Posts Tagged ‘TV’
By Jesse Singal - Jan 8th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Via reddit, this hypothetical map of Springfield (which was apparently created seven years ago) is worth checking out, if merely to reminisce about The Simpsons‘…
Tags: entertainment, The Simpsons, TV
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By Jesse Singal - Dec 14th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
This video of Snoop Dogg helping Martha Stewart prepare mashed potatoes is a few weeks old, but I just caught it on reddit for the…
Tags: food, Martha Stewart, multimedia, race, Snoop Dogg, TV, video
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By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 12th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Like Daniel says here, it is cool that some video games let you choose to be whoever you want, but from a narrative standpoint, I…
Tags: entertainment, TV, video games
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I’ve been a pretty long-term fan of Gossip Girl–what other show packs as much into each hour as Josh Schwartz’s totally fake (?) drama about…
Tags: entertainment, Gossip Girl, LGBT, TV
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By Jesse Singal - Dec 5th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
In his latest ESPN.com column, Bill Simmons spends a paragraph mercilessly–but lovingly–demolishing Entourage, a show I should probably be ashamed to admit that I’m a…
Tags: Bill Simmons, entertainment, Entourage, HBO, TV
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By Bradley Portnoy - Nov 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Cabinet speculation. It’s like celebrity gossip for policy wonks.
- Dylan Matthews
I recently picked up a copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s newest album, 8…
Tags: music, obsessed, TV
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By Kay Steiger - Nov 12th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Dan Savage appeared on the Colbert Report last night, blaming old people for the passage of Proposition 8 and suggesting gays “soak up” the men…
Tags: Dan Savage, multimedia, Stephen Colbert, TV, video
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By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Or at least that’s what a study conducted by the RAND Institution claims. Here’s the Washington Post’s summary:
The study, which tracked more than 700…
Tags: abstinence, sex, sex ed, TV
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By Jesse Singal - Oct 30th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Our very own Rob Anderson was on Al Jazeera English’s “Inside Story” this week to talk about the youth vote. Check it out:
Tags: multimedia, TV, video
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By Daniel Strauss - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
The last time I wrote about Mad Men the reactions were pretty mixed, in large part because I came to the very optimistic conclusion that…
Tags: feminism, gender equality, Mad Men, sexual assault, TV
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By Daniel Strauss - Oct 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I always wondered where Republicans got their political satire fix. Every Democrat I’ve met goes to Comedy Central’s nightly hour of Stewart and Colbert to…
Tags: entertainment, politics, right-wing punditry, South Park, TV
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By Jesse Singal - Oct 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Since there’s been a lot of talk this election season of who is and isn’t a “real” American, last night Jon Stewart provided a helpful…
Tags: Jon Stewart, multimedia, The Daily Show, TV, video
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By Jesse Singal - Oct 17th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Check out Mark Wahlberg’s response to Andy Samberg’s brilliant impression of him:
He’s got to be joking. He can’t actually be this humorless and this…
Tags: Andy Samberg, entertainment, Mark Wahlberg, SNL, TV
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By Daniel Strauss - Oct 16th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
If you haven’t watched Mad Men yet you need to. Fact.
I admit the premise sounds boring–a show about the day to day lives of…
Tags: feminism, gender equality, inequality, Mad Men, TV
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