Viewer 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 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 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 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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx7TE7fCkrk
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 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 ArticleA Day Later, The Space Jump Guy Is OK, But How About The Rest Of Us?
More than 7 million people were watching as Felix Baumgartner sat at the edge of his space capsule yesterday 24 miles off the ground and got ready to jump, in what was known as the "Red Bull Stratos"...
View ArticleA Judge Dismisses 'The Bachelor' Discrimination Lawsuit, But Not Its Concerns
Yesterday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Christopher Johnson and Nathaniel Claybrooks, two black men who had auditioned for The Bachelor, who claimed that the show discriminates...
View ArticleRob Delaney Talks About Gratitude, Perspective, Spaceships And A Career With...
Full disclosure: The first thing I said when I saw that Rob Delaney would be talking to NPR's Audie Cornish on today's All Things Considered was that I was curious to see whether he had ever said...
View ArticleRunning A Comedy Machine: How Chuck Lorre Makes Hits
On Tuesday's Morning Edition, NPR's Neda Ulaby has a story about Chuck Lorre, the producer whose name is attached to three of the five highest-rated comedies on American television last season: The Big...
View ArticleTop Ten Things I Am Not Going To Do During This 'Les Miserables' Screening
It's just about that time when members of the press begin to attend screenings of Les Miserables. I hereby vow to engage in none of the following conduct.1. Throw crusts of bread at the screen and...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Helps His New 'Bud' Superman Get A Glimpse Of Home
On Monday's Morning Edition, Hayden Planetarium director and pop-culture go-to science guy Neil deGrasse Tyson tells NPR's David Greene the story of how he came to lend a hand to Superman.DC Comics,...
View ArticlePBS Remixes 'Reading Rainbow,' Delights Map And Book Nerds Everywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FD1K8OvVCs
View ArticleThe 'Calm Act' Will Quiet Down Commercials, So What Should Congress Do Next?
COME RIGHT DOWN RIGHT NOW BUY SOME FURNITURE EVERYTHING MUST GO WE ARE LIQUIDATING MERCHANDISE FOR THE THIRD TIME SINCE LAST FEBRUARY AND THIS TIME WE REALLY MEAN IT WE ARE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS ANY...
View Article2012 In Review: 50 Wonderful Things From The Year In Pop Culture
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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...
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