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Media
August 3, 2007
Anti-PC Ts
Possibly the only thing more American than a deep-fried Snickers bar is a silly charge of political incorrectness. So Latinos in the US should consider the outrage at a new Macy's T-shirt bearing the phrase "Brown is the New White" as a sign that they, too, can join the hand-wringing fiesta. (You've come a long way, bebé.) Macy's has since recalled the tee, but the suggestion that Americans of Hispanic origin have finally achieved the status of whites has upset some Latinos, such as Fox's "Hispanic marketing expert" Dr. Ed Rincon. (Of course, other Latinos, including those at Gawker-esque Latino gossip site Guanabee, are reveling in their heretofore unexercised right to a cheesy ironic T-shirt.) In the spirit of righteous indignation, we hereby offer our own mini-catalog of controversial shirts.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Sports
July 31, 2007
Walkoff Articles
For decades sportswriters have conferred mythic status upon star athletes. And there is no greater image of American myth than the lone cowboy, riding off into the sunset. Therefore, it should come as little surprise that in the pages of Sports Illustrated, for want of a better ending, athlete profiles often conclude with their subjects slipping away into the great unknown, ready to face the challenges that await them on the horizon. Gelf chronicles some of the recent modern-day cowboys to slip off into the night, or into the great wide open.
Varsity Letters
July 30, 2007
Varsity Letters 8/1 Interviews
Three sports-book authors will be speaking at a free Gelf event in New York on Wednesday, August 1, at 8 p.m. Come by the Happy Ending Lounge to hear writers Sally Jenkins, Seth Mnookin, and Joe Posnanski read from and discuss their writing.
Media
July 30, 2007
Grading the Box Office
Of the goofy things that many media outlets regularly report on, Hollywood box-office numbers are perhaps the silliest. There's little connection between these numbers and the quality of the films (duh) or even how much profit the films will end up making. (As Slate's David Edelstein points out, the high cost of advertising means that most films lose money at the box office.) Even if we're to give some sort of merit to these numbers, the fact that these receipts are measured only in non-adjusted dollar amounts means that we today's numbers have a major built-in advantage to those of previous years.
Arts
July 26, 2007
Reviewers on 'The Simpsons Movie': 'The Lesson Is, Never Try'
The Simpsons Movie is about to open, which means that the world's newspapers are now flooded with reviews packed to the gills with our favorite Simpsonisms. (Or at least the ones that translate relatively unawkwardly to headlines; so far, we haven't come across any reviews titled, "This Movie Smells Like Cat Food.") But as Slate points out today, reviewers have already tapped into characters like Mr. Burns for inspiration, even if they can't seem to agree on whether the movie was any good or not:
Varsity Letters
July 19, 2007
August 1: Varsity Letters Reading Series
New York's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Wednesday, August 1 at 8 p.m. At this free monthly event at a Lower East Side bar, hosted by Gelf, Sally Jenkins, Seth Mnookin, and Joe Posnanski will read from and talk about their work, and take questions. In their new books, Jenkins traces the formation and outrageous football success of an experimental school for Native Americans; Mnookin provides an inside look at the Boston Red Sox front office during the team's 2004 run to the title; and Posnanski tells the story of Buck O'Neil and the Negro Leagues.
Sports
July 19, 2007
When a Pitcher Works in Consort With a Concept
Earlier this season, Gelf spotlighted the cliché-ridden baseball coverage of Mets.com beat writer Marty Noble. Among a crowded field of excitable sportswriters, Noble stands apart, like a beacon of banality in a bromide ocean. After the jump, Gelf shares a few more of our favorite Noble moments from the 2007 season.
Media
July 16, 2007
Spreading Satire on CNN
For the past week or so, Michael Moore has been very upset with CNN. He claims that a "Fact Check" segment on The Situation Room intentionally misled viewers into believing he was monkeying around with healthcare numbers in Sicko. This weekend, Moore again demanded an apology from the network and declared, "I'm about to become your worst nightmare." And yet the network may be in for more Moore ridicule if he hasn't yet spotted a more-recent—and more-obviously ridiculous—claim made about him on the channel.
Food
July 9, 2007
When Fake Food Becomes Fact
This past weekend, to promote the upcoming Simpsons Movie, 7-Eleven transformed a dozen of its stores in various parts of the country into full-fledged Kwik-E-Marts, the convenience store from the TV show. While these stores will go back to being 7-Elevens soon, several other stores first seen in television and movies have been reified as lasting tributes to the fiction that inspired them.
Media
July 3, 2007
(Hot) Dog Without His Bite
This past week, Japanese competitive-eating star Takeru Kobayashi, most famous for his one-time world record for eating 53¾ hot dogs in 12 minutes, announced that he has been diagnosed with jaw arthritis, which may hamper his performance at the upcoming Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, the Super Bowl of eating competitions. A slew of food and jaw-related headlines were plastered on news outlet all over the internet. Here are some of Gelf's favorites for you to chew on:
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