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The TLC network has done a pretty remarkable job lately of targeting a particular psychographic: parents, largely but not exclusively moms, particularly of young children, who (like myself) are inordinately nosy about the lives and choices of other parents. Sometimes we want to see their tearjerking stories (A Baby Story et al.), …
We all know what will happen to construction in the Big Recession. There’ll be a lot less of it. But what will happen to architecture? A few weeks ago the British architect David Chipperfield told an interviewer that he expected a prolonged recession would mean less flamboyant design, fewer buildings that rely on extravagant departures …
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Am I the only one who thinks taking a court-ordered season or so off would actually be a good thing for Project Runway?
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Spoilers for this week’s The Shield coming up after the jump:
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Not that you noticed them missing in the first place, but the archives of Tuned In—which vanished from the Internet in the Great Time.com Blogtastrophe of 2008—have been restored.
Which is probably as good a time as any to ask if there are any improvements or features you’d like to see added to the blog now that most of the
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At lunchtime, I went to a panel for the new IFC six-part documentary series, The IFC Media Project. Hosted by Arianna Huffington, it featured Media Project host Gideon Yago (late of MTV News), NYT conservative columnist William Kristol, Legendary NYC writer Pete Hamill, and excommunicated National Review scion Christopher Buckley. It was …
Let’s finish up that conversation with MASS MoCA Director Joe Thompson about the 25-year installation of Sol LeWitt wall drawings that just opened at MASS MoCA.
LACAYO: Sol did his first wall drawing at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York in 1968. And he drew that one himself, right?
THOMPSON: He did. That first work and …
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Bill Carter in the New York Times reports that, contrary to the word flying around last week, Lipstick Jungle is not cancelled after all. Though the between-the-lines read of his report is not that encouraging:
[NBC co-chair Ben] Silverman noted that it does not repeat well at all, which makes it a risky long-term investment if its
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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Here’s a preview of your upcoming few months: all media outlets will put Barack Obama and his family’s faces on anything they reasonably can, because it is a license to print money. (TIME magazine, which just put out an Obama book, being no exception.) The Obama gravy train made a stop at 60 Minutes last night, and rewarded Steve Kroft …
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I was a fan of Ted Allen from the get-go; on Queer Eye, the food writer was the member of the quintet who seemed most to act like a person rather than a media-ready persona. (Or was that his persona? Discuss!) So I was disappointed to see him gone from the judging lineup of Top Chef this season. But Bravo’s loss is Food Network’s gain, …
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Interesting New York Times piece on the continuing lawsuit by Dan Rather against CBS over its resolution of the 2004 controversy over President Bush’s National Guard records, which cost Rather his job. In a nutshell, the network came under conservative fire for a 60 Minutes II report that relied on documents suggesting that Bush had …
The Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan died over the weekend in Baltimore. I hadn’t given her much thought in recent years until last summer, when a couple of her canvases turned up in “Action/Abstraction”, the excellent show organized by the Jewish Museum in New York that’s now at the St. Louis Art Museum. (And which heads …
