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Deputy Features Editor at The Washington Post. Formerly the TV critic; before that, features writer. Author of two books. What else can I tell you.

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5 years
My thing about #Outlander is that, at its core, it's about a woman and a man who actually listen to one another. No wonder people love it -- when was the last time anybody really heard what you were saying?
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4 years
Somebody great is driving around, brandishing the DC flag, blasting a Rickroll. Never gonna give you up, Washington.
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And then there’s this
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I wonder how all those HGTV families who insisted on open floor plans feel about it now.
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3 years
On #AlexTrebek . This is why I always like to write an Appreciation in the moment, instead of in advance like a straight obit. This moment is about celebrating intelligence and competence; so oddly meaningful that this is when the universe claimed him.
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4 years
On #Outlander this season (why aren't you watching it already?), Claire has been trying to make penicillin in the 1770s. Should she be monkeying around with the time-space continuum? HELL YES. More thoughts from this Outmander here:
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9 years
I love everything about Justice Kennedy's opinion except, of course, the double spaces after each period. Our struggle is not over.
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4 years
THIS goes out to all the girls in the class of '86, from the boy who loved you best.😎-->> Review | For too long, @OfficialGoGos story was a cautionary tale. A new documentary turns it into a triumph.
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4 years
Today I reached a point where I don't want to read stories about small-biz owners panicked about making the April rent. Instead: WHO ARE THESE LANDLORDS, who think the rent/eviction paradigm is workable right now, and believe it's better to have NO tenants when this passes?
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3 years
As it happened, I spent Thanksgiving 1997 alone, by choice (or social inertia). I was 29, single. I made pasta and listened to Yo La Tengo and finished reading "Angela's Ashes." Point is, if you're alone today, you'll remember it and you will be okay. I'm thinking of you.
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This afternoon, we began correcting the original sin of @washingtonpost 's digital existence: no Style section. No way for readers to experience the mix of culture, politics, arts, media and weirdness that has defined Style in print for 50+ years. 1/3
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5 years
I am utterly, completely taken and charmed by Netflix's dazzling @DarkCrystal , and you know me, I'm usually a grump about these kinds of things.
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3 years
Tis true, I am stepping down as The Post's TV critic at the end of the year, and into a great new gig: senior editor for Style. I have LOVED being the TV critic, but I also think it's important to know when you've said all you can say about a thing.
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3 years
Replace me! The Washington Post is looking for its next TELEVISION CRITIC. This is a biggie that rarely comes open. An amazing opportunity for an experienced critic to push it in a whole new direction. Details here:
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4 years
There shouldn't have been a baseball season. People should not be going to restaurants and bars, even patios. Your road trip, your backyard get-togethers aren't safe. School attendance should be out of the question, incl college campuses. Flights should be canceled. Sorry.
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3 years
"I went to Human Resources." The whole world sighs audibly.
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3 years
Also, re last night’s TV coverage: when/if we get to move on, I’d like to see all that magic wall effort converted into daily coronavirus mapping: hotspots, infection rates, hospital totals, deaths. A national picture, with that same intensity.
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8 years
Bobby Moynihan, there's a red zipper sweater in your immediate future.
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5 years
Prepare to hurl flaming West Elm items from your Navy Yard condo balcony.
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3 years
We’re sitting here watching the #Woodstock99 doc and bf wonders aloud how many of the angry young dudes there were also at the Capitol on Jan. 6. 🤔
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3 years
Easily my favorite new thing at the office.
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5 years
Where do I get my KEEP CRYSTAL CITY WEIRD bumper sticker?
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5 years
I love getting notes from readers alerting me to typos (which I promptly fix) but what I will NOT accept are snide remarks about copy editors or the perceived lack thereof. They are here, saving our asses constantly, and faced with more copy than you can possibly imagine.
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4 years
My yacht policy is that if you’re bringing more than one vegan on board (but your party is not all vegans), then we’ll have to hire a 2nd chef. It’s not fair to expect top-notch cooking across those preferences. AND WHAT I SAY GOES. #BelowDeckMed
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4 years
A fly has landed on the Style section. Thank you.
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8 years
About 450 drama teachers right now emailing athletic directors inquiring about possibility of staging next show in the gym. #GreaseLive
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Hank Stuever
3 years
Incredibly excited to tell you the news, just announced to staff: @inkookang is The @WashingtonPost 's new TV critic.
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8 years
Unlike many authors whose novels become TV shows, Diana Gabaldon is very involved on #Outlander ; wrote a script for an ep in S2. #TCA16
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3 years
Congratulations, you have lived long enough to enjoy the first gay TV Christmas movie ( #theChristmasSetup ), and it is as tame and conventional as we always dreamed it would be. Merry Christmas, Justice Alito!
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Hank Stuever
4 years
When people tell you they aren't the sharpest tool in the shed, BELIEVE THEM.
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Thousands of bikers turned out to watch Smash Mouth play a concert in the middle of a pandemic:
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10 years
#DuckDynasty is not so much a free-speech issue. It's an employee discipline issue. Television is not a town square. It's a workplace.
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3 years
I was looking at Zillow when this #SNL Zillow ad came on. 😩👍🏻👄
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Hank Stuever
2 years
Another great thing about print: You get the headlines we like, not the one the algorithm prefers.
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3 years
The last day of Donald, as told by Style’s ⁦ @MrDanZak ⁩. Don’t miss the last line—wow.
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6 years
It writes itself, doesn’t it screenwriters? Two FBI agents (one male, one female), six days, “limited scope,” discouragement from superiors, surprising revelations, shifts in perspective. And, of course, 80s songs.
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7 years
REVIEW: At the Golden Globes, lots of ‘La La’-dee-da, but a wake-up call from Meryl Streep.
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Hank Stuever
4 years
WHO* can’t sing.
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Natalie Dunlap
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Journalism kids are theater kids that can’t sing
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Hank Stuever
3 years
This @mffisher obit of Rush Limbaugh is chock full of one galling detail after another, all the things one might have tried to forget, laid end to end, adding up to so much damage to our culture and politics, inflicted by one person.
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5 years
Gee, I wonder where we could possibly find lots and lots of honest, able-bodied people who would be willing to move to Maine, work, pay taxes, raise kids and be great citizens.
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3 years
The Return of Thoughtful Gestures
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Hank Stuever
7 years
Let's say they both win and start the healing.
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4 years
It may feel weirdly old-school, but Nana had the right idea, and millions are finding out: The networks' nightly news is a good way to manage your information intake. Like a Clorox wipe across the anxious mind.
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Hank Stuever
3 years
Life in my immediate Washington surroundings, with visual courtesy of @JDLand . Summary: Don't even think about it.
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4 years
The Newseum has closed, but you can still look at "Today's Front Pages" each day, online. I will miss walking past them on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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4 years
I just want to say that having the Stealth bomber, followed by three fighter jets, fly a few hundred feet above your house is not providing the happy, freedom-swelling effect it's meant to.
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3 years
Good night, he was 34, 35 here. Whatever happened to grownups, part 214.
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Hank Stuever
4 years
Ever worked at same place for 20 years? I have. Thank you ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩. #grateful
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Hank Stuever
8 years
If you're up, @kcrw playing a great #Bowie set right now. Sad.
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Hank Stuever
5 years
The Washington Post is adding all kinds of investigative reporting jobs: in Sports, in Europe, on climate, a newsroom FOIA director, researcher. Editors too. Details:
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Hank Stuever
9 years
Just saw the last 2 episodes of this season of #LookingHBO and they could not have been more perfect. I wish more people would watch it.
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Hank Stuever
5 years
The @washingtonpost Style section turns 50 on Sunday. Here are 9 stories from five decades -- not a greatest-hits album (which would be impossible to compile) but a good sampling of what we've done and still do.
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Hank Stuever
2 years
One year on the job — 300 or so Style sections headed for recycling. Keeping 63 really good ones for a while. The writing, the reporting, the ideas, the editing, the headlines, the photos, the art, the design. Hard work by all.
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3 years
Hooray, I've been chosen for PHASE ONE, returning to the newsroom next month. These are our outfits.
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9 years
Gross mismanagement of the Schulz estate. http://t.co/3EpGzz4dT9
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8 years
In other words, Trump admires Clinton's stamina.
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Hank Stuever
3 years
If you have friends who live in DC, don’t assume we’re all just peachy keen and loving the proximity to history. And if no one else has checked in on you, Washington, I will: Everything OK?
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3 years
So all this time we were having those dumb balls, we could have had 💥 fireworks???
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3 years
Change job titles all you want, Stuever, you’re still on for Oscar night. 😩
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3 years
@ElaheIzadi Personally prefer the Jesuit hits: One Bread One Body, Be Not Afraid, etc. But I was a 70s Catholic through and through.
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8 years
So sad. As if boys never wanted DREAM HAIR.
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6 years
#FX has ordered a limited series called #MrsAmerica , about the effort to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Cate Blanchett will play Phyllis Schlafly. Had to read the press release twice to be sure.
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6 years
Meant to say it this morning: We've officially lived through half of 2018. (Remember when we worried about making it all the way through 2017?)
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3 years
I’m sorry, but no. Inauguration needs to be small and virtual. The DNC was some of the most compelling TV this year. Inauguration should be the sequel. Save lives.
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Hank Stuever
2 years
35 years ago in the Style section: Madonna at RFK, reviewed by Richard Harrington. "With her nonstop dancing, costume changes, mini-dramas and dynamic pacing, it is sort of a 'Liza With an M.' It could just as well be called 'The Madonna Workout.'"
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8 years
I love #TheAffair but I so wish Whitney would sink right into the ocean, sink right into the ocean, sink right into the ocean.
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3 years
I still think of this as a contender for photo of the year. (Bob Daemmrich via Austin American- @Statesman .)
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Hank Stuever
3 years
If I seem a little enthusiastic about the work of my colleagues, sorry. I just came out of a cave where I was watching TV for 11 years and I am blinded, dazzled, by all the talent we have. That includes photo, designers, copy editors. Bear with me.
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7 years
With all that's going on, TV-addict-in-chief still tweeting this morning about "unwatchable" MSNBC and CNN, etc.
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1 year
This was shocking to me and a very big loss of a colleague I have long admired, who is an expert on grace because she possesses so much of it.
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3 years
Seven years later, I have made little to no progress in recognizing "over" as an acceptable substitute for "more than."
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5 years
Bravo and thank you to Doug Norwood for this A+ print edition headline on my #Outlander essay in this morning’s ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩. #newspaper
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6 years
I just watched the upcoming episode of @SHO_TheAffair and man, oh man -- it's an intense one. Great work from Joshua Jackson and Dominic West.
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Hank Stuever
3 years
CALLING DOLLY PARTON. CALLING DOLLY PARTON. Come get your state.
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Brett Kelman
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SCOOP: Tennessee Department of Health halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not just for COVID-19, but all diseases – amid pressure from GOP. Staff ordered to remove the agency logo from any documents providing vaccine info to the public, per internal dox.
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6 years
Hi England. This is how we church. Stop fidgeting.
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2 years
Congratulations to @LizSeymour , The Washington Post's new deputy managing editor for news operations. As executive features editor for the last 8 years, she worked miracles: brought us out of the doldrums, improved our work, hired the best and, most of all, cared deeply for us.
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4 years
Here’s a cleanse from that NYT story about rich people rediscovering their second homes. A ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩ story about how one woman spent every penny she had to buy a house in 1936 and changed the course of her family’s story.
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3 years
#NotreDame doing social distancing pretty much Sturgis-style
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Hank Stuever
6 years
It's a disaster without you.
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Thank you for all the kind tweets. Happy New Year! KG
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3 years
See? Isn’t it so much better to stay in on New Year’s Eve? We’ve all been trying to tell you.
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7 years
1999-2016 Person: where do you work? Me: Washington Post Person: Oh. 2017 Person: where do you work? Me: Washington Post Person: <orgasm>
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Hank Stuever
6 years
Just a reminder that one of the things about having Roseanne back is that you have Roseanne back.
@BuzzFeedEnt
BuzzFeed Arts & Entertainment
6 years
Roseanne Barr Deleted A Tweet Accusing A Parkland Survivor Of Giving A Nazi Salute
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3 years
Please everybody be a cat in tomorrow's meetings.
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Hank Stuever
7 years
There's one newspaper feature section left that will run a 6,000-word reported narrative on a Wednesday, and you're lookin' at it. #Style
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The Washington Post Style section relaunches with a new design, newsletter and social products to introduce highly visual, immersive formats
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4 years
Cleaning my @Swatch watches today. There’s a lot, I know. Don’t judge, I’m a white man in America in midlife. It could be a boat. It could be GUNS. Luckily it’s just watches.
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7 years
1. So what? 2. How many students in 1967 would've known silent directors of 1917? 3. Work backwards, TEACH: "Who here has seen 'Scream?'"
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My wife asked a class of 27 college students how many of them knew who Alfred Hitchcock was. Not a one. . .
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