not really fourth of july content but i found thus explanation of affordable housing financing in DC very informative.

PBS will live on in New Jersey! NJ PBS — which risked going dark in July — will now be managed by Montclair State University. "At a time when local journalism faces growing challenges, today's action keeps this essential service alive in New Jersey." newjerseyglobe.com/media/montcl... #PBS #TVSky

"The Garden" is an energizing reminder of how Deborah got to Madison Square Garden, and how the show got to the penultimate episode of its critically lauded, award-winning run: hard work and talent in equal measure.  www.avclub.com/hacks-recap-...

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

After being photographed with Tate at a recent UFC fight, Guy Fieri released a statement distancing himself from the infamous manosphere podcaster.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I watched ‘Love Story’ for the steely dowagers with immobile bouffants, learned matrons, socialite survivors, quiet optimizers of power, veteran observers of human nature,” Robin Givhan writes in a guest essay. “Theirs are the voices I won’t soon forget.”

We could all have a pretty great Tribute to Screenwriters Who Just Died triple-feature weekend and watch Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Candidate. Nobody would regret a minute of it. RIP Alan Trustman and Jeremy Larner.

David Harbour gives a fantastic performance in DTF St. Louis. Our review of HBO's very funny new miniseries:

"This tool has undoubtedly leveled up my cooking, and my crispy, golden-brown grilled cheese sandwiches are proof of that."

I was totally joking about this and now an editor at the Dispatch has made it a whole op Ed.

“Good f**king riddance,” one staffer told @nataliekorach.bsky.social. “Will’s legacy can be summed up as nothing more than having destroyed an institution in American media.” Go inside The Washington Post after CEO/publisher Will Lewis' abrupt exit: www.status.news/p/washington...

The good news is you don’t have to spend a lot to get a pen that’s worthy of your signature. After researching 62 pens and writing zealously with 37 of them, we have recommendations that are affordable and satisfying to write with.

Amount of time devoted to MN and fallout Sunday on network newscasts: NBC: 8.5 minutes ABC: 7 minutes CBS: 4 minutes Only NBC led with the news from MN

Two and half minutes. That’s all the time the CBS Evening News thought today’s events in Minneapolis were worth. Not even time to tell viewers what Alex Pretti did for a living. The winter storm got 8 minutes. NBC Nightly News spent 8 minutes, nearly half the show, on Pretti’s killing

Dr. King did amazing things, but often we only talk about his successes. Dr. King also had some "failures", and they are important to discuss because we often learn a great deal from failure. And failure can inform or grow a movement, like Albany, Georgia's failure did for Dr. King. /1

Update — Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like:

now listening while i make dinner youtu.be/nHs2sQOHX-0?...

Cherones' filmography is a laundry list of some of the most beloved sitcom episodes of all time, including "The Chinese Restaurant" and "The Contest." www.avclub.com/tom-cherones...

(they've been able to do this for literally decades! I posted a video on how to selectively mute Tim McCarver in like 2009!)

I highly recommend the audiobook. Unless you really have to "read" it. The audiobook is very entertaining.

Pluto still has a dedicated Happy Days channel that I assume still plays L&S, so if you don’t mind random episodes and about 15 minutes of ads per hour, that’s an option.

So I am that very rare person (at least for another week or two) who can say that I watched the US remake of DOC MARTIN--Fox's BEST MEDICINE-- before seeing a moment of the original. Well, I've now seen the first episode of the UK series and... I like them both! Plots are remarkably similar, btw.

Back in 1975, the FCC implemented a short-lived rule which required nets to air family-friendly programming from 8-9 pm. It only lasted two years, but CBS had to move All in the Family to 9 pm. Norman Lear and the cast responded with this awesome remake of the show’s theme: youtu.be/IvrIltxWnS0?...

He may be Chevy Chase, but Yvette Nicole Brown would like you to keep her name out your mouth.

The staff of The New York Times Book Review chose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Take a look. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...

Our staff sifted through and tested dozens of this year’s most promising cookbooks to find the titles that not only offer top-notch recipes and stunning photography, but also deliver insight and guidance that can change how you cook every day.

Toby Morton, a comedy writer who has worked on “South Park,” secured a certain web domain months ago, while President Trump was working to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Now, after Trump’s name was added on the facade, Morton’s parody website is drawing attention.

Justin and Christian Combs are the focus of the latest docuseries about Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial.

Please do not bring back Mark Harris, The Man from Atlantis. I have finally put ninth grade behind me. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Save The Date! #TCMRemembers Diane Keaton on Sunday, January 25th: 12:30p - FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1991) 2:30p - REDS (1981) 6p - MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (1993) 8p - ANNIE HALL (1977) 10p - BABY BOOM (1987) (times Eastern) #TCMParty ^JW

Save The Date! #TCMRemembers Rob Reiner on Wednesday, January 28th: 8p - THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)** 10p - WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989) 12a - STAND BY ME (1986) 1:45a - THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984) (times Eastern; **TCM premier) #TCMParty ^JW

BD’s top official tick-tock of the bidding process — in a nutshell it slams Ellison for violating confidentiality agreements by leaking to a “reporter,” failing to provide a backstop for financing (aka an Irrevocable trust is not a person) and Saudi $$$ www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Hulu's Handmaid's Tale sequel show puts Lucy Halliday, Ann Dowd, and the One Battle After Another star front and center. www.avclub.com/testaments-f...

To me it's an extinction issue. If Paramount buys Warner Bros., Warner Bros. no longer exists in any form in three years, which does at least as much damage to theatrical as a Netflix purchase will do. At least with Netflix's immense revenue, there's a chance--just a chance--for a better outcome.

I think the Netflix deal is ultimately better for movies and for WB than a Paramount deal (which I 100% believe would end WB) or a Comcast deal (which would take the two best-functioning studios in Hollywood and reduce them to one). I'm open to arguments, but "None of the above" isn't one.

‘The Chair Company’ is a show about how fun it is to use the computer: defector.com/the-chair-co...

The Hamnet director also revealed she presented Sarah Michelle Gellar with a very sweet gift: A recreation of her old "Class Protector" trophy. www.avclub.com/buffy-chloe-...

watching this john frankenheimer HBO movie on the johnson presidency — “Path to War” — and i think michael gambon might have the best on screen depiction of LBJ

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

Since the pandemic, private equity firms have been aggressively rolling up home remodeling and roofing companies. A couple of weeks ago, one of the largest platforms abruptly collapsed. I found out what happened, and explain what it means: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...

@eddiemuller.bsky.social FYI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvQI...

In Opinion | “By not shying away from the less glamorized settings of New York City,” Zaina Arafat writes, Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign “was able to connect first to our shared humanity.”

If your idea of L.A. includes an endless parade of vapid, self-centered twentysomethings, this show is ready to prove that parodic vision of the city correct. www.avclub.com/i-love-la-re...

The insult-heavy, relentlessly pro-conservative Fox News show “Gutfeld!” pulls in an average of over three million viewers a night. On “The Interview,” Greg Gutfeld discussed how his show has become so dominant. Watch, read or listen to the full conversation.

A brutal, precise, and delightful dismissal.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Maureen Dowd asks: Can “cool male friendship ads” — Zach Braff and Donald Faison pushing T-Mobile, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson selling Salesforce, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro for Moncler — serve as positive examples amid an epidemic of male loneliness?