Tonight’s annual NBC tree-lighting special—a.k.a. The Reason It Was a Good Idea to Work At Home and Not At Time’s Rockefeller Center Office Today—will go on after all. A union of broadcast technicians rescinded a strike threat against the network, which had threatened to pull the plug on Christmas in Rockefeller Center. The network …
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Curiouser and Curiouser
A few days ago I mentioned here that Christopher Knight, the art critic of the Los Angeles Times, had noticed the odd fact that the logo for last weekend’s anti-Obama march on Washington makes use of a symbol with a long pedigree on the militant left, a raised fist.
It turns out that the Rolling Stone website has more details. They …
Glenn Beck: Crack(ed) Symbologist
Glenn Beck, the conservative commentator and self-proclaimed “rodeo clown”, found a new hobby horse the other night — secretly “communist” and “fascist” art buried into the exterior design program of Rockefeller Center. In Beck’s rant he also managed to imply that “Rockefeller”, it’s not clear which Rockefeller he meant, was also …