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Not to get too Swampland-y in here, but the political press is abuzz this morning over the resignation of Samantha Power, an Obama aide adviser (and TIME contributor) for having called Hillary Clinton a “monster” in an interview. (A smoke monster? A Godzilla / Cloverfield type creature? Where was the follow up?)
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As we prepare to send off TV’s greatest drama, a few moments to remember your other options this weekend:
* The finale-that’s-not-really-a-finale of Breaking Bad. The series, originally intended to have a ten-episode order, was unceremoniously cut to seven by the strike, which means that the final episode ends the season arbitrarily. …
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I’ll save the spoilers on last night’s American Idol elimination for the comments, but suffice it to say I got a couple of my predictions right, and a couple very wrong. Did America get it right, America? And how do you handicap the remaining finalists?
It’s (almost) happy ending time in the fight between Fisk University and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum over the Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Yesterday a Tennessee judge ruled that Fisk could keep the collection but could not sell …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, go to the safe behind the picture in your living room, enter the combination 36 – 15 – 28, get the videotape inside, and watch Lost. I taped over the Red Sox game.
The Tempest is the name of our brand-spanking newest Dharma station, a power …
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In case you came directly to Tuned In and didn’t see the time.com front page today, there’s a provocative op-ed from The Wire’s Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelacanos, Richard Price and David Simon, about a major theme of the show–the argument that the war on drugs has been a failure–and what people can do about it. Their …
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Time music guru and evil overlord of time.com Josh Tyrangiel takes another stab at reviewing the women’s performances as American Idol pares down to its final dozen. (After we get to the 12 finalists next week, you’ll be stuck with my musically …
It’s here, the Whitney Biennial, the show that everybody loves to hate. It opens today at the Whitney Museum in New York. I sat down yesterday with Shamim M. Momin and Henriette Huldisch, the Whitney curators chiefly responsible for this year’s edition. The new Biennial is unusual in that for three weeks part of it will spill over to …
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t yet watched the Project Runway finale yet, sever your Internet hose immediately–there’s spoilage everywhere out there.
Rather than attempt some big essay-review that pretends I have any fashion expertise with which to assess the Runway finale, I decided just to pound it out, liveblog-style. Except that …
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I can’t endorse the series sight unseen, but on the basis of the premise alone, I am at least TiVoing BBC America’s latest reality show this weekend:
Every year, the average British person throws out over 1,000 lbs. of trash, including $800 worth of food, with just a quarter being recycled. Most of the rest ends up in
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March 4 is over, and we have a winner: the TV networks. America, you lucky country, you are now looking at a full month and a half before Pennsylvania, with only a couple small contests. Meaning that, in the absence of any actual votes, the coverage of the campaign will become the campaign itself, in that that’s what will create any …
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Dungeons and Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax has died. At first blush, this seems more like a Nerd World topic, and Lev Grossman doffs his +2 Cloak of Protection to Gygax over there. But I couldn’t let the news go unnoted here, because far from being a hermetic obsession of antisocial geeks, D&D had a wide influence on pop culture, even, …
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My review of the men’s American Idol performances are up at time.com. The standard disclaimer applies: I am not a music critic nor a musical authority, just like the people who actually will choose the next Idol.
Very good night for the guys; even the ones who weren’t good were not atrocious. My guesses for the next elimination: Luke …
