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This morning’s e-mail brings the unsurprising word that Bravo is expanding its Real Housewives franchise, picking up its previously announced Real Housewives of D.C. for a full series order, as well as a second season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
In other Bravo news, the network officially announced there will be a seventh …
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One thing I love about blogging, and my commenters, is that every once in a while a new and amazing comment will straggle in on a post I put up long ago. Over my last vacation, I posted an obscure, little-read remembrance of an obscure, little-watched kids’ show from the 1970s: The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. And just now, someone posted a …
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
Last week I blogged pretty continually about The Art of the Steal, the new documentary about the long, sad struggle over moving the collection of the Barnes Foundation from its home in Merion, Pa. to downtown Philadelphia, a struggle which is pretty much over.
The first set of renderings for what will be the new home of the Barnes on …
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After having said he wouldn’t have much more to say about his sextortion case and his relationships with women on his staff, at tonight’s taping, David Letterman did say more, including offering an apology to his wife and his staff members. Here’s a preview excerpt (from CBS, which took down YouTube video of Dave’s original …
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Today, David Letterman tapes his first Late Show since his revelation, prompted by an extortion attempt, that he’d had sexual relationships with female employees over the years. The post I put up the morning after that drew plenty of opinions about Dave’s behavior.
What I’m curious about, though, after the news has had a weekend to sink …
Okay, after all the text-heavy posting of last week, a rambling picture-heavy post today. I was in Chicago two weeks ago to appear on a panel and to catch up on developments since my last visit in May. One of those developments was the completion of two temporary pavilions in Chicago’s big outdoor showroom, Millennium Park. One is by …
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It’s days like this when the universe proves it has a sense of timing: within 24 hours, not only did Don Imus debut a TV show in the aftermath of a racial scandal, but Michael Richards returned to TV in the aftermath of his racial scandal. (If you’re David Letterman, by the way, are these comebacks a reminder of how mighty entertainers …
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Fans of cowboy-hatted angry scarecrows doing radio shows on TV had reason to rejoice this morning, as Don Imus returned to the air on Fox Business Network, after having left MSNBC following his “nappy-headed hos” scandal. (In the meantime, his show was carried for a period on RFD-TV.)
I’m not among those fans, so I don’t see myself …
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Spoiler alert: Before you read this post, call down to room service, order anything you like, then watch last night’s Mad Men.
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“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man.” Those words kicked off one of the most storied TV shows of all time, The Twilight Zone. TIME takes a look at some of its most memorable episodes
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You may be unaware that I have a double life as the coffee critic of Time.com. You are probably unaware of this because my credentials consist of one review of Starbucks’ Pike Place blend. Well, today, I have doubled my professional output, with a review of Starbucks’ new instant coffee, Via, which was surprisingly un-bad, even if I …
We did something a little different with this week’s issue of Time. We devoted the cover package almost entirely to a photo essay, pictures of a single U.S. infantry company operating in a place called the Tangi Valley in Afghanistan. The photographer is Adam Ferguson, who has been to Afghanistan repeatedly as part of a project to …
