RIP Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez died yesterday in Mexico City. He was 87 years old.

Music Review – Ingrid Michaelson’s Lights Out

Ingrid Michaelson’s Lights Out dropped on Tuesday. I was nervous about this album after hearing the first single, “Girls Chase Boys,” a song that in a lot of ways exacerbated my largest problem with Michaelson’s output to date: namely, her penchant for combining interesting music with tepid lyrics.

Mid-Season Check-In: Hannibal

This week marks the mid-point of the second season of NBC’s Hannibal, Bryan Fuller’s devilishly delightful translation of source material from the novelist Thomas Harris. I think this is the best drama on television (HBO’s Game of Thrones and FX’s The Americans are jockeying hard for the second spot, Justified has badly faded after an electric fourth season, and while Mad Men is impressive it is not, nor has it ever been, the best drama on television).

In Memoriam: How I Met Your Mother

As you surely know, if you pay even casual attention to television, CBS aired the series finale of How I Met Your Mother (hereafter, HIMYM) last night. Hundreds of thousands of words have already been written about this series on an expansive set of issues ranging from the academic to the knee-jerk impulsive. That won’t stop me from kicking in my own two cents, of course. Not least because I find myself in disagreement with the majority of internet commentators who suggested that this finale broke from the emotional register of the rest of the show.