Treme co-creator David Simon is a thoughtful, passionate interview subject who has deeply thought through every project he has done and every opinion he has held, and loves to hold forth. I am a terrible typist. Put the two together and you have an interview that I am never going to transcribe in full. I [...]

Back in November when Oprah Winfrey said she was ending her daytime talk show to focus on her new cable channels, there was a lot of coverage of “the end of Oprah’s show.” I made a point of stressing, at the time, that there is a difference between ending one iteration of a show for [...]

Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination round coming up after the jump:

The nine remaining Idol finalists sang their way through the Lennon-McCartney songbook in this week’s competition. Did they take sad songs and make them better? What would you think if they sang out of tune? Click on the gallery below and try to see it my way: Read Last Week’s Review of the American Idol [...]