Looking back on our first week of “feeding off the work of others“:
• You know where to look for comprehensive Baldwin coverage.
• We watched Ugly Betty, Lost, America’s Next Top Model, House, The Shield, American Idol, Heroes, Drive, The Sopranos, and Entourage so you didn’t have to. Plus, a ton of reality TV.
• Take a trip to Harry Potter Land, and identify your daemon.
• Clipse, Hot Chip, and Jarvis Cocker put on some great shows. And Björk’s new album wasn’t bad, either.
• Chuck Palahniuk’s latest outrage and a fantastic new graphic novel.
• Porn stars love Wagner, A.O. Scott hates Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, and Jonathan Lethem hates black people (according to the hecklers at the EMP Conference).
• Opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival, and a Dirty Dancing party.
• We talked to Fall Out Boy about their new bar and to Kevin Connolly about the real-life Ari.
• Robert De Niro and David Bowie: enemies! Michael Chabon and Barack Obama: allies!
• Offensive language in hip-hop, from Russell Simmons’s perspective and from the perspective of 400 morons.