Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

Alternate Headline: New York’s Most Finely Polished Turd Loses Its Luster

Quick question: Is Gossip a good thing or a band thing? Outside of a few media moguls, yellow newspapermen, daytime talk show hosts and their wannabes, the answer will be “no,” no matter who you ask. In most people’s day to day life, they don’t like being gossipped about whether or not the gossip bounty on [...]

Gwyneth Paltrow: Totem Of The Hipster Class Wars

Image by nyer82 via Flickr Before I had ever lived outside the East Coast, I was well familiar with Gwyneth Paltrow‘s life work and family scenario. I had frequently visited Williamstown Theatre Festival, founded by her dad, and my father’s favorite access was Blythe Danner, Paltrow’s mother. Shakespeare in Love, one of my favorite movies, [...]

Rock ‘N’ Roll Case Studies #4: Thoughts on the day Ron Asheton died

Image by RealLowVibe via FlickrIn the age when any dead famous person will shoot up to the top of Google Trends and inspire dozens of instant blog posts, one thing gets lost—what value does one dead famous person have over another? Death tracking on the Internet is nothing new, but it broke through to the [...]

How Michael Riedel is killing theater criticism

Watch this episode of Theater Talk very carefully. Michael Riedel, the instigator of most of the conversation, is not treating the death of theater criticism as a “what if” question. He’s treating it as a given. If the aforementioned death hasn’t happened already, it will, in Riedel’s viewpoint. Very subtly, he manipulates the conversation to [...]