“What’s on TV? For Many Americans, It’s Now YouTube – People spent nearly 10% of their TV-viewing time watching the service, home to videos by creators like MrBeast” Free link: https://t.ly/C7uPU Seems obvious from afar, but the devil is in the details. Yes, people are all over YouTube on their smartphones, on their tablets and […]

It’s a cultural phenomenon. And it wasn’t built by the press, but word of mouth. And it was dropped all at once, it wasn’t about marketing, maintaining subscriptions over months, the work stood alone. And it wasn’t a trifle, like “Ted Lasso.” “Baby Reindeer” fits no preordained slot. But it’s the biggest thing in media […]

Netflix trailer: https://t.ly/kpQ5k It’s creepy. And slow. And in black and white. And if this bothers you, stay away. But if in college you watched foreign films from the sixties, this will feel totally familiar. The first thing you’ll notice is the black and white. Honestly, I thought it would be like “The Wizard of […]

We’re here for a hundredth birthday concert for Henry Mancini. L’Aquila is somewhere between one and two hours from Rome, depending on the traffic. It’s in the Apennine mountains. (You remember them from elementary school, right? Well, I remembered they were in Italy, but I couldn’t have picked them out on a map, nor did […]