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An architecture competition explores new uses for dead malls.

Frank Rich on living inside the Jayson Blair mediathon.

"Dumb comedy" from Animal House to Dumb and Dumberer.

The smart comedy of Ernst Lubitsch.

Reading Rainbow is in trouble and is still good.

Spike TV, a Maxim-inspired TV channel for men. What the hell is wrong with men?

Downloading classical music from iTunes (and Musicmaker). She's wrong in some respects: It's not that classical music can't be put in a database, it's that people don't design music databases to fit classical music. On the other hand designing the database would be hard, still wouldn't solve the problem, and would target a relatively small market.

Freaky: 3-D sculptures of Impressionist paintings.