A Brit weighs in on the New York street art splatterer.
(I think I may have just wanted to put up a post that consisted almost entirely of links. Blogging is an art form too!)
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What I'm Watching Tonight: Give the Jew Girl Props
[Before anyone gets all exercised, the title refers to this. Clip made relatively SFW by bleeping, sadly.]
Comedy Central
The Sarah Silverman Show
It’s always a pleasure to discover that a series I’ve favorably reviewed actually stays good after the opening episodes. That’s the case with The Sarah Silverman Program, which I’ll be watching
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Mean Streets: Just Got Meaner
It wasn’t bad enough that guerilla marketers ripped off street art ideas to panic the whole innocent city of Boston. Now the New York Times is reporting about another development that’s had street art people buzzing in New York for a while. Somebody is going around Brooklyn and lower Manhattan and trashing their work with paint …
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JPTV Jr.: Short Attention Span Theater
Virginia Heffernan over at the New York Times blog mill has one of those wish-I’d-thought-of-it-first posts, about YouTube as a parenting tool. I thought of her post this morning as the Tuned In brood shared a light media snack of the OK-Go treadmill video. (The panda sneeze is another favorite, and a favorite pastime is doing random …
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Lostwatch: Big Mister Sunshine
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched Lost yet, avert your eyes before you get struck by a meteor. Or an asteroid. I don’t know the difference.
ABC/MARIO PEREZ
Last night, Lost got back to the core of what the show is all about. Not the characters, or the mystery, or the numbers, or the relationships, or any of that. I’m talking about …
The Worst Buildings in New York
Three weeks after the American Institute of Architects published its survey of America’s best loved buildings, monuments and bridges, the website gridskipper has come up with its own rundown of the ugliest buildings in New York. There are some choices, like Norman Foster’s Hearst Tower, that I disagree with completely. But most of the …
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Discovery Sunday Night: Now With 50% More Jesus!
I’m told one or two of you are interested in The Lost Tomb of Jesus, the documentary airing Sunday night on Discovery, produced by James Cameron, which purports to reveal the ossuaries containing the physical remains of Jesus Christ, and, in case that were not controversial enough, his wife (Mary Magdalene) and son. This morning, …
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Oscar to Viewers: No Skipping the Montages!
YouTube fans hoping to get to the sweet nutmeat of the Oscars without having to digest the massive, fibrous husk that is the rest of the broadcast are out of luck. Variety reports that the Academy has compelled the video-sharing website to pull popular excerpts of actual, entertaining portions of the broadcast, including the opening …
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Heroes Gets Super
NBC Photo: Paul Drinkwater
Finally caught up with this week’s Heroes, which was easily the best of the year. Of course, I might just be saying that because it was essentially an episode of Lost (one present-day story, built around a flashback).
But we don’t want to go down that road again, do we? Taken on its own terms, the episode was …
I Got the Music in Me
Over the weekend I made it to Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center, home of the Wynton Marsalis fiefdom known as Jazz at Lincoln Center, in search of an answer to the musical question — what’s the connection, if any, between art and music? The occasion was the premiere of Portrait in Seven Shades, a jazz composition by Ted Nash that was …
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I'll Have 30 Rock and the Baja Potato Boats, Please
According to TV Week, NBC is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to rebrand its Thursday sitcom block from “Must-See TV” to “Comedy Night Done Right.” Which begs the question: Is this a TV network or an Applebee’s?
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