This Is Getting Scary

In a single stroke of the “Publish” button , Gawker confirms our suspicions that they are copy-catting our focus on the critics. Here’s their third post in seven days (here’s 1, and 2) that deals with the critical cosmos. But we can’t hate it totally cuz we discovered that New York Times pop music [...]

November 20, 2007
Categories: Blogs, Critics, Gawker, Pop Music . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments

Gawker Cares

Holy crap. Another critic makes the Gawker gossip spotlight (here’s the first one). This time, it’s hometown theater critic, Charles Isherwood, who apparently tried to tear certain striking playwrights a new hole, and ended up getting his own hole blown out by supposed layabout playwright, Jon Robin Baitz. According to Gawker:
Dreamboat playwright, blogger, and writer [...]

November 16, 2007
Categories: Blogs, Critics, Gawker, NY Times, Pop Culture, TV, Theater . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 1 Comment

Notes On A Scandal

Criticism makes its Gawker debut today because of Washington Post classical music critic Tim Page’s personal email defaming former D.C. mayor, Marion Barry. Page sent a sassed reply back to an email blast sent by Barry’s publicist, calling Barry a “Crack Addict” and then offering this bit of facetious soul searching:
“I cannot think of anything [...]

November 13, 2007
Categories: Classical Music, Critics, Gawker . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 2 Comments

Media Fare

Okay, okay. You got us, Tonya Plank! As some of you might have already guessed, C.C. is definitely built on the Gawker model of media vulturizing. Although, we like to think our standards lie somewhere nice and cozy in between high brow criticism and low brow gossip-mongering: the media taint, if you will.
And [...]

October 26, 2007
Categories: Blogs, Critics, Gawker, New York Mag . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments

More Fat = More Flavor

I found this article by Paul Ben-Itzak on danceinsider.com.
It’s clear that fashions change with the tide, and we’re certainly going through one of the more dangerous eras of taste when it comes to body-image (See this Gawker post about an appalling–and quite recent–piece from the Times Style section).
I find it complicating to correlate body [...]

May 22, 2007
Categories: Dance, Gawker, NY Times, Photography . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments