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  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    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.

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    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!

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    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 >>

  • Theater

    December 1, 2010

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

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

  • Columns

    November 10, 2010

    Are Mexicans Cry-Babies?

    Making sense of lachrymose singers and other burning questions

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    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...

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Eric Ripert Visits Dan Barber for an Episode of PBS's 'Avec Eric'

    aveceric.com​Le Bernardin's Eric Ripert dropped in on Dan Barber at Blue Hill at Stone Barns to shoot an episode of his upcoming PBS show Avec Eric. Ripert posted a dispatch of the encounter on the show's website: "I was lucky to spend a day with Dan while we were shooting an episode of my up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Edible News Roundup

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2007

    Tonight: Watch TV on a Farm

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 29, 2007

    Black Moth Super Rainbow's Dandelion Gum

    A winsome mix of Pink Floyd and Sesame Street

  • Screens

    December 13, 2005

    The Year in TV: Stinkers

    A winsome mix of Pink Floyd and Sesame Street

  • Film

    November 22, 2005

    The Righteous Brothers

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

  • Screens

    November 15, 2005

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

  • Screens

    October 25, 2005

    Remote Patrol

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

  • Screens

    September 20, 2005

    Remote Patrol

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

  • Screens

    July 12, 2005

    Remote Patrol

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

  • Screens

    April 19, 2005

    screens

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

  • Art

    January 11, 2005

    Remote Patrol

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

  • Screens

    December 14, 2004

    TV

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

  • Art

    November 30, 2004

    Screen Gems

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

  • Columns

    November 9, 2004

    Closet Case

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

  • Music

    October 19, 2004

    Adult-Contemporary Ax Virtuoso Gets Biggest Job in Town

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

  • Art

    September 7, 2004

    Remote Patrol

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

  • News

    August 10, 2004

    Machine Age

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

  • Art

    June 15, 2004

    Remote Patrol

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

  • News

    May 18, 2004

    Machine Age

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

  • News

    May 4, 2004

    Pilgrims' Progress in the Contemporary World of Reality TV

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

  • News

    April 20, 2004

    Machine Age

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

  • Columns

    September 30, 2003

    Horoscope

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

  • News

    March 4, 2003

    Press Corps

    War Journalists Go to Boot Camp, Get Hazed

  • Film

    March 12, 2002

    Adrift in No Man’s Land

    War Journalists Go to Boot Camp, Get Hazed

  • NYC Life

    July 11, 2000

    Water World

    100 Years of Pulchritude

  • Film

    May 30, 2000

    Based on a True Story

    100 Years of Pulchritude

  • Film

    February 1, 2000

    Frederick Wiseman's Fair Game

    Subjectively Speaking

  • Screens

    November 3, 1998

    Ordinary Witches

    Allegories for the Slumber-Party Set

  • News

    October 13, 1998

    Channel Turfing

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

  • News

    September 22, 1998

    Explore Your World

    Web Documentaries Put You in the Reporter's Seat

  • Screens

    September 22, 1998

    Soap of the Earth

    Farming in a PBS Fishbowl

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