Colin McEnroe

  The 1960s were the last time music bled profusely across the border from Broadway to popular music. It was, paradoxically, not a very good decade for musicals, but, even so, a mildly musically...

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Nate Silver is tired of apologizing. Today, on the Nose, we’ll be talking about that. He was Mr. Infallible in 2008 and 2012. During this cycle, he has often appeared to have roughly the same g...

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Today on the Nose, we love the Olympics; but we also know them to be soiled, by doping and by the corruption that inevitably accompanies picking a location. But, as Juliet Macur aptly explains, e...

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OK, maybe I was a little harsh. Not that J.R. Romano is the least bit justified in capriciously denying convention access to a member of the working press. (And I’ll get into some details of th...

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That’s the most charitable explanation for the young Connecticut Republican state chairman’s utterly bizarre behavior on Seis de Mayo. It began with the news that J.R. Romano was denying pres...

http://courantblogs.com/colin-mcenroe/go-home-j-r-romano-youre-drunk/

At Trump events, the press has to stay inside a pen made of crowd control barricades, starting 15 minutes before the speech gets rolling. Prior to the arrival of DOTUS*, we are free to move about...

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Because both have used the Manafort family as general contractors. Politico reports that: Trump, who handed the reins of much of his campaign this week to strategist Paul Manafort in an effort to...

http://courantblogs.com/colin-mcenroe/why-is-trump-like-the-busway/

A few thoughts from not-an-actual-critic. If you are on the fence about seeing “Anything Goes” at the Goodspeed, get off the fence and go see it. I see a lot of theater and am familiar with ...

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Back in 1994, there was no Twitter. Maybe that’s why the rantings of Hunter S. Thompson, upon the death of Richard M. Nixon, really stood out. If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’...

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This is going to sound a little name-droppy, but I was interviewing Paula Poundstone Wednesday, and we got on the subject of Bob and Ray. We both grew up as comedy nerds and we both owned copies ...

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