What is it about local news that attracts comedians like B-list celebs to reality shows? Is it the breathtaking collision of pathos and pomposity?... More >>
More than a year ago, the overheated art world got even more frenzied for a few days as the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery held cattle-call auditions for... More >>
Jessica Abel's Brooklyn brownstone looks pretty much like I imagined it would, with its original wood moldings and heavy old cabinets full of... More >>
Trading places on TV is hot these days. Wives swap homes; mothers and daughters try out each other's lives; people flirt with fantasy careers. But... More >>
A friend of mine has a nickname for villians: She calls them "crims," a cuddly-sounding shorthand that applies to the glossy new British series... More >>
Patrick Branwell Brontë is one of those peripheral figures in literary history, lurking in the shadows of his more famous siblings. The sole... More >>
Another year, another Black History Month, another Henry Louis Gates Jr. PBS special. Gates has the lock on this annual Afrocentrifest, and make... More >>
Bruce Benderson has always been a connoisseur of the louche, a writer in constant pursuit of illicit adventures that have no place in our newly... More >>
If working in the music biz is such a dream job, why have there been so few TV shows set in the field? I can think of just two: the short-lived... More >>