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 ‘New York Times’
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 »
A Twentysomething Reacts to the Times’ Twentysomethings Article
Posted in Education, Whatever, tagged New York Times, Psychology, Twentysomethings on August 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?” So begins the 8,000-word novella on today’s New York Times magazine cover. Why indeed? This question is over rather paramount importance to me — a 22-year-old liberal arts college graduate, unemployed, living with my parents and looking for a job in [...]
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 [...]
