Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
- Did the major television networks collaborate together on deciding to give live coverage to President Trump’s border wall speech? Kinda looks like it. They all gave coverage to 45’s speech, and they all declined to give coverage to President Obama’s immigration speech…
- Why did the Washington Post’s national food correspondent change the name of his restaurant reviews? For years, the WaPo‘s Tim Carman has published reviews under the title The $20 Diner. But earlier this month, he dropped that label because he didn’t want to imply that the many wonderful and tasty food cultures he covered should just be considered “cheap eats.” Tim writes: “I’ve had to ask myself uncomfortable questions, such as: Isn’t lumping certain cuisines under a cheap-eats banner only contributing to their low-class status? Am I not kneecapping, say, Central American cooks who toil in almost every kitchen in the District? Am I not telling these cooks that we, as Washingtonians, will never pay the same price for a Salvadoran, Guatemalan or Puerto Rican meal as we do for that plate of charred brassicas with mint chimichurri at the fancy New American restaurant where these immigrants are currently employed?”
- Why did Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda and his production team buy a theatrical bookstore in Times Square? Because the struggling store was where he went as a young man to read play scripts when he couldn’t afford to buy them. And because he wrote much of a draft of his first success, In The Heights, there.
