- May 29, 2006 | Feature
- The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad President
If TV’s small sample size is to be trusted, we once again have a strong sense that something’s rotten, and we think we know who’s to blame.
- May 1, 2006 | Feature
- The Curtain Rises on the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
Our theater buzz and backlash report.
- April 17, 2006 | Feature
- Clarification: Dunderheaded Teen Sitcom or Venereal Disease?
Clarification on the double-meanings of The Loop, The Evidence, The Clap, and The The.
- April 17, 2006
- Missions Accomplished
If the public is wary of the real-life war, why are viewers eating up shows about a gung-ho military?
- April 17, 2006
- Female Lead: Maria Bello
A Q&A with The Sisters actress.
- April 10, 2006 | Feature
- City Slicker: Fernando Meirelles
Director Fernando Meirelles' invigorating Brazilian TV series, City of Men, based on City of God (sort of), is premiering this week.
- April 3, 2006 | Features
- Up With Grups*
He owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn’t worn anything but jeans in a year, and won’t shut up about the latest Death Cab for Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up who has redefined adulthood as we once knew it and killed off the generation gap.
- April 3, 2006 | Feature
- Blythe Danner’s real (Gwyneth) and pretend (vodka) motherhood.
When Blythe Danner says she’s been busy of late entertaining “a house full of family,” you might remember that her family includes an A-list movie actress, an internationally famous rock star, and a toddler with perhaps the most widely ridiculed name in the Western world.
- April 3, 2006 | Arts
- Springtime for the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
Ah, spring—is there any season more climatically connected with expectations, both rising and dashed?
- March 13, 2006
- Cyndi Lauper: The Remix
An eighties icon finally makes it to Broadway.