Choosing Sides: How To Pick Between The Ravens And The 49ers
Headlines were circulating last week about how, as Slate put it, "almost everybody" is rooting for the San Francisco 49ers over the Baltimore Ravens in Sunday's Super Bowl.
View ArticleThat 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 ArticleAre Romantic Comedies Dead?
The March issue of The Atlantic features an essay from Christopher Orr called "Why Are Romantic Comedies So Bad?"* In it, Orr asserts that romantic comedies have been "lackluster for decades."Decades.
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 Article'Arrested Development' Comes Back On Netflix On May 26, So Get Extra Sleep Now
Netflix has announced that the new "anthology" season of Arrested Development will arrive — all 15 episodes at once — on May 26. The show, which ran on Fox from 2003 to 2006 and won an Emmy for...
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 ArticleBig Hair, Big Shoulders And Big Money: Linda Evans On '80s Excess
You may find a hint to the era in which you were born (as well as your taste in entertainment) in Linda Wertheimer's clarification that on the '80s nighttime soap Dynasty, actress Linda Evans played...
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 ArticleMTV's Musical Legacy: How 'Unplugged' Sold The Radio Star
It's generally understood that something about MTV was revolutionary.
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 ArticleA Farewell To 'The Office': The 10 Best Episodes
It really only hit yesterday: It's the end of The Office.After nine seasons, Dunder Mifflin is going dark Thursday night, with an hour-long retrospective at 8:00 and a 75-minute episode at 9:00 that...
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 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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