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Just saw the new Domino's spot, and damn. Damn. When most companies say they want to change the brand they change the logo, or the sloga...

This is the time of year when we are inundated with lists, and this being the end of the decade, it's worse than usual. It's easy to...

While on tour way back in 2004, They Might Be Giants wrote and recorded a song for every venue they played. The resulting songs were releas...

I remember a long time ago sitting mesmerized by Twyla Tharp's The Catherine Wheel , set to the music of David Byrne. Almost as interest...

While wing-nut crowd celebrates Chicago's failure to become the host city for the 2016 Olympic Games as some massive world-wide repudiat...

In case you didn't notice, Michael Moore is at it again. His new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story seems to be following the templa...

I haven't paid attention to MTV in years. When they stopped playing music videos, I stopped watching. I've never watched MTV's V...

Usually I hate the commercials for Kohler . Usually their spot s are as impractical and pretentious as the products they sell. Plumbing as a...

If you happened to be out in West Conshohocken, at the Calvary Cemetery on Thursday, you might have had a chance to see Jeff Lurie and Rog...

The news that NBC O&O's are gutting their in-house promotions departments should come as no surprise. They're already cut back...

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Bill Baylis?

It was 30 years ago, today. Jimmy Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech. More commonly known at The Malaise Speech (though the word mala...