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Next-Gen Starts When We Say It Does
25 May 2012, 2:12 pm
You're reading Reaction Time , a weekly column that claims to examine recent events, games and trends in the industry, but is really just looking for an excuse to use the word "zeitgeist." It debuts on Fridays in Engadget's digital magazine, Distro . If the world does come to a wailing and irreversible halt in 2012, the most terrible loss (besides billions of lives, the infrastructure of ...
A Wes Anderson 'Kingdom' Full Of Beautiful Imagery
25 May 2012, 10:42 am
Wes Anderson's latest film is the story of a 12-year-old girl and boy who merge their imaginative worlds on an island off the coast of New England. Critic David Edelstein says Moonrise Kingdom will appeal to Anderson's longtime fans as well as anyone who appreciates good cinematography and design.
Nonfiction’s ‘meta’ moment
23 May 2012, 6:12 am
The word “meta” has become an inescapable part of the pop culture zeitgeist. In early May, the Boston Globe published a column by Ben Zimmer about the word’s seeming omnipresence.
Summer Film Guide: Rooftop Films and Spaghetti Westerns
22 May 2012, 4:41 pm
BAMcinemaFest June 20 through July 1 An undeniably essential collection of emerging indie talent (as recently vetted by Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, Rotterdam, and other prestigious stops on the festival circuit), BAMcinématek's fourth annual showcase of new American cine...
NBC renews ‘Community,’ ‘30 Rock,’ ‘Parenthood’ [UPDATED]
10 May 2012, 6:54 pm
NBC , which will unveil its primetime schedule for next season to advertisers on Monday , this afternoon picked up a 13-episode season of “Community” and of “30 Rock” – the award winning-est of NBC’s Thursday comedy lineup once famously known as Must See TV, but these days better known as self-referential TV. Read full article >>
Lindsay Lohan settles with Betty Ford worker
7 May 2012, 4:42 pm
It seems every day we're forced to write some snide, self-referential item about Lindsay Lohan being in trouble, so The Juice* is pretty glad LiLo decided to settle with that Betty Ford worker who said Lohan beat her up back when she was in rehab. We don't remember which time. Dawn Holland accused Lindsay of "twisting and pulling it for 8-10 seconds" in 2010 when the actress came home to the ...
Beautiful Evil: Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Mannes Opera
7 May 2012, 3:20 am
Is it possible to thwart evil, when evil is rich, beautiful and clever? Western writers asked that question in the form of nearly two thousand variants of the "Don Juan" story, of which one - Wolfgang Mozart's opera Don Giovanni - holds modern audiences spellbound; it premiered in October 1787.
This Story Is So 'Meta'
5 May 2012, 4:27 pm
Why has 'meta' become a catch-all adjective for a culture that's increasingly self-referential, self-conscious, and self-parodying? Linguist Ben Zimmer says we're living in truly meta times.
World - self-referential
Disobey this command - Livemint.com
24 May 2012, 9:32 am
Go ahead, check it, I’ll wait. All correct, I trust? Statements like that are called “ self-referential”, meaning they speak about themselves. Like this sentence you are reading right now. In fact, this is a self-referential sentence too. They are a ...
Neural activity associated with self-reflection - BioMed Central
24 May 2012, 6:04 am
self-referential cognitions are important for self-monitoring and self-regulation. Previous studies have addressed the neural correlates of self-referential processes in response to or related to external stimuli. We here investigated brain activity ...
Is it time to retire the Family Guy? - The Guardian
17 May 2012, 5:37 am
Yet a few manage to stumble on into their zombie years; the show having degenerated into a shambling, self-referential corpse, existing merely because it can, not because it should. And after 10 seasons – and an 11th confirmed earlier this ...
Nothing comes of not much in ‘title of show’ - Chicago Sun-Times
15 May 2012, 8:48 pm
Be careful what you wish for. ‘title of show’ is an unabashedly self-referential story about the very process of creating a musical “from scratch” (with no books or movies to serve as a source). A quirky, post-modern sort of notion ...
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