Looks really matter

I got into newspapers in high school because I liked the way they look. In college, I chose writing and editing over design, but two decades later I keep wondering if I made the right choice. We’ve been attempting a bit of visual branding with some of my longer reviews/essays about television in the Style…

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SNL Homowatch: 5/8 (Betty White!)

[Author’s Note: This is my “SNL Homowatch,” where I count and try to make sense of Saturday Night Live‘s endless obsession with making jokes about gay people and gay sex, without letting gay writers or gay performers have a go at the joke themselves. It’s a cycle I call enlightened homophobia — jokes about gays,…

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