A Talk With: Joe Thompson

When I was up at MASS MoCA a few weeks ago to see their new installation of 105 Sol LeWitt wall drawings, I had a talk with MASS MoCA’s director Joe Thompson about how the project took shape. Thompson and his museum were brought into it by Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale University [...]

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Checking Back With: Chocolate News

When I first reviewed Chocolate News I said that the show suffered from some iffy taped segments, but that David Alan Grier’s commentaries showed potential if they could keep the humor more current. (At least I think I wrote that. Until the Internet coughs up the Tuned In blog archives I have to rely on memory, [...]

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The Morning After: How Do You Like Them Apples?

Spoilers for the season premiere of Top Chef coming up after the jump:

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Pole to Pole

Over the years, people have sometimes complimented me on my articles for Slate (when I was actually writing for Salon), mentioned my work in The New Yorker (for which I don’t work) or told me they read a book of mine (that I did not write). For all these incidents I can thank the insightful James [...]

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MSNBC Punk'd By Phony McCain Adviser

Oh, this is just too good. In short: after Fox News reported the juicy post-election charge, attributed to anonymous McCain advisers, that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent and not a country, MSNBC’s David Shuster reported that the source had come forward: McCain adviser Martin Eisenstadt, who claimed responsibility on his [...]