Spaghetti Tacos: Silly Enough for Young Eaters [via The New York Times] A visual gag on a Nickelodeon show has spawned a new trend, the trendspotting New York Times reports: spaghetti tacos. Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson provides some expert commentary: “This combination seems to be an inevitability, sort of like chocolate and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Morning Briefing: 7 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Art, France, New York Times, Spaghetti Tacos, Trends on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Morning Briefing: 2 September 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Art, Italy, Journalism, MI6, Murder, Supreme Court on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
British spy found dead in bath was padlocked into sports bag [via The Telegraph] The strange case of Britain’s dead spy continues to reveal new twists. MI6 agent Gareth Williams, 31, was found dead in his apartment August 23. New details recently emerged during an inquiry that Williams’ body was discovered by police padlocked inside [...]
Morning Briefing: 31 August 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Art, Islam, Jersey Shore, Oxford English Dictionary on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
MTV’s ‘Jersey Shore’ could go off air over lawsuit claiming assault, racketeering [via New York Daily News] Say it ain’t so! A woman is suing MTV’s popular reality program “Jersey Shore” after an incident last summer in which the casts’ body guards allegedly threw her to the ground after an argument. That’s the assault; the [...]
Did “Work of Art” work for us?
Posted in Television, tagged Abdi Farah, Art, New York Times, Work of Art on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times this morning has a review of Bravo’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” winner Abdi Farah’s show at the Brooklyn Museum. It sounds rather disappointing in its scope — “it fills a glorified broom closet,” Karen Rosenberg writes. She continues: Mr. Farah’s cast resin sculptures of fallen men have energy [...]
