- November 28, 2005 | It Happened Last Week
- Win and Lose
While there’s never really a good week to be a white guy with Jheri curls, last week was a particularly bad one.
- November 28, 2005 | Gifts
- Sometimes a Candle Is More Than a Candle
An innocent gift can send all kinds of messages, depending on whom you’re giving it to. The meaning of presents, unwrapped.
- November 28, 2005 | Feature
- Clarification
Beloved blues musician or muttonchopped POTUS?
- November 21, 2005 | Intelligencer
- Canceled TV D.A. Leads Jury, Can’t Find her Mark
�The first couple of times I approached the grand jury, I was looking around for my mark,� Carlson says.
- November 21, 2005 | Television
- Turn On. Tune In. Take Over.
Viewers, light your torches! The television revolution is at the gates.
- November 21, 2005 | Feature
- Beware the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
Oscar buzz works on a reverse sonic-boom principle: Your hear it (the buzz) before you see it (the movie).
- November 7, 2005 | Television
- Shrewd Awakening
Kim Cattrall spins her HBO mojo into a message of sexual empowerment. Hey, there are worse ways to get typecast.
- October 31, 2005 | Television Review
- Arch Rivals
David Spade and Stephen Colbert are the Goofus and Gallant of Comedy Central. So why is Goofus’s show better?
- October 10, 2005 | Television
- Beware the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
The first-wave audience is pleasantly surprised, but the second-wavers feel let down; then the third wave finds it's not as bad as they've heard�and they're all watching the exact same show.
- October 3, 2005 | Feature
- One Night. Five Open-Mike Shows. Hundreds of Lousy Jokes.
A Monday spent on the front lines of comedy.