Ira Glass of public radio’s This American Life hangs up on reporters. But only, in this Columbia Journalism Review interview, to parody Robert Novak—and it’s all in fun, fun of the sincere kind that we’ve come to expect of Glass.
Glass fascinates at least three separate times in this piece. First, as he reflects on […]
Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood is leaving Berlin, for who knows where. She dressed the Sex Pistols in the ’70s, and in 1984 she said something that would make a sassy epitaph for this queen of punk:
“Sometimes you need to transport your idea to a world that doesn’t exist and then populate it with fantastic-looking people.”
Know […]
Dave Chapelle is here in South Africa. No wonder no one could find him.
I still don’t know who he is, as I don’t catch much American TV these days, yet he keeps parading through my headlines day after day, a sensation so singular it deserves a name.
The Ryan Seacrest Effect. Watch for it in […]