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Sesame Street Wants Big Bird Out Of Obama Ad

Sesame Street says they are non political and don't want anything to do with endorsing a candidate, so they'd like Obama to take the Bird out of his ad. Even though the other candidate vowed death to Big Bird???

I'm On PBS This Sunday!

David Sigal's documentary Florent: Queen of the Meat Market--about pixieish French provocateur Florent Morellet and his groundbreaking restaurant--will air this Sunday June 17 at 8 PM on PBS.

15 Things You Didn't Know About Taxis

City officials are considering raising taxi fares by 17 percent, which has made cabbies very happy. Today, the New York Post reports thatcabbies would be made even happier with more money: They want a $1 surcharge during rush hour, up from the current $.50 cost. If a compromise can be reached, t ... More >>

North End Grill's Floyd Cardoz Talks Top Chef Masters and Reality TV, Part 2

Yesterday, we chatted with North End Grill's Floyd Cardoz about his new Battery Park City restaurant and his old one, Tabla, in Madison Square Park. Today, we touch upon the ever evolving nature of restaurants then delve in to the world of reality television, Top Chef Masters, and the PBS show that ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Biggest Disappointment Thus Far, and A Mid-Festival Notebook Drop

​With Monday marking the midway point of my stay in Park City, here's a notebook dump on a few films I haven't had a chance to write about at length.

Marja Vongerichten Talks Kimchi Chronicles

RodaleMore than just kimchi​Until now, Jean-Georges was the Vongerichten with the culinary clout, but his wife Marja is getting into the fray with her new PBS television show and cookbook, the Kimchi Chronicles. The New York Daily News profiles her today, learning about how her desire for Kor ... More >>

Q&A: Ear Pwr's Sarah Reynolds On Getting Back To Nature, Sweaty House Shows And The National Parks

​ If Ear Pwr's 2009 album Super Animal Brothers III (Carpark) was a supremely dizzying act of extroversion—a string of cherry bombs celebrating cats, shiny sweaters, dumb jokes, and electro-pop over-ambition—its successor is so mild, by comparison, that it registers as the work of ... More >>

Lance Loud From An American Family: My Exclusive Interview

​In 1973, PBS aired An American Family, a revolutionary look at a Santa Barbara clan's collapsing under the weight of infidelity, deceit, and the son announcing he's gay. It was basically the original reality show and it's just been revived on PBS as well as forming the subject of HBO's Cinem ... More >>

I'm Hot Again!

​No, not sexually. That stuff never died down, strangely enough. I mean on TV! All of a sudden, I've been shooting stuff for HLN, CBS's Early Show, A&E, Current TV, TV Guide Channel, and PBS!

Jimmy McMillan is a Republican Now; Rent is Still Too Damn High

Heir to Reagan​Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is Too Damn High Party, and his facial hair, will be joining forces with the GOP. PBS caught up with McMillan on St. Mark's and discussed his move. He was a hit at CPAC recently, and said he registered to be a Republican because "the Democratic Party s ... More >>

Finishing the Hat--the Lyrics and Kvetches of Stephen Sondheim

The Broadway composer looks back at the first decades of his career

Are Mexicans Cry-Babies?

Making sense of lachrymose singers and other burning questions

The Most Accurate Description of Dr. Seuss' "Cat in the Hat," Maybe Ever

​The news here -- especially relevant if you take drugs, have children or both -- is that tomorrow, PBS will launch a new program entitled "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That." That sounds really fun and all, but is lent a certain extra dose of credibility because the series is co-signe ... More >>

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 >>

A Very Long Conversation with Comedian Reggie Watts About Williamsburg, Touring with Conan, and Brian Eno Birthday Parties That Is Totally Worth the Read

Any attempt to describe what Reggie Watts does onstage will inevitably fail to convey the dizzying heights of absurdity the man regularly achieves, but here it goes. First, the Seattle-via-Montana transplant constructs backing tracks via carefully controlled beat-boxing and judicious use of loopin ... More >>

Kill Your Television Week Inspires Family Bonding, '90s Nostalgia, the DTs

​It's National TV Turn Off Week, which means, folks, time to shut down those boob tubes and spend some quality time watching Netflix on your laptop. Or playing with your new iPad. Or listening to the family's favorite tunes on personalized coordinated iPod Nanos. No, but seriously...

The Blogroll Gazette: A New Foodie Handbook; Putting Chocolate Chips to the Test

This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily weighed in on self-proclaimed "queen of the food bloggers" Pim Techamuanvivit's new book The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy. The verdict? As an objective guide, it "just doesn't fly." Midtown Lunch noted that the Street Vendor P ... More >>

Eric Ripert Nonchalantly Sautes Some Bluefin Tuna on David Letterman

​ Eric Ripert gleefully sautes bluefin tuna for an oblivious David Letterman. Flogging his upcoming PBS series, Avec Eric, Le Bernardin chef Eric Ripert appeared on the David Letterman show Monday evening. In a lightning cooking demonstration, he sauteed a pair of bluefin tuna steaks, seeming ... More >>

What Will We Find in Mario Batali's Genes?

Photo borrowed from nerdapproved.com From the producers who brought us African American Lives and Oprah's Roots comes a new PBS series called Faces of America. Popular icons like Stephen Colbert, Malcolm Gladwell, and Yo Yo Ma have agreed to have their DNA deconstructed to discover what role their ... More >>

Edible News Roundup

Tonight: Watch TV on a Farm

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Dandelion Gum

A winsome mix of Pink Floyd and Sesame Street

The Year in TV: Stinkers

The Righteous Brothers

Truth, 24 times per second: Twin firebrands of American vérité get well-deserved retro

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Screen Gems

The year in TV: Another season, a smattering of reasons for tuning in amid all the mediocrity

Closet Case

Searching for queer clues and a tv producer who can pick them up

Machine Age

Remote Patrol

Machine Age

Pilgrims' Progress in the Contemporary World of Reality TV

Machine Age

Horoscope

Press Corps

War Journalists Go to Boot Camp, Get Hazed

Adrift in No Man’s Land

Water World

100 Years of Pulchritude

Based on a True Story

Frederick Wiseman's Fair Game

Subjectively Speaking

Ordinary Witches

Allegories for the Slumber-Party Set

Channel Turfing

Minorities struggle for a foothold in public television's digital future

Explore Your World

Web Documentaries Put You in the Reporter's Seat

Soap of the Earth

Farming in a PBS Fishbowl