December Archives

  • Episode 39: The Best of 2009

    December 30, 2009 3:54 PM
    Episodes

    This Week: What do Lamont Dozier, Dr. Albert Hoffman, Swine Flu business suits, Girls and deep-fried butter have in common? They all appeared on the Dinner Party Download this year, and they're all in our annual Best Of episode. Plus Jonathan Coulton breaks the ice... and download Rico's favorite tune of the year from rocker Benjy Ferree. Read more...

  • Transformers II: Art lovers 0, review lovers 10

    Rico Gagliano
    December 29, 2009 10:40 AM
    Movies

    I couldn’t help but notice this the last time I moseyed electronically past Yahoo news: TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Total Gross: $402,111,870 Autobots battled Decepticons to the top of the box office, not only becoming the top earning movie... Read more...

  • Best of 2009 -- you tell us

    Rico Gagliano
    December 29, 2009 9:22 AM
    Cocktails , Food , History , Jokes , People

    The air is crisp, the Times Square Ball has been adorned with spankin’ new waterford crystal, and it has become temporarily impossible for journos like ourselves to get sources to return phone calls. Must be New Year’s week. And so... Read more...

  • Coolest Beatle: Ringo?

    Rico Gagliano
    December 24, 2009 9:44 AM
    Artists , Music , Small Talk

    Our guest blogger today is Steve Thornton — owner and operator of The Indiepop List, an online forum for lovers of pop music, particularly in the Belle & Sebastian vein. That’s where Steve first posted this vigorous defense of Ringo,... Read more...

  • Episode 38: Terry Gilliam, Japanese Heists and Cupcakes for Grownups

    December 18, 2009 3:30 PM
    Episodes
    photo courtesy Sony Pictures

    This Week: Filmmaker Terry Gilliam holds the devil at bay... We learn about Japan's most infamous heist... and Brendan meets a cupcake he actually likes. PLUS the Pixies' Black Francis breaks the ice... and download a song from rock orchestra Citay. Read more...

  • Welcome!

    Brendan Francis Newnam
    December 18, 2009 2:33 PM
    Small Talk

    For the past few months we’ve been camping out at our Facebook Fan Page and crashing at Twitter, but today we finally have a place to call our own: Welcome to the Dinner Party Download’s new home on the web.... Read more...

  • Google to Swallow Yelp?

    Nihar Patel
    December 18, 2009 1:04 PM
    Food

    Google has been eyeing the web’s most democratic (and often most obnoxious) review site. Some deets from Bloomberg: Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, is in talks to acquire the do-it-yourself review site Yelp Inc.... Read more...

  • Fuzzy Screw Bomb

    Kris Holechek Peters
    December 18, 2009 1:04 PM
    Recipes , japanese beer , peach schnapps , soju

    This week back in 1968, one of the coolest capers in criminal history went down, when a thief in Japan made off with 300 million Yen without firing a shot. Learn all about the heist, then pound down the drink it inspired. Read more...

  • National Cupcake Day

    Nihar Patel
    December 15, 2009 12:37 PM
    Food , Trends

    Today is National Cupcake Day. It may also be August 18th, or October 18th. Perhaps it’s a sign of how widespread cupcake-phenia has spread that we have multiple people creating fake holidays around it. While we’ll be eating pie today,... Read more...

  • Extinction Level Event

    Kris Holechek Peters
    December 4, 2009 12:59 PM
    Recipes , butterescotch liqueur , guinness , half-and-half , jagermeister , kahlua

    A star falls in Alabama and the "Extinction Level Event" This week back in 1954, Alabama housewife Annie Hodges earned a dubious distinction: She became the first person in recorded history to get hit by a meteorite. Read more...

  • Episode 37: George Saunders, New Look Turkey Sandwich, Getting Hit On By A Star

    December 4, 2009 12:27 PM
    Episodes
    photo courtesy Syracuse University

    This Week: Writer George Saunders pitches a tent... an Alabama housewife gets hit on by a star... and a famed deli just can't quit cold turkey. Read more...

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    • Hosts Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam

      The Dinner Party Download is a fast and funny ‘booster shot’ of news and culture designed to help you dazzle your friends and family at this weekend’s dinner party. Hosts Rico Gagliano and Brendan Francis Newnam set the table every Friday. Hear what our guests are saying about us inside... more

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