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November 29, 2011
Tom Colicchio Offers Words of Warning to Future Chefs
In this video for the Discovery Channel, Tom Colicchio emphasizes that chef "means boss. That's all it means," and that, while being a chef is now a respected profession, becoming one doesn't automatically mean you're going to be on TV.
Blogs
August 7, 2011
Shark Week Sucks
Sharks haven't evolved for 100 million years, yet the Discovery Channel insists on updating us on the species every summer. Starting last Sunday, Shark Week kicked off its 24th year of shark-themed programming. And for the 24th consecutive year, it was a solid week of gurgling underwater soun ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2011
Is It Okay to Eat Shark in Celebration of Shark Week?
Next week is Shark Week, when the Discovery Channel tries to educate the public about this noble animal by airing shows like "Killer Sharks" and "Jaws of the Pacific," because, as everyone knows, the best way to motivate the public to protect an oft-threatened species is to make people death ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2011
Cab From 'Cash Cab' Hits and Kills Man in Canada
A driver for 'Cash Cab,' the excellent mobile TV quiz show that is also kind of fake, ran over a 61-year-old man in Vancouver yesterday. The man, who was from Surrey, British Columbia, died of his injuries. The show had finished the night's filming and a producer (not the bald-pated host of the A ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
The Four Weirdest Things I Ever Ate
I'm not really zany enough to be a regular on Freaky Eaters, but there's no doubt that my palate is as adventurous as my stomach is made of cast iron. Maybe I could be an occasional guest star. Anyway, here are my four weirdest edibles of all time. (4) Ostrich burgers My auntie Anita was ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
How Beer Saved the World Premieres This Weekend
Plinkk/FlickrBeautiful, isn't it?If you think beer is just something cold and filling to drink during sporting matches or in the kind of bars that you probably shouldn't order wine in, then, boy, are you ever in the dark. It turns out beer is responsible for, like, all the greatest things on ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 12, 2011
COME SAIL AWAY
It’s the 106th annual New York Boat Show
Voice Choices
November 24, 2010
CREATURE COMFORTS
Bring out your dead (animals)
Blogs
November 23, 2010
Dogfish Head Brewery's Sam Calagione Talks About His New Beer TV Show: Do Not Expect Fistfights and Crying
Sam Calagione's nine-year-old daughter owns part of the brewery. Will be popular in high school. Sam Calagione, the head brewer at Dogfish Head Brewery in Delaware, might look like a frat boy and sound like a total dude, but he's one of the biggest geeks around when it comes to beer. His new ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
"Girl Without a Face" Was a Hoax!
I love the Discovery Channel/TLC lineup of half-ton teens, mermaid girls, and other human oddities trying to beat the odds while inspiring you through the chunk blowing. It makes me feel so thrilled to be me! But their "Born Without a Face" show was a complete joke. Bitch had a face!
Blogs
September 1, 2010
Discovery Channel James Jay Lee Hostage Situation: The Creepy DCist Foreshadowing, Chaos, Environmental Extremism
There are two kinds of "WTF" stories we encounter regularly: The first is "WTF?" which implies a situation that we pointedly don't understand much if anything about, and are trying to make sense of. The other is "WTF." which implies a situation that is beyond absurd, terrifying, or otherwise ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
Deer Prefers Beer (Video)
While we wait for more information on the Discovery Channel gunman situation...um...there's this: There is a deer in China that, apparently, likes to drink beer. Which is slightly less horrifying than a baby in Indonesia who smokes a pack or 10 a day -- maybe?
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September 1, 2010
What Will James Jay Lee's Psychotic Rampage Do to Daniel Quinn's Book Ishmael?
Reported Discovery Channel environmental rampage-r James Jay Lee listed as a favorite book on his MySpace page and quoted extensively on his demands note from Daniel Quinn's 1992 philosophical novel Ishmael. If you went to college in America over the last 18 years, you've likely met someone r ... More >>
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August 9, 2010
Sarah Palin Denies Teacher-Hating Eye-Roll, Tells "Left-Stream Media" to Stay Classy
A video has been circulating today in which a local woman with an enormous Worst Governor Ever sign confronts Sarah Palin at the high-security filming of her Discovery Channel show in Homer, Alaska, about, basically, selling out. As you might expect, the conversation the clip captures is utte ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Sarah Palin's Camping Trip With Kate Gosselin Denotes Evil Forces Afoot
Here's some news that will make you forget all about the oil spill and whether Charlie Rangel violated ethics rules and how freakin' hot it is. This news, in fact, will make you forget possibly everything except the clear and present reality that we are all most certainly doomed. Kate Gosseli ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold
We will never own one of these. Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>
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June 28, 2010
The Queens Zoo and Art Museum Are Worth a Trip
Julie Larson MaherI'm always so relentlessly Manhattan-centric, as if nothing else exists in New York, but a recent train voyage to Queens proved my self-imposed limitations have been a bit silly.
Blogs
June 9, 2010
Debrahlee Lorenzana's Big (Boob) Mistake: Ever Going Into Banking
The problem with ever being on a reality TV show is that if anything happens to put you in the public eye again (or if you put yourself there on purpose), people are gonna dig up clips of that old show -- where, say, you professed your love for plastic surgery and your desire for 32 DD-breast ... More >>
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April 26, 2010
Prof. Steven Hawking, on Aliens: Earth Should Watch Its Ass
Well, looks like someone's been watching a little too much V.
Blogs
February 22, 2010
There Are Now Enough Wine Shops in Red Hook for a Turf War
Sarah DiGregorioHow many boutique wine shops can one neighborhood take?Pretty much the most accurate measure of Red Hook's gentrification can be summed up by this headline found in the Brooklyn Paper this morning: "Call it the War of the Rosé! Red Hook wine shops battle it out." Yes. There ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2009
Video: How Candy Canes are Made
Courtesy of Eat Me Daily and the Discovery Channel, check out this exhaustively detailed video on how candy canes are made, complete with a very serious British narrator and a soundtrack that sounds like a cross between porn-movie music and the stuff that's playing when you get on a plane.
Blogs
October 27, 2009
Nightmares Before Halloween 1: Gruesome Amelia Earhart Death Fantasy
Since a new movie has debuted about Amelia Earhart, people are asking again what happened to her when her last flight vanished in 1937. The popular new answer: she was eaten by coconut crabs. It is presumed she and navigator Fred Noonan made a forced landing at Nikumaroro, part of the Phoenix ... More >>
News
July 28, 2009
Pirate School, For the Merchant Sailor in You
The three Arrrrrs: Maritime schools tackle the seafaring menace
Music
July 15, 2009
The Fiery Furnaces Go Bowling
A trip to the swanky new Brooklyn Bowl with everyone's favorite art-rock brother-sister act
Blogs
May 5, 2009
We Taste Amarula... And Yes, We're Aware It's a Cream Liqueur
In these days of master mixology and cocktail snobbery, cream liqueur can be a hard sell. But Bailey's tastes like watered down chocolate milk next to the silky, complex cream that is Amarula from South Africa. Made from the famed fruit of the marula tree--you know, the one you've seen on the Discov ... More >>
Music
July 23, 2008
Paul Weller Overreaches
In these days of master mixology and cocktail snobbery, cream liqueur can be a hard sell. But Bailey's tastes like watered down chocolate milk next to the silky, complex cream that is Amarula from South Africa. Made from the famed fruit of the marula tree--you know, the one you've seen on the Discov ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2008
New 'Phoenix Lights': A Hoax By Some Joker With Flares
In these days of master mixology and cocktail snobbery, cream liqueur can be a hard sell. But Bailey's tastes like watered down chocolate milk next to the silky, complex cream that is Amarula from South Africa. Made from the famed fruit of the marula tree--you know, the one you've seen on the Discov ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2007
Calling All Dirty Chefs: You Need to be on TV
In these days of master mixology and cocktail snobbery, cream liqueur can be a hard sell. But Bailey's tastes like watered down chocolate milk next to the silky, complex cream that is Amarula from South Africa. Made from the famed fruit of the marula tree--you know, the one you've seen on the Discov ... More >>
Music
July 31, 2007
Alphabet Aerobics
Though not the greatest rapper alive, Hip Hop Harry is certainly the furriest
NYC Life
July 24, 2007
Course(s) for Adventure
You've got a thing or two to learn. . .
Film
October 17, 2006
Space Oddity
Herzog's latest doc-fiction hybrid launches into orbit
Screens
June 27, 2006
Feel Like a Misunderstood Shark?
Herzog's latest doc-fiction hybrid launches into orbit
Screens
May 2, 2006
A Quest Called Tribe
In Discovery's extreme travelogue, the natives aren't restless, but the host sure is
Film
March 28, 2006
'The Great Warming'
In Discovery's extreme travelogue, the natives aren't restless, but the host sure is
Screens
January 24, 2006
Remote Patrol
In Discovery's extreme travelogue, the natives aren't restless, but the host sure is
Screens
January 10, 2006
Werner Herzog's Bizarre and Hypnotic Film
In Discovery's extreme travelogue, the natives aren't restless, but the host sure is
Columns
November 8, 2005
La Dolce Musto
In Discovery's extreme travelogue, the natives aren't restless, but the host sure is
Film
January 25, 2005
Strictly Business
Hustle and crow: Big deals, bigger boasts dominate festival
Film
April 23, 2002
Thrill Kill Cult
Hustle and crow: Big deals, bigger boasts dominate festival
Film
November 13, 2001
The Skin of Their Teeth
Hustle and crow: Big deals, bigger boasts dominate festival
Film
July 24, 2001
Creature Comforts
Hustle and crow: Big deals, bigger boasts dominate festival
Film
October 31, 2000
Long Night’s Journeys Into Day
Hustle and crow: Big deals, bigger boasts dominate festival
Film
September 26, 2000
Might of the Hunter
Hustle and crow: Big deals, bigger boasts dominate festival
Music
May 2, 2000
Age of Discovery
Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Mammals on TV Do It
Columns
January 4, 2000
Dress Blues, Discipline, and Demerits
Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Mammals on TV Do It
Art
January 5, 1999
New Channels
Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Mammals on TV Do It
News
September 22, 1998
Explore Your World
Web Documentaries Put You in the Reporter's Seat
News
August 4, 1998
Shape Shifting
Web Documentaries Put You in the Reporter's Seat
News
November 11, 1997
And the Cool Site Winner Is...
Robbed
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