That Was A Great Blackout Last Night
Great blackout last night, right?It's been clear for some time that substantially more people watch the Super Bowl than have the slightest interest in watching the actual football game. That's why...
View ArticleDo Not Pass Go, Do Not Get Severance: Interview With An Iron
Wednesday, Hasbro announced that it was welcoming a new member of the Monopoly-token family. And because it asked the Internet, it wound up with a cat. (For whatever reason, the Internet was not...
View ArticleTen Clues That The Zombie Outbreak Being Announced On Your Television Is Not...
As reported on Tuesday's Morning Edition, KRTV in Great Falls, Mont., was apparently the victim of hackers who broke in and broadcast a warning of attacking zombies. The station now says that it was a...
View ArticleRubio's Water Bottle And The Authenticity Craving
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View ArticleThe Oscars Broadcast, Zooming Way Past Cheeky To Land Squarely On Crass
If you like Argo (which won Best Picture), the movie Chicago (which made a couple of appearances) and jokes about women (which just kept coming), you probably had a substantially better night than the...
View ArticleHere We Go Again: Leno, Fallon, And Why The Late-Night Wars Are So Boring
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View ArticleViewer Discretion: Deciding When To Look Away
I was out of the house, as it happens, for most of the first half of yesterday's Louisville-Duke game, and when I got home and looked at Twitter, before I turned on the TV, there was a huge stack of...
View ArticleThank G-O-O-D-N-E-S-S: The National Spelling Bee Adds Meaning
As Eyder Peralta reported last night, the National Spelling Bee has made a big change to its rules.For the first time, the written (or computerized) test students use to qualify for the semifinals and...
View ArticleBoston's Art Museums Offer Free Admission To Provide A 'Place Of Respite'
UPDATE, 4:08 p.m.: In addition to the institutions mentioned below, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has announced that admission will be free on Wednesday, April 17. At least two art museums in...
View ArticleWhy Angelina Jolie's Op-Ed Matters
Pop culture does not mean celebrity culture; I have perhaps said this more often than anyone you're going to meet. Who dates, who gets a divorce, who has a tantrum, who has surreptitious photos snapped...
View ArticleComikaze: Not Just The Other Comic Convention
You may be familiar with the San Diego Comic-Con, a constantly expanding convention for fans that started as a niche event for comic-book nerds and is now a sprawling pop-culture event.You may not be...
View ArticleAs Trailers Eat Up Movie Time, Theaters And Studios Squabble Over Shortening...
Here's a question: If you go to the movies and the scheduled showtime is, say, 7:30, when do you actually expect the movie to start? If you said 7:30, you go to very unusual screenings. If you said...
View ArticleWhen Your Data Is Your Currency, What Does Your Privacy Cost?
There was considerable mouth-dropping from publications such as The New York Times at initial reports this week that NSA programs are gathering both telephone records and information gleaned from large...
View ArticleIn Slight Defense Of Miss Utah USA, A Little Bit, With Reservations
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View ArticleWhy Paula Deen Can't Be A 'Food Network Star'
It's not the least bit surprising that Paula Deen lost her gig on The Food Network — and you don't have to believe she's a terrible person to know it. All you have to do is watch Food Network Star, the...
View Article'Sharknado' Dares To Ask: Is It Going To Rain Giant Man-Eating Sharks?
If you have a Twitter account, there's an excellent chance you already know about Sharknado, SyFy's meteorological-marine horror movie that premiered last night. When I tell you that a lot of people...
View Article20 Really Great Royal Baby Titles For Classy Parents
Look, it's possible that I don't completely understand how British titles work. But it's 100 percent true that Prince William is also called Baron Carrickfergus. (You may Google that. I'll wait.)Now...
View ArticleToronto International Film Festival, Days One And Two
Two days into the Toronto International Film Festival, I'm 10 films in. We'll talk more about all of these later, but it seemed only fair to share some basic impressions, since I'm certainly logging...
View ArticleA Toronto Film Chat, From Two Jake Gyllenhaals To Three Daniel Radcliffes
Bob Mondello and I took a break from our time at the Toronto International Film Festival today for a chat withAll Things Consideredand host Audie Cornish.
View ArticleThe Golden Globes Share The Wealth, Such As It Is
Let us say this first: The Golden Globes are Hollywood culture at its most purely self-perpetuating. Given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a small group of journalists so gleefully...
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