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I just watched a screener DVD for one of Nick News’ Linda Ellerbee specials, Kids Pick the President, which airs this Sunday. As a lead-up to an online kids’ vote, which will go live after the special airs, John McCain and Barack Obama took questions from interested kids on issues including immigration, health care and climate …
In London last month I got a preview of Charles Saatchi’s new Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, which is housed in a thoroughly gut-renovated Georgian immensity, the Duke of York headquarters, that was once a military barracks and where you could still hold a drill parade on the lawn. It’s …
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Karen Tumulty, Michael Grunwald and I will be liveblogging tonight’s debate again at the usual address. Learn it, bookmark it, live it.
As you know, tonight’s debate will be a townhall, a format that allows for back-and-forth with voters, intermingling among candidates and questioners, and freewheeling exchanges. Oh, actually: it will …
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Brief spoilers for Heroes coming up after the jump.
From killer dogs to show dogs, TIME takes a look back at cinema’s most memorable pooch flicks.
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I’m coming a couple days late to this, but: while I’d had hope that Entourage was back with its Vince-hits-bottom storyline this season, my faith was shaken with the very-special shrooms-in-the-desert episode Sunday. Like so many episodes in the middle of the last season, it seemed inserted to pad out the season, and really, if they have …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put something cold in your cupholder and watch last night’s How I Met Your Mother.
Another reason for my trip to London last month was to catch an early look at the show of Mark Rothko’s late works that just opened at Tate Modern. This is an exhibition built mostly around the series of paintings that Rothko produced in the late …
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Turning away the disdain of TV critics like so much Sith lightning, The Clone Wars tapped into the cortexes of America’s younglings and delivered big numbers for Cartoon Network on Friday:
The Force is with Cartoon Network as Star Wars™: The Clone Wars™ Blasts Off as the Most-Watched Series Premiere in Network History
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You might be surprised to hear that the best new network show of the fall season may well be on The CW, shunted onto a throwaway night that the network turned over to an outside production company to fill with programming. Because The CW and the studio, Media Rights Capital, …
Two interesting bits of market related news in recent days. Over at Modern Art Notes, blogger Tyler Green has been calling attention to the report that the University of Iowa Museum of Art has prepared for the University’s board of regents concerning the possibility of selling the Museum’s most important possession, Jackson Pollock’s …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, run away to a neighbor’s playhouse and watch last night’s Mad Men.
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What will Saturday Night Live do when the election is over? For that matter, what will they do if Sarah Palin and that other guy lose? Saturday, SNL kept the Alaskan gravy train running with yet another skit, this one clocking in at a plus-sized eleven minutes and change. As a comedy bit, this didn’t seem as inspired as Fey’s first …
