New York City has been taking the death of chef-turned-television personality Anthony Bourdain especially hard: After all, he was one of their own, the son of a New York Times staff editor and a Columbia classical music executive who spent 20 years working his way up from a line cook to an executive chef at…
Whenever comic news junkie Seth Meyers pulls in a real newsperson to appear on Late Night, the war is always between talking shop and just swapping bewildered Trump putdowns. Meyers is therefore always happy to welcome CNN Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper. Especially as Tapper, pulling the Sunday morning…
In recent years, mental health advocates have been pushing for a small, but significant, change in the way we report on suicide: “Do not write ‘committed suicide’— the term is ‘died by suicide,’” organizations like the WHO suggest. That signals a shift away from the stigma that taking one’s own life is a hurtful,…
As the pop culture world continues to wrestle today with the sudden death of chef, world traveler, and boundlessly enthusiastic experience-seeker Anthony Bourdain, his home network has announced at least one of the ways it’ll be paying tribute to him. Per Deadline, CNN—which, since 2013, has served as the home of…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
During a recent Q&A session, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain casually dropped a reference to Quentin Tarantino as an example of why it can be bad to value money too much, explaining that he once turned down a lucrative merchandising deal because he and his producing partners weren’t “comfortable” with the person…
Karen Berger helped change the course of comic books. As an editor at DC Comics, she was instrumental in the development of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing and Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, two titles that showed off superhero comics’ potential for more sophisticated, provocative storytelling. In 1993, she founded the DC Comics…
Pretty much ever since he was declared the winner of the second season of The Next Food Network Star, Guy Fieri has been the punching bag of the celebrity chef world. With his frosted tips, plethora of catchphrases, and deep love of big sloppy plates of cheese and meat, Fieri is seen as the embodiment of everything…
Vertigo Comics founder Karen Berger left the publishing industry 20 years after providing a platform for some of the most inspired (and twisted) auteurs and artists, including Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Neil Gaiman, and Marc Hempel, as well as the many people who’ve worked on Hellblazer. (Vertigo’s also published many…
We were pretty high on Edgar Wright’s latest, the thrilling, rhythmic Baby Driver, but not everyone is sold on Wright’s subversive take on the musical. Take Anthony Bourdain, for example, who took a break from his Fourth Of July celebrations eating dog in the foothills of Mount Rinjani or wherever to tweet his review.
While appearing on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, Anthony Bourdain shot a web-exclusive video in which he offered his no-holds-barred opinions on some recent, generally annoying trends in the culinary world. The video, which seems to have been shot in one of 30 Rock’s spare bathrooms, features…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, December 4. All times are Eastern.
Anthony Bourdain is a worldly food guy with a reputation for being a chill badass who loves nothing more than to roam the world, hang out with famous people, and eat some funky stuff. Apparently, though, there is one thing that gets under his chill skin: Several minutes of heckling about the act of eating dog meat.…
It doesn’t seem like a simple sandwich should be able to raise issues of gentrification, cultural appropriation, and even racism. But all of these themes are at play in “Hometown Hero: The Legend Of New York’s Chopped Cheese,” a surprisingly heady 18-minute documentary from the editors of First We Feast. The focus…
Calling Anthony Bourdain a snob is like calling Hillary Clinton a career politician: While you might mean it as an insult, really it’s just a statement of fact. That’s their thing. It’s what they do. But while he may scoff at a subpar California roll stuffed with imitation crab meat, Bourdain has always been populist…
Although he’s no Diamond Joe Biden, President Barack Obama seems like a cool guy. In the last year (of his presidency), the Commander-In-Chief has chatted with Marc Maron about movies, successfully performed stand-up comedy for a notoriously tough room, and paid tribute to the late Prince—all of this despite not being…
Jamie Brew, head writer at the A.V. Club’s sister site ClickHole, can generate convincing Strokes lyrics or passable X-Files scripts seemingly at will. Presidential debate soundbites, Craigslist ads, and Anthony Bourdain soliloquies are no problem for Brew either. Examples of these and other bits of text-based comedy…
Anthony Bourdain’s food and travel series, Parts Unknown, returns to CNN this spring with all new episodes in all new cities. It’s been running five seasons so far, but Bourdain is only just now getting around to bringing his show to the city of Chicago, a true food mecca known as the home of a whole mess of sloppy,…
The premise of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown has always been easier to swallow if you’re an omnivore—the man loves meat and, shockingly enough, is usually able to find some cooking no matter the location into which he’s airdropped. But Bourdain doesn’t just dine and dash; he and his crew interview the chefs and…
