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Although some people have sworn to me that 24 is on an upswing this season, I’ve been unable to see it. So maybe I just haven’t been paying close enough attention to feel the emotional impact as (spoiler, I guess) good-guy-turned-bad-guy-turned-good-guy-turned-bad-guy Tony got nabbed, and Elisha Cuthbert as Jack’s daughter Kim …
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Because nothing goes together like drug-dealer dramas and catering humor, quick spoilers for the weekend installments of Breaking Bad and Party Down coming up after the jump:
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I linked the other day to a New York Times feature on former Top Chef contestants working (or not working) at restaurants in NYC. In it, I learned to my surprise that New Zealander Mark Simmons was the chef at Get Fresh, a restaurant / specialty foods store in Park Slope, Brooklyn, a mere block from my house, where I had never yet eaten. …
I posted last month about the objections by Prince Charles, famed foe of modern architecture, to a proposed apartment complex in London from the office of Pritzker-prize winning architect Richard Rogers. At the time I mentioned that by excellent coincidence Charles was already scheduled to speak this month to the Royal Institute of …
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Spoilers for the season[?] finale of Dollhouse coming up after the jump:
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Brief spoilers for last night’s season finale of The Amazing Race after the jump:
In his “Hello Beautiful” blog today the Chicago based architecture writer Ed Lifson posted another long, impassioned defense of the little Mies I blogged about yesterday, that small brick box on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology that Mies van der Rohe played a role in designing and that’s now scheduled to be demolished. …
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You may not believe this, but I planned my latest print column, on the fecund families of cable’s we-have-a-jillion-kids reality shows, well before the latest explosion over Jon & Kate Plus 8’s Jon Gosselin’s female “friend”:
The downsizing of fictional TV families left a gap that cable has happily filled. But where the Bradys et
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Spoilers for Survivor: Tocantins, Parks and Recreation, The Office and 30 Rock coming up after the jump:
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Because of scheduling considerations in the print TIME, my review of the Glee pilot—debuting after American Idol’s final sing-off May 19—is in the issue on newsstands today.
I like the pilot. A lot. I have been referencing and tweeting abut Glee so often since seeing it that I am probably in danger of overhyping it, so let …
Blair Kamin, the architecture critic of The Chicago Tribune, wrote a provocative little piece this morning to support the idea that it’s ok to tear down a tiny brick box structure located on a forlorn corner of the Mies van der Rohe-designed Illinois Institute of Technology. It faces demolition to make way for a new mass transit …
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Because there’s a lot of pop culture out there and I’m only one man—one lazy, lazy man—time.com has you covered:
* As the (visceral, fun and thrilling) Star Trek prequel/reimagining opens, J.J. Abrams offers up a video 10 Questions interview.
* Time.com critic Mary Pols reviews the new flick: “a brisk, joyous romp.” (Nerd …
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On the drive down, we stopped at a TGI Friday’s and I ordered a cheeseburger. When the waitress brought the food I asked her if she had any Dijon mustard. Dan [legislative aide Dan Shomon] shook his head.
“He doesn’t want Dijon,” he insisted, waving the waitress off. “Here”—he shoved a yellow bottle of French’s mustard in my …
