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The Office – The Seminar
“Comedy is a place where the mind goes to tickle itself.” The lighting in the US Office is so much brighter than the UK Office. I’ve never really thought about it that much before but it seems Important. There’s an … Continue reading
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Jeff Mangum Comeback?
Pitchfork is reporting as much. Over the last couple of years reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel mastermind/all-around musical genius Jeff Mangum has been popping up for appearances here and there (Michael and I saw him do a couple of songs at … Continue reading
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The Office – “Ultimatum”
Believe it or not, The Office is still pretty much the only scripted hit NBC has. Despite being lapped creatively by 30 Rock, Community, and Parks and Recreation, The Office still routinely beats all those shows in the ratings and, … Continue reading
TUiW Best of 2010: The 15 Best Songs of 2010
2010 has been a fantastic year for music, making it especially difficult for us to narrow our list down to 15. After much deliberation, we’ve made our choices and now bring you TUiW’s picks for the Best Songs of the … Continue reading
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TUiW Best of 2010: The 15 Best TV Episodes of 2010
Presented in no particular order, our 15 favorite episodes of TV from 2010. Mad Men – The Suitcase If there was one episode of television that may have won its stars an Emmy, it was “The Suitcase,” a beautifully performed, … Continue reading
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Please, Please, Please Watch Terriers Tonight
Do you know “The Way We Live Now,” the New York Times Magazine’s feature about indexing the peculiarities of modern life? We blog! We tweet! We lose our mortgages and pensions in a worldwide financial shell game! Supposedly the new … Continue reading
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TUIW Conversation: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Jonah: So, I don’t really know where to start with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the new album by an up-and-coming young artist named Kanye West. The ridiculous album art? The first perfect score from P4K in a decade? The … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Austin Film Festival: Day 7
Black Swan Review: If you feel like Darren Aronofsky may be softening, with the great but relatively straightforward The Wrestler and the news that he’s directing Wolverine 2, that’s just because you haven’t seen Black Swan, his batty new film … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Austin Film Festival: Day 6
Fair Game: Review: On Friday, Wikileaks released thousands and thousands of documents showing the Iraq War to be even more violent and poorly managed than we thought. Even as our presence there is decreasing (but still FAR from 0), it … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Austin Film Festival: Days 2-4
Blue Valentine Derek Cianfrance’s emotionally apocalyptic depiction of a crumbling marriage seems built to capture the arthouse zeitgeist. Combining two incredibly reliable actors (Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling) and borrowing from a number of different touchstones (500 Days’ of Summer‘s … Continue reading
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