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Andrew Zimmern makes a stop at a barbecued-lamb market in a Moroccan alleyway. The stalls in the alley are arranged in descending order of price; at the beginning, you have the prized luxury cuts, and as you walk on, you move on to body parts that were far more highly valued by the sheep
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I see in today’s New York Times that Boston is thinking of demolishing a 13 story building by Paul Rudolph to make way for an 80 story skyscraper by Renzo Piano.
PHOTO:The New York Times/Jodi Hilton
Rudolph, who died ten years ago, wasn’t always the easiest architect to love. (What can you expect when you make your name in a style …
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It is a weighty responsibility, the job of professional TV judging. Your faithful critic sweats over his assessments of shows. He watches. He re-watches. He jots and ruminates and second-guesses. Mrs. Tuned In, on the other hand, usually needs to see about 30 seconds of a show to reach a judgment, which is usually
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This video comes to us courtesy of Daniel Radosh, whose forthcoming book on Christian pop culture I can’t wait to read. For anyone tired of the Gomorrah that is YouTube, there is now Godtube, a Christian video sharing site. This clip explains the evidence for the existence of God in the perfectly utilitarian shape of a banana, a fruit …
Just last week the county commissioners of Montgomery County, Pa., where the Barnes Foundation is located, voted unanimously to go in search of outside legal assistance to explore ways to keep the Barnes collection from being relocated to an as yet unbuilt facility in downtown Philadelphia. The commissioners also voted to have their …
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OK, so 24 repeats itself. That’s what it does; that’s what it’s for. It’s probably silly to even point it out. And I tend to agree with Tim Goodman that 24 is so ludicrous, it defies analysis.
But it doesn’t defy a quick-and-dirty list, so here’s a taxonomy of elements from last night’s episode lifted from earlier 24 seasons:
* Jack …
I spoke earlier today with John Elderfield, the chief curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, who wanted to elaborate on an episode that I mentioned in an earlier blogpost about the very imaginative compensation arrangements devised some years ago for MoMA Director Glenn Lowry, which came to light recently in the New York …
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From the you-didn’t-ask-for-it-you-got-it-anyway dept., this just came in over the transom from MTV:
THE SEARCH IS ON!
MTV AND MTV Tr3s JOIN FORCES TO FIND THE NEXT MENUDO BEGINNING ON MARCH 31MTVMenudoNew York, NY/Santa Monica, CA — (March 6, 2007) — The search to recreate Menudo, one of the biggest and most successful Latin pop
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The argument behind the self-help concept The Secret–sorry, The Secret–is that if you want something, you can get it through force of will, determination and positive thinking. This may also be true of winning network-news ratings battles. In February,
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If you haven’t watched last night’s Heroes, remove the top of your head and input the contents of the episode before reading further.
NBC Photo: Justin Lubin
So, good news and bad news. On the one hand, Mohinder’s not dead. But on the bright side, Sylar could still kill him in the next episode!
While last night’s episode didn’t match
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In the British newspaper The Guardian Frank Gehry posted a few reflections today about his upcoming new Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi. The most interesting part is this:
“Abu Dhabi does throw up some very particular issues for the Guggenheim and the display of art. I don’t think we’ll be allowed to display nudes, and there are all sorts of
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OK, so if I told you there is a YouTube video of someone drawing John Locke’s face on an egg using his computer, would that be worth a post? OK, maybe not. Suppose I told you that video was the third most-watched video of the day on YouTube as I write this? Still not so much? OK, how about the fact that there exists an entire genre of …
After maintaining silence on the questions raised by the disclosure of MoMA Director Glenn Lowry’s wonderfully intricate compensation package, MoMA’s Chairman Robert Menschel and President Marie-Josee Kravis have spoken up by way of a letter to the editor in last Saturday’s New York Times, though not one that does much to clarify the …
