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For the uninitiated, State Your Case! is a regular feature on Tuned In (I’ve kept this one alive two straight weeks, people!) in which I take up a TV show that I have given up watching and invite arguments as to why I should watch it again.
The intent of State Your Case! is to find shows that deserve a second look because they …
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I feel as if I’m expected, on principle, to hate The Fashion Show, which debuts tonight on Bravo. It is certainly, whatever Bravo says, a shameless, tactical ripoff of Project Runway, which left Bravo and debuts this summer on Lifetime. That may be distracting to viewers. And it may well be a strategic mistake for Bravo’s larger …
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Spoilers for American Idol’s elimination, after the break:
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Before you read this post, take a deep, deep breath, dive in and watch last night’s Lost.
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As mentioned earlier, I was out past my bedtime at the Time 100 gala, then up further past my bedtime writing up American Idol. Then received my usual 6 a.m. wakeup call from the Tuned In Jrs., so… kinda running on fumes this morning where Lost Discussion Group is concerned. I refer you to the weekly preview post from Doc Jensen, who …
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Wire fans, get excited: HBO has picked up David Simon’s next series, Treme, hopefully to run begin production in the fall. [Update: HBO tells me the THR report was incorrect on the start date; the show will air next year.] The series, set in New Orleans post-Katrina, stars Wendell “Bunk” Pierce (a Nawlins native) as well as The Wire’s …
You may have read recently that an American specialist in the art of the Italian Renaissance is proposing a major reattribution. He’s arguing that two figures in a small 15th-century silver altarpiece by Andrea del Verrocchio were actually the work of Verrocchio’s precocious apprentice, Leonardo da Vinci. Any time I hear about …
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I spent last night at the swanky Time 100 gala, held at the Live at Lincoln Center theater in the Time Warner building. (Fun fact: you may know this glass-encased room as the arena where King Silas held court in Kings.) Above, you can see my iPhone photo, from my perch in the nosebleed seats, of John Legend‘s performance. Rather …
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This was rock night on American Idol, which meant a visit from Slash, and, in the great tradition of Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge, a pre-show stage accident that kept the Final Four from singing a run-through. In addition to the solo performances, each Idol sang a duet—an Idol performance night first—which makes it a little confusing to …
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One advantage of spending time on this “Twitter” thing that all journalists have suddenly discovered is that you can stay appraised, at any time, of what topics are “trending” on the site—what matters are plaguing the universal subconscious of the world, or, at least, that portion of the world blowing its time on Twitter. Swine flu. …
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As anticipation builds for this summer’s Top Chef Masters, debuting June 10, you might want to read this New York Times feature checking up on where various Top Chef contestants ended up in the New York restaurant world, after having packed their knives. It’s a mixed bag: some (like season 1 winner Harold Dieterle) have their own …
The most powerful museum show I saw last year — or, for that matter, for decades — was the Francis Bacon retrospective at Tate Britain in London. From there it traveled to the Prado and now it’s finally coming to the U.S. On May 20 it makes its third and final stop at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Bacon was one of the …
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Last night, to cleanse the experience of the NBC infront from my mind, I went to a screening of Star Trek. I might blog about it more later in the week; for now, I’ll say I liked it a lot, especially how the prequel stayed true to the spirit of the characters without being slavish toward the original series. Then again, I’m not much of a …
