Brief spoilers about Sunday’s Big Love coming up after the jump:
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Brief spoilers about Sunday’s Big Love coming up after the jump:
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Many of our Monday-night staples were pre-empted by the press conference, but Heroes returned for week two of its new installment. The show is farther down my TiVo-and-watch-later list, but your comments welcomed on it, or any other parts of last night’s attenuated primetime.
A very bad omen for the Chinese New Year.
Shepard Fairey strikes back at Associated Press (which says it owns the right to the photo he used for his Obama poster.)
And the strangest — arts-hating Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn has a daughter who just happens to be an opera singer. (Maybe we should check that Senate version of the …
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Last night, President Barack Obama took questions from the press on national television to argue for his decision to pre-empt Chuck push for a massive economic stimulus package. A few impressions:
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Jerry Springer threw a nation into chaos last week with the announcement that he will no longer be hosting America’s Got Talent. (In related news, Jerry Springer was host of America’s Got Talent.) But the power vacuum has been filled, by none other than former Nickelodeon star / Mariah Carey-marrier Nick Cannon. Quotes from the release …
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As I mentioned last week, I’ve been writing an essay about online and mobile TV for the print TIME magazine, and somewhere in there I reiterate the point I’ve made here before about Saturday Night Live: that it’s essentially become an online-video platform, since having other people find and embed the best bits eliminates the need to sit …
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First things first: I was going to add an explanation here mentioning that other deadlines would be keeping this and other posts delayed/shorter, but let’s just make a deal and agree that, if you’re expecting a post by me and it isn’t here, I’m aware of it and have a lame excuse. Deal? (Also, as always, feel free to use the Morning After …
Over the weekend I made it out to St. Ann’s Warehouse, a performance space in Brooklyn, to catch one of the last performances of Disfarmer. This was a sort of bunraku puppet performance of episodes from the life of the seriously eccentric photographer Mike Disfarmer. That’s right, eat your heart out — we have everything in New York, …
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I am either too old or—judging by Robert Plant’s win with Alison Krauss—too young for the Grammys. Either way, I watched little of the awards except to see Katy Perry’s weird staggering around on stage for about two minutes. But my colleagues Josh Tyrangiel has watched and graded the performances so that you, and more important I, …
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Spoilers for Friday’s Battlestar Galactica coming up after the jump:
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Bullet points about last night’s 30 Rock after the jump:
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Speaking of The Office, last night’s episode, with the return of Rashida Jones, reminded me of the spirited Team Pam versus Team Karen debates we had back in the day. Why is it so irresistible to argue over fictional—and for that matter, real—love triangles? I think because we believe that you can tell something about a person’s soul …
Another day, another version of just what it is Brandeis plans to do with its Rose Art Museum. Yesterday I was utterly puzzled by a statement that Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz made to the Boston Globe that the university did not plan to close the museum, merely to “transition” it into an education center with an exhibition space. …