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One more day to New Year’s Eve, which means only one more day to buy champagne, stick toothpicks in the cheese cubes and cocktail weenies, and decide what channel you’re going to turn on as midnight approaches. Even for those not inclined to put the tube on at their parties, there’s a great temptation to tune in at least for those few …
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While I’m away, Robo-James has been programmed to generate some daily discussion posts. But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. Consider this your daily open-topic post to write about what was on TV last night, what’s in the news today, or what you’re looking forward to tomorrow. Just play nicely, announce your spoilers, and use the
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The L.A. sculptor Robert Graham died over the weekend. Though he had many museum shows, it’s probably true that his best known works were his civic monuments and other outdoor sculpture. His work was resolutely figurative and it could be a mixed bag. His 1984 L.A. Olympic Gateway, with those muscular bronze torsos, was a little too …
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You’re renaissance people, you Tuned Inlanders. You have vast life experiences and catholic interests that inform your television viewing. And so it is that we set aside one day to remember those things besides TV shows that rocked your world—entertainment-wise or otherwise—in 2008. Here are just a few of mine:
* Stay Positive by …
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While I’m away, Robo-James has been programmed to generate some daily discussion posts. But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. Consider this your daily open-topic post to write about what was on TV last night, what’s in the news today, or what you’re looking forward to tomorrow. Just play nicely, announce your spoilers, and use the
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Every top 10 list, I like to say, is really a top-9 list plus a 15-way tie for 10th place. Putting together my lists of best episodes and best series this year, there were plenty of shows that could have easily made the list had I finalized it on a different day. There are also plenty of shows that, while they weren’t necessarily top 10 …
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While I’m away, Robo-James has been programmed to generate some daily discussion posts. But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. Consider this your daily open-topic post to write about what was on TV last night, what’s in the news today, or what you’re looking forward to tomorrow. Just play nicely, announce your spoilers, and use the
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Last year on this day, I linked to the infamous Charlie Brown Christmas “Hey Ya!” video. Today, there are more Peanuts mashups online than ornaments on a tree, but this one made me laugh the hardest this year, because I am 12 years old:
Surprisingly SFW! But I hope you’re not working today, because I’m sure as ____ not. Happy …
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While I’m away, Robo-James has been programmed to generate some daily discussion posts. But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. Consider this your daily open-topic post to write about what was on TV last night, what’s in the news today, or what you’re looking forward to tomorrow. Just play nicely, announce your spoilers, and use the
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In the hope that I might need free time for holiday cheer of some kind, Looking Around is shutting down for the next five days. Back Monday. But on the way out the door I wanted to take note of two more books that I enjoyed in recent months.
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton (W.W. Norton; 268 pages)
Thornton has degrees in …
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There are a couple schools of thought about entertainment spending and recessions. One is that, when there’s so much dire news in the world, home video is a relatively cheap and welcome escape. Another is that, if you lose your job and are worried about the same, the first thing you want to escape is that monster cable bill. Anecdotally, …
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While I’m away, Robo-James has been programmed to generate some daily discussion posts. But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. Consider this your daily open-topic post to write about what was on TV last night, what’s in the news today, or what you’re looking forward to tomorrow. Just play nicely, announce your spoilers, and use the
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Two days before Christmas, it looks like the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has accepted Eli Broad as Santa Claus. The L.A. Times is reporting on its arts blog that the museum’s trustees have accepted Broad’s offer of up to $15 million in matching funds for its endowment and another $15 million in operating expenses over five …
