Dining Out With Food Allergies
For people with allergies, food becomes something to fear, especially in restaurants.… More »
Alyssa Rosenberg is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. She is the pop culture blogger for ThinkProgress, where she writes about the intersection of politics and culture at thinkprogress.org/alyssa. More
Alyssa Rosenberg is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. She is the pop culture blogger for ThinkProgress, where she writes about the intersection of politics and culture at http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa.
Alyssa is also a columnist for the Washington Monthly and The Loop 21. Her career as a critic began at 8, when she began a children's book review column for her local paper, taking payments in gift certificates to the neighborhood bookstore. Since then, her interests have expanded to include Atlanta hip-hop, procedural television shows, and action movies she watches without any sense of irony whatsoever. Her writing on culture has appearedin Esquire.com, The Daily, The Daily Beast and the American Prospect, and she has written about politics and the executive branch for Government Executive, The New Republic and National Journal.
For people with allergies, food becomes something to fear, especially in restaurants.… More »
[Alyssa Rosenberg]I was reading Dwayne's post on Juvenile Life Without Parole this morning, and the last paragraph really stood out me:"I don't think our justice system has evolved to something more productive and effective than it was fifty or a hundred years ago. In most other industrialized nations, life is something conceivable like 30 years or 50 years, and parole is an option. These nations have lower incarceration rates than the US - they have less crime.…… More »
[Alyssa Rosenberg]Today, Adam and Ta-Nehisi have things to say about Ricci, and I'm happy to let them talk about the decision. But because we'll get a pile of legal analysis today, I want to step back a little bit and talk about New Haven as a town, and what it meant to me. New Haven is to me what fatherhood is to Ta-Nehisi, I think, and because it's in the news today, even in a tangential way, I'd like to talk about the town a little.Why am I qualified to talk…… More »
[Alyssa Rosenberg]I'm having trouble embedding it, but seriously, go watch Steve Martin parodying the Billie Jean video. If Michael's gift was his grace, Martin's is his awkwardness, and his utter lack of fear in exploiting it for our pleasure. The video makes Michael's talent clear by showing how awkward and gawky those moves would have been if they were performed by anyone else.Parenthetically, things like that video make me wonder what's going on in Martin's…… More »
[Alyssa Rosenberg]Many thanks to Ta-Nehisi for letting me hang out here this week and represent the ladies. In my day job, I'm a staff correspondent at Government Executive, The Atlantic's sister publication about government management, and on the side, I write about pop culture for The Atlantic's website and do some other freelancing. I like science fiction, comics, British television dramas, unusual women singers, fast rhymes, baking, and bourbon. I'll get…… More »
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A genre that once thrived by flipping off authority now has a place on the president's iPod. Where does rap go from here?… More »
From Star Trek and Transformers to X-Men and Terminator, four sci fi blockbusters show that Hollywood has found its inner geek. And that’s a good thing.… More »
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The creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly has shown an uncanny understanding of female psychology. But in his new TV show, Dollhouse, the characters so far feel plastic.… More »
Articles by Walt Kelly and others on the Yellow Kid, superhero comics, Art Spiegelman, and more… More »
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