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  • June 2008
    • Choose Your Own Adventure, This American Life Style

      Choose Your Own Adventure, This American Life Style

      (Newser) - This American Life , providing "a valuable census of liberal America's cultural consciousness since 1996," comes in for a little ribbing from Walker Boyd in Radar . Boyd  spoofs Ira Glass's radio and TV narratives with a Mad Libs-type story generator. Now "your dreams of Ira narrating some touching yet inoffensive slice of your middle- to upper-class existence can become a reality," he writes. Some slices thereof: More »

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      satire   Ira Glass   This American Life

  • May 2008
    • Magic of 'This American Life' Returns to Small Screen

      Magic of 'This American Life' Returns to Small Screen

      (Newser) - The stories on the small-screen version of “This American Life” start out small—a husband’s protest over the oppressive American trend of lawn-mowing, a young man living with spinal muscular atrophy—and become something universal, both dark and light, even a little magical, writes Heather Havrilesky on Salon.com. On the second season, which premieres tonight on Showtime, everyday snapshots of people’s lives become art. More »

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      television   art   radio   biography   Showtime   Ira Glass   This American Life

  • December 2007
  • November 2007
    • Sexiest Men: Salon Adds Steak to Sizzle

      Sexiest Men: Salon Adds Steak to Sizzle

      (Newser) - With only the the briefest nod to that other Sexiest Men Alive list, Salon offers its second annual alternative compilation of hot guys—proving that it all depends on what the meaning of hot is. Jon Hamm, Ira Glass, Jacques Pepin, Judd Apatow, and 22 others make the cut. And except for a few obvious throwaways (Matt Damon, Owen Wilson, Britt Daniel), they all come with rather unusual rationales. More »

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      celebrity   list   Cate Blanchett   awards   Matt Damon   Ira Glass

  • March 2007

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