Coachella in the Caribbean: Music Festival Cruise Announced
Ahoy, music mateys!
Hating Ms. Maisy: The Joy, Sorrow and Neurotic Rage of Reading to Your Children
(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.)
For the past eight years, off and on, I’ve been reading picture books aloud to my children. You read the same book out loud every night for two …
When Bad Title Sequences Happen to Good Shows (and Vice Versa)
I’m really enjoying ABC family’s Bunheads this summer, but to appreciate it, you have to get past the beginning. I don’t mean the pilot or the premise (though more on those in a second); I mean the opening title sequence.
First, there’s the show’s title itself—a slang term for ballet dancers—which is a trifecta of badness. It’s …
13 Worst-Ever Movie Taglines (Inspired by Dark Knight Rises Stinker)
In light of the lame, ponderous tagline for The Dark Knight Rises (“A fire will rise”), we’ve waded through the very worst taglines in movie history, in order to inflict them on, er, share them with you
I Admit It: I Don’t Really Like Christopher Nolan’s Movies All That Much
There, I said it
Beyond Batman: Christopher Nolan Really Is Hollywood’s Best New Talent
He makes smart, thought-provoking blockbusters — and he does it so well
Louis CK Talks Daniel Tosh Rape-Joke Furor on Daily Show, Gives Classically Louis CK-ian Response
Last week, if you follow pop-culture news, or general-culture news, or probably beekeeping news, you probably heard the controversy over Daniel Tosh and rape jokes. In a way tiny nutshell: a blogger reported going to a Tosh …
Get Me Rewrite: Why Are Political Journalists Letting Sources Change Their Quotes?
The next time you read a campaign story that includes the phrase “a senior adviser said,” you might want to think of it as “a senior adviser said, after giving a talking to a reporter, getting the quote emailed back, and revising it to what he or she wishes he or she actually said.”
The Bachelorette Watch: The Men Tell All
It’s all over but the shouting for these men on The Bachelorette
Online Blockbuster?: Tom Hanks’ Electric City Debuts on Yahoo Today
Hanks’ 90-minute, 20-episode series is being touted as a “first-of-its-kind, 360-degree online interaction of digital, social, mobile and gaming media.”
Comic-Con: The 25 Most Interesting Things You Missed at the Convention
You may want to put on your zombie costume to read this
TIME’s Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, to the Heights
Make way, puny Avengers, for the grand tale of a superhero in emotional crisis, as Gotham City faces economic collapse and a reign of terror. Can Batman even come to his own rescue?