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Новости за 13.05.2016

New York Observer 

The ‘Eurovision Song Contest’: A Primer for Dumb Americans

The European Song Contest is like American Idol in its heyday, if you took every boring white guy with a guitar and replaced him with a techno dancer in drag and also everyone were huffing glue. It’s a visual orgasm of sequins and visual effects that one can only hope to understand through excessive YouTube research of previous acts. And tomorrow it's airing live in America for the first time.

New York Observer 

Dion at the Y

The Bronx-born crooner, dressed all in black with a black beret type hat once ignominiously termed a "floppy cap” by The New York Times with no regard for the man’s swaggering sense of style, is pushing 80, though he patently still has it.

New York Observer 

The Toast Will Close July 1

Nicole Cliffe and Mallory Ortberg will stop regularly adding new content, though the site will remain online,

New York Observer 

WNET’s Neal Shapiro Laments the Loss of the Public Intellectual

"We do live in a different time when people like the Kardashians who have no discernible talent are huge celebrities. In the ’50s and ’60s, people like Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer were celebrated. There’s less of that now," says Neal Shapiro.