puppy weren’t enough—oh, yes, and fixing the economy and dealing with two wars—Barack Obama now has to decide whether to let his daughters appear on one of their favorite TV shows, Hannah Montana.  I do not know Barack Obama. I can only guess, as a father, what his [...]

At times this week, the aftermath of Election 2008 has seemed like a bronze-medal round in the Olympics: having lost the gold, the Palin side and the McCain side of the Republican ticket has squared off in the media postmortems, each to assign the other the greater share of blame for the loss. Sarah Palin, [...]

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