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Over the years, people have sometimes complimented me on my articles for Slate (when I was actually writing for Salon), mentioned my work in The New Yorker (for which I don’t work) or told me they read a book of mine (that I did not write). For all these incidents I can thank the insightful James Surowiecki and people’s tendency to think …
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Oh, this is just too good. In short: after Fox News reported the juicy post-election charge, attributed to anonymous McCain advisers, that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent and not a country, MSNBC’s David Shuster reported that the source had come forward: McCain adviser Martin Eisenstadt, who claimed responsibility on …
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Top Chef, currently Bravo’s best reality show—and I’d say that even if Project Runway were returning—comes back tonight. What excites me: it’s once again set in my city, New York. What doesn’t: they’ve inexplicably replaced fantastic judge Ted Allen with serial self-promoter Toby Young. I’ll suspend judgment on the judge for now, …
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As if picking a school and a puppy weren’t enough—oh, yes, and fixing the economy and dealing with two wars—Barack Obama now has to decide whether to let his daughters appear on one of their favorite TV shows, Hannah Montana.
I do not know Barack Obama. I can only guess, as a father, what his reaction (not to mention Michelle’s) …
In the run up to the opening this Sunday of the big 25-year installation Sol LeWitt wall drawings at MASS MoCA, I’ve been thinking about what made those drawings fascinating. LeWitt was one of the earliest Conceptual artists, a pioneer of the idea that the idea behind a work of art was more important than the execution. As an artist …
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At times this week, the aftermath of Election 2008 has seemed like a bronze-medal round in the Olympics: having lost the gold, the Palin side and the McCain side of the Republican ticket has squared off in the media postmortems, each to assign the other the greater share of blame for the loss. Sarah Palin, who has a political future to …
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Spoilers for Fringe coming up after the jump:
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There are, if you look at it generously, two successful new network shows in fall 2008. Strangely, they are on at the same time. We’ve talked about Fringe a fair amount here—I still have last night’s on Tivo—but not so much CBS’s The Mentalist. I liked it better than I expected when I first saw it, but had the feeling that having …
Two weeks ago I headed up to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass. to get an early look at their absolutely terrific new installation of 105 Sol LeWitt wall drawings, a career-spanning retrospective that opens on Sunday. This is no ordinary show. It’s going to stay on the walls at MASS MoCA for at least 25 years, so in effect it’s a mini …
Let’s finish up that conversation with the photographer William Eggleston, who’s retrospective opens Friday at the Whitney Museum in New York.
LACAYO: There are certain pictures of your’s that I think of as your Nan Goldin pictures.
EGGLESTON: Nan and I are very close. I adore her. We talk back and forth all the time.
LACAYO: For …
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…they make great music-video effects.
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Two weeks ago I headed up to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass. to get an early look at their absolutely terrific new installation of 105 Sol LeWitt wall drawings, a career-spanning retrospective that opens on Sunday. This is no ordinary show. It’s going to stay on the walls at MASS MoCA for at least 25 years, so in effect it’s a mini …
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The chief question I have after last night’s How I Met Your Mother is: Was “The Cheerleader Effect”—Barney’s theory of how unattractive women look better in groups—a cryptic slam at Heroes? Beyond that, not much to comment on in last night’s fair but unremarkable episode. The chief storyline, in which Lily and Marshall decide to have …
