The main thing that took me out to San Francisco recently was the William Kentridge show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which will be traveling to no fewer than seven cities over the next two years, three in the U.S. and four abroad. This is what I said about it in the new issue of Time.
30 Rock Watch: Bubble Trouble
And… spoilers for 30 Rock coming up after the jump:
Office Watch: No More Forty-Degree Days
Spoilers for last night’s The Office after the jump:
Happy BSG Day! What Do You Frakking Want?
Battlestar Galactica‘s finale airs tonight–and, PSA, runs about 11 minutes long, so pad your recordings–so consider this an open thread to discuss what you hope the show’s last hours will give you, and what you predict they will.
As mentioned, I’ve already seen the finale (and no, I am not breathing a word, hard as it is to …
Obama on Leno: Some Strikes, Some Spin, and a Gutterball
Be likeable, but don’t be too frivolous. Be substantive, but don’t be too wonky. Be serious, but don’t be too grim. Be spontaneous, but don’t put your foot in your mouth. These were some of the contradictory demands on President Barack Obama for his appearance as the first sitting chief executive to appear on The Tonight Show—some …
Putting the Squeeze on Fees in Chicago
Yesterday I mentioned that in May, when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens its new rooftop sculpture garden, it will also increase its admission fee by 20%, from $12.50 to $15. I think I’m seeing a trend here. Pending approval by the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art also plans to increase admission fees, which range right …
Now You Show Me Your Twitter
Ah, I’m just never going to get tired of writing headlines like that! It occurred to me that, after I posted yesterday about joining Twitter partly to be able to follow other writers’ feeds, I didn’t actually mention who any of those other writers were.
Besides several of Tuned In’s longtime favorite TV, media and culture critics, I’ve …
The Morning After: Bela-Ted
I never reviewed ABC’s new comedy Better Off Ted, it being a casualty of a busy week. Created by Victor Fresco (Andy Richter Controls the Universe) and set in the vaguely sinister R&D department of a megacorporation, it continues this TV season’s theme of abused science (Dollhouse, Fringe, Eleventh Hour) in the form of a sitcom. …
Idol Watch: The Singer Not the Song
Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination coming up after the jump:
Lostwatch: There's a New Sheriff in Town
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn off The Muppet Show on your monitor and watch Lost.
Corporate Press Release Theater: I Got No Time for the Corner Boys…
Is Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise more expandable than CSI? We’ll find out soon as, per the release appearing after the jump, The Real Housewives of New Jersey debuts in May:
Idol Predictions: The Tuned In Index
One advantage of moving the American Idol weekly reviews to the blog here, as opposed to putting them elsewhere on time.com, is that I get to see the traffic generated by each individual singer’s review. Which led me to wonder: Does a singer’s Tuned In traffic correspond to his or her voting rank? Can Tuned In predict the Idol results? …
TV Critic Exposes His Twitter in Public
A little over a week ago, I opened a Twitter account (1) to follow other writers I know who post there, (2) because learning to write in 140-character tweets is much-needed discipline for me, and (3) so that I could someday write the above headline.
I resisted joining Twitter for a while, mainly because, as a journalist’s tool, it …