Bravo in the Flesh

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Thousands of romantics, driven to the desert. This year, the reality-television network Bravo held its third annual fan conference, BravoCon, in Las Vegas, dumping the Javits Center, its previous locale, for…

The Cassette-Tape Revolution

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play…

Siskel, Ebert, and the Secret of Criticism

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, who went on the air together for the first time in 1975, have been off the air for a long time now. Siskel died in 1999,…