This American Life Updates

We Have A Winner!

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0600

A big thanks to the hundreds and hundreds of people who entered our recent T-Shirt design contest! We were incredibly impressed by the designs.

And the winner is...Brian Kaas of San Francisco, CA! His very elegant radio design [below] seemed perfect for the next TAL pledge drive thank-you gift.

We also really love Jon Shkiele's weightlifing snowman design (from Episode 323 ‘The Super’). We're planning to get those made too, to put in our online store. I mean, look at that tank top the snowman is wearing.

Click here to see more of our favorites.

We Have A Winner!

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0600

A big thanks to the hundreds and hundreds of people who entered our recent T-Shirt design contest! We were incredibly impressed by the designs.

And the winner is...Brian Kaas of San Francisco, CA! His very elegant radio design [below] seemed perfect for the next TAL pledge drive thank-you gift.

We also really love Jon Shkiele's weight-lifing snowman design (from Episode 323 ‘The Super’). We're planning to get those made too, to put in our online store. I mean, look at that tank top the snowman is wearing.

Click here to see more of our favorites.

This Week on the Radio: "Something for Nothing"

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Stories of people trying to get rich quick, or otherwise make something for nothing. As everyone knows, there's no such thing as something for nothing. You always pay a price. Broadcast August 29 - August 31.

TAL T-shirt Design Contest Closed!

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0600

Thanks to the many, many folks who entered our t-shirt design contest! The deadline has passed, and we're no longer accepting entries. Give us a few days to sort through the hundreds of designs you submitted, and we'll announce the winner soon.

Five Emmy Nominations For This American Life Television Show

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0600

We're very proud to announce that the second season of This American Life television has been nominated for five (5!) Emmy Awards, with special attention for the first episode, “Escape”:

Outstanding Nonfiction Series: The Producing Team, This American Life
Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming: Adam Beckman, Director of Photography, "Escape"
Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming: Chris Wilcha, Director and Adam Beckman, Director, "Escape"
Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming: Joe Beshenkovsky, Editor, "Escape"
Outstanding Writing For Nonfiction Programming: Ira Glass, "Escape"

Read more about Season Two here, and check out the complete list of 2008 Emmy nominations here.

TAL T-Shirt Design Contest Details!

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0600

So you’ve heard that we’re holding a contest to design a This American Life t-shirt. You’ve also heard that it will be our thank you gift for the next pledge drive, and that the winner will get $1000. And, well, you happen to be a pretty awesome graphic designer. In that case, all you need are the contest rules and submissions instructions. The deadline is soon: Monday July 28th. We’re excited to see your designs!

TAL T-shirt Design Contest

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:00:00 -0600

Every once in a while, listeners ask if we have a new This American Life t-shirt. And we tell them no. And then, well, maybe they feel sad. We assume it's just sad, and not something worse, like morose..or despondent. Truth is, it's been a while since we've had a shirt idea that we really like.

This is where you come in. That's right: we're holding a t-shirt design contest!

Create a This American Life t-shirt, and your art could end up on the backs (or fronts, depending on your design) of thousands of people. Because.... drum rolllll.... the shirt is going to be our thank-you gift during the next national pledge drive. Then later, after the drive, we'll make it available in our webstore.

Oh, and the winner will also get a cash prize of $1000. Okay, it won't be cash. It'll be a check.

The deadline will be in late July, and we'll post complete contest rules and submission instructions soon. In the meantime, start working up your design. We're excited to see what you come up with!

Help Keep Our Podcast and Streaming Free

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0600

Hello, listeners.

It's been a year-and-a-half since we decided to offer our show as a free, weekly podcast, and that's been a crazy, whopping success. But because so many people—sometimes more than half a million—are downloading and streaming our show each week, the Internet bandwidth to distribute the program this way costs $152,000 per year. We want to keep offering This American Life for free. You want us to keep offering the show for free. Our home station, Chicago Public Radio, doesn't need to make money on our podcast, but they can't lose $152,000 a year on it, either.

We think we can cover the whole cost by coming to you, hopefully just twice a year, virtual hat in hand. If you listen regularly over the Internet, please pitch in a little cash. To all the people who gave six months ago, a sincere thank you, and please consider giving a small amount again. A dollar from every Internet listener would more than pay for everything, but of course not everyone's going to give, so consider a $5 donation. It'll cover you and a few other people for a year of listening. If you donate more than a few bucks, you can choose thank-you gifts—including some stuff you can't get anywhere else. One of the items is a CD of "The Giant Pool of Money," our incredibly popular, recent episode about the mortgage crisis, which many listeners wanted to purchase as a gift.

Our dream is that we'll get you and most of our Internet listeners to chip in at the $1 or $5 level, and that'll cover everything. We'd love to take care of this expense with a flood of little donations from the people who actually listen to our show this way. And of course, if you feel that getting an hour of our show every week is worth more to you than a dollar a year, we'd be grateful for anything else you'd care to contribute. We really want to keep the podcast free.

Thanks so much,
Ira Glass

Ira on Conan!

Wed, 28 May 2008 13:00:00 -0600

If you are

A) Super-cool and stay out really late
B) A big nerd and go to bed early

that means you missed Ira Glass's appearance last Friday on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. But the good news is, you can stream it online!

Ira shows us the freakish advertisement he recently saw in Canada, breaks the news to movie theater owners about a scary new technology called "television," and talks about the very ambitious season finale of our TV show:

Let Us Know What You Thought of Our Cinema Event

Mon, 05 May 2008 12:00:00 -0600

A big thanks to the more than 20,000 of you who turned out to your local movie theaters last Thursday night for This American Life - Live! No other radio show had ever tried a nationwide cinema simulcast, and we didn't really know what to expect. So we were thrilled that so many people came out, and even more thrilled to read the positive feedback on your blogs (thanks, Google Alerts!).

It was more technologically complex than anything we'd ever attempted—with shots from five HD cameras intercut live, video playback, Ira synching audio to visuals, and everything beamed onto 330 screens across the country. We're amazed that nothing exploded.

Oh, and remember when Ira read the wedding proposal from the guy in a theater in Peoria? She said yes.

We weren't able to send spies to every theater, so tell us what you thought of the show! Leave us comments on MySpace and Facebook, and add your photos to our Flickr pool (Tag 'em tal-live, and give us some details in the description, willya?)!

Thanks, again, to everyone who joined us on Thursday. You're awesome!

Pictured: The satellite truck that made the whole shebang possible. Photo by Seth Lind.

New Chris Ware Animation for TAL TV

Fri, 02 May 2008 16:00:00 -0600

For the second season of our television show, cartoonist Chris Ware once again teamed up with animator John Kuramoto. You may recognize the story, told by public radio veteran Robert Krulwich, from our radio show. Here's Chris and John's complete segment from our television episode "Every Marriage Is a Courtroom":

Season Two debuts this Sunday, May 4, at 10 pm ET/PT on Showtime. See more clips on our Showtime site!

Ira on Letterman Tonight!

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0600

Ahead of next Thursday's special event on the big screen, Ira will appear on the small screen tonight. He'll be on the Late Show with David Letterman alongside Craig Ferguson and The Black Crowes. Items on the agenda: doggie anti-depressants, testosterone, and our upcoming cinema simulcast.

So tune in tonight—11:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

Pictured: TAL producer Jane Feltes (left) and intern Emily Youssef on the set of the Late Show.

TAL on Television: Season Two Debuts May 4 on Showtime

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:00:00 -0600

We've been bursting at the seams to share this with you, so without further ado, here's a preview of season two of our television show:

The stories are funnier and more confident this time around, and we're really excited for you to see them. Our six-episode run debuts Sunday, May 4 at 10 pm ET/PT on Showtime.

This American Life - Live! Tickets on Sale Now

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:00:00 -0600

If you haven't seen it, here's the event trailer that's currently playing in movie theatres across the country:

If you have a question for Ira, email ask@thisamericanlife.org by Friday, April 18—and be creative!

Again, this event is one night only: Thursday, May 1 at 8 pm EDT/7 pm CDT/6 pm MDT and tape-delayed at 8 pm PDT (we wanted it all to be live, but figured a 5 pm start would be pushing it for lots of you West Coasters). Search for theatres near you, and buy tickets here!

Important Note: We're screening this event everywhere we can. Please understand that we're at the mercy of theatres' capability to show a live, digital satellite feed, and the equipment for that takes significant time and money to set up. So unfortunately, we can't accommodate requests to screen the show in additional venues. Thanks.

TV Season One on DVD

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:00:00 -0600

Chances are, if you're a fan of our radio show, you may not have actually seen our television show. DVDs of our first season come out on January 29, and they'll be available exclusively at Borders:

Watch another promo.

TAL Wins DuPont Journalism Award

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:00:00 -0600

We're proud to share that This American Life contributor Alix Spiegel has won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for her story "Which One of These is Not Like The Others?" Alix's story is Act One in episode #322: Shouting Across the Divide.

Ira and the "New Kings" Live Onstage: New in Our Store

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:00:00 -0600

In this live recording, Ira is joined onstage at Town Hall in New York by three amazing writers: Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Orlean, and Chuck Klosterman. All three appear in Ira's anthology The New Kings of Nonfiction.

In a very funny conversation, each writer chooses a passage of the others' work to read and comment on. Malcolm, Chuck and Ira are all shocked when they hear how much time Susan spends with her interviewees. Malcolm talks about a story he was sure was going to be his magnum opus, except for the unfortunate fact that no one else saw it that way. Chuck explains how he's able to write so much. Each writer describes how he or she would go about writing a magazine profile of one of the others. And for one surprising moment that catches everyone off guard, there's a side by side comparison of Chuck Klosterman and Dante.

If you or a loved one are among the 303,576,253 Americans who somehow missed this extremely popular event, don't miss your second chance!

Break-Up Song Contest Winners

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:00:00 -0600

A few months back, we held a contest for listeners to remix, re-perform, or reimagine Starlee Kine's break-up song from episode 339. Well, polls have closed, votes are in, ballots are counted...and we've posted the winners for your heartbreak listening pleasure.

Ira on The Sound of Young America

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:00:00 -0600

Ira writes:

Recently I was interviewed for one of my favorite podcasts, The Sound of Young America. If you haven't heard the show, some episodes I'd recommend: Chuck Klosterman/Dave Foley (which contains absolutely perfect interviews with both men), any of the John Hodgman appearances, and—though I normally find him a bore—the Henry Rollins interview. My wife pointed out that host Jesse Thorn gets the most amazing quote out of Henry Rollins, by coaxing him to talk about all the comedy albums he loved as a kid. Revealing and fascinating.

Every comedian you've ever heard of has been on the show, as well as many This American Life regulars, like Jonathan Goldstein, Dan Savage, David Rakoff—even our senior producer Julie Snyder.

I'm also a fan of Jordan, Jesse GO!, which Jesse Thorn co-hosts with his friend Jordan Morris. The first one I heard was "Ep. 27: Sadcast," and it was good enough to get me hooked. After discussing Tofutti Cuties, laundry, DVD extras, and other subjects, Jesse talks about his dying dog Woofie.

TAL TV Wins International Documentary Association Award

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:00:00 -0600

We're proud to share that our television show has been honored with the 2007 IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award for "Continuing Series!"

Ira's Book, The New Kings of Nonfiction, Available in Our Store

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:00:00 -0600

About a year ago I got talked into editing a book—a collection of reporting I've been a fan of over the years—to raise money for the writing center 826 Chicago. Seemed like a good cause.

Most of the stories in this book come from a stack of favorite writing that I’ve kept behind my desk. It started as a place to toss articles I simply didn't want to throw away, and it's a mess. Old photocopies of photocopies. Pages I've torn from magazines and stapled together. Random issues of a Canadian magazine a friend edited for a while. Now and then, in working on a radio story with someone, I'll want to explain a certain kind of move they could try, or someone just needs inspiration. They need to see just how insanely good a piece of writing can be, and shoot for that. That's when I go to the stack.

The contributors are some of the best nonfiction authors alive: Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote The Tipping Point; Susan Orlean, who wrote The Orchid Thief; New York Times Magazine writer Jack Hitt (a contributing editor of our show), and more. David Foster Wallace does the best piece of reporting I've ever read on right-wing talk radio. Mark Bowden explains what Saddam Hussein—the man—was really like. Dan Savage recounts how he decided that the best way to change the Republican Party would be to sign up (he ends up as a delegate to their Washington State convention; havoc ensues). Jim McManus tells the story of how he went to cover the World Series of Poker for Harper's Magazine and ended up at the final table, carrying home a quarter million dollars—the poker equivalent of showing up at the Olympics after having run some track in high school and bringing home the bronze.

The book is now available. Check it out in our store.

-Ira Glass

Read Ira's full introduction to the book.

Maps That Are More Like Novels

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:00:00 -0600

Check out some of the maps cartographer Denis Wood describes in last week's episode, "Mapping."

Break-Up Song Contest

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:00:00 -0600

Listen to the song featured on This American Life! Then make your own version!

"The Three of Us"—written during Act One of this week's episode, "Break-Up"—changed dramatically depending on how it was mixed. Witness: the slower, sparer version we played in the show vs. a happier, poppier version. Julia Greenberg's vocals are the same in both versions; Joe McGinty's arrangement changed. (If you want more than streaming audio, you can purchase mp3s at Joe's MySpace page.)

If you'd like to take a crack at mixing your own version, we've posted all of the tracks they used (53 MB): guitar, vocals, keyboard, back-up vocals, etc.—25 in all. Details are in the complete track listing, and the tempo of the song is 100 bpm. If you're a musician and want to take a crack at performing it yourself, we've also made the sheet music available. Plus, check out Joe's photos of some of the instruments!

Update: Thanks to everyone who entered our contest! The deadline was September 30, and you sent us 127 mixes—wow. We're working to post them all online, and we also have some special judges selecting their favorites. The tracks and sheet music are still available, so if you haven't had a chance yet, mix away!

See Ira Glass Live and David Sedaris on Tour

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0600

Host Ira Glass will be coming to a city near you this fall! Cities include Los Angeles; South Bend, Indiana; Chicago; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Salt Lake City. See his complete list of appearances.

Plus, TAL contributor David Sedaris is going on a 32-city tour in October. Get city and show info for David's marathon.

TAL TV Receives Three Emmy Nominations!

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:00:00 -0600

We're proud to announce that the first season of our television show has been nominated for three Emmy Awards! Chris Wilcha was nominated for Outstanding Directing, Adam Beckman was nominated for Outstanding Cinematography, and producer Nancy Updike was nominated for Outstanding Writing--all for Episode Three: "God's Close-Up".

We really didn't know what to expect when we ventured into TV, so we're thrilled about these kudos. Winners will be announced on September 8. And remember: the entire season is available in iTunes!

Some Special Notes about "Who Can You Save?"

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:00:00 -0600

This episode features a story from what is arguably the most groundbreaking new show in public radio: Radio Lab, from New York Public Radio. If you haven't heard it, everything they've done is available as free downloads from their website.

Also, in Act Two, Ira interviews a retired diplomat, Kiki Munshi, about testimony she gave to Congress about Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq. You can read her testimony, and The Atlantic ran a story that goes into more detail about Kiki's experience heading up a PRT.

And Brady Udall, who tells the story in Act Three, also wrote one of the most popular pieces of fiction we've ever run: "Otis Is Resurrected," from our episode In Dog We Trust.

Our TV Show: Now Available for Download in iTunes!

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:00:00 -0600

Hi everyone. Ira Glass here. For months now, I and everyone who works on This American Life have been approached by a steady stream of public radio listeners who don't get Showtime, but who want to see our TV show. "When are the DVDs coming out?" they ask. "When's it going to be on iTunes?" Well, the DVDs are still in the works, but I'm excited to tell you the whole series is now up in iTunes. And it's cheap!

My personal favorites, of the six episodes: Nancy Updike's story in Episode Three about nonbelievers and believers colliding in Utah, the fourteen-year-old who decided he doesn't believe in love in Episode Two, and Chris Ware's cartoon and GJ Echternkamp's home movie in Episode Four. If you download all six shows, you'll see us try all sorts of ways to film a story for TV and you'll probably notice us loosen up as we figure out what we're doing in this new medium. It's been exciting trying to make a television program that would feel just like our radio show and I hope you take a look.

Bonus Audio: "The Center for Lessons Learned"

Thu, 31 May 2007 17:00:00 -0600

Host Ira Glass writes: Hi everyone. We found ourselves in the strange situation with last week's show, "The Center for Lessons Learned," that we had a great story that was simply hard to hear over the radio. It's a phone call with a 20-year-old medical student in Baghdad, and the audio quality is a little too sketchy for radio, but not too terrible to hear sitting at a computer or—even better—on iPod headphones. She says some amazing things, including a story about a U.S. soldier who was stationed in Iraq who she got to know over the Internet. He wanted to meet her in person, so he set up a fake roadblock and checkpoint on the route between her house and her school. We pinned this interview onto the end of the podcast of this episode, and we've also posted it as a separate, downloadable mp3. It's 10 minutes, and you can listen here.

Bonus Audio: "The Ten Commandments"

Tue, 08 May 2007 15:00:00 -0600

We weren't able to squeeze this excellent interview into last week's episode, "The Ten Commandments": Marine chaplain Eli Takesian—like Lyn Brown, the chaplain interviewed in Commandment Six. You Shall Not Murder.—was attached to a unit that saw the brutality of combat up-close, but in a different war. He served two tours as a chaplain during Vietnam. Takesian talked with TAL producer Alex Blumberg. The bonus clip is eight minutes, and you can listen here.

Showtime Picks Up TAL for Second Season

Tue, 08 May 2007 10:00:00 -0600

The debut season of our television show has come to a close. Now, on to Season Two! We'll go into production at the end of this summer, and Season Two will hit the air, er, cable, a year later—probably in late 2008. For Showtime subscribers, Season One is still available on-demand. Also, Season One should be available in the iTunes Store or as a DVD box set at some point in the not-too-distant future. We'll let you know the minute we find out ourselves!

Ira Appears on Acceptable.TV

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Host Ira Glass writes: "I was invited to play a prison gang member in a cartoon. Oh, sure, I winced at the typecasting, but it seemed like it'd be fun, so I did it. I like Acceptable.TV, though it seems to be the worst-publicized show in the history of television. I have yet to meet anyone who's ever seen it or even heard of it. The surprisingly enjoyable premise of the show is that each week, they present five 'TV pilots,' and we in the audience vote for which ones we want to see again. Then the next week, two winners return with new episodes.

"If you want to witness them at their full genius, go to their site and watch 'Homeless James Bond' or 'FBAbdullah.' And is it okay to say on a public radio website that I loved a TV pilot they did called 'Who Farted?' (If you watch that one, note the incredible and perfect music they created for it.)

"The people who make the show seem to love everything about the conventions of television and to see through those conventions with piercing, critical, x-ray eyes—all at once. One of their go-to moves that I especially love is that many of the sketches end on these fake-sincere moments where the characters have tender, TV-sized heartstrings moments. The one in 'FBAbdullah' is sort of a classic, but in the very same episode there's also one in 'Gayliens' and another in 'Operation Kitten Calendar.' I don't think I've seen other sketch comedies do this as well (or certainly as often). It gives the sketches (excuse me, the 'pilots') satisfying endings, which apparently is a tricky thing to do in sketch comedy. The cartoon I'm in is the fifth episode with Mr. Sprinkles. He's a Cat in the Hat figure who enters kids' homes when it rains, inevitably terrifying the kids. They always call the cops, which is how he ended up in prison."

"Growth Spurt" Soundtrack Posted

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0600

In which producer and TV music supervisor Jane Feltes admits two bad habits. And Bedroom Walls prove that you can never have too much of a good thing.

"The Cameraman" Soundtrack Posted

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:00:00 -0600

We have a guest this week on our TV music blog: associate producer Mary Ann Casavant. Read her entry about dealing with the big music issue in Episode Four, "The Cameraman."

Join Our Conversation at Vox.com

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:00:00 -0600

We've started a group blog/TAL community at Vox.com, where we're asking you to submit your own stories as well as responses to ours. Vox's Anil Dash wrote a blog post that captures the essence of this experiment in a very lovely way. And joining Vox is easy: just sign up here, and you'll automatically be added to our group. Plus, your Vox page will be gussied up with our logo, which will make it, us, and you all feel very special!

TAL on MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:00:00 -0600

We've finally entered the first half of the decade. Find us...friend us:

• MySpace
• Facebook
• YouTube

"God's Close-Up" Soundtrack Posted

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:00:00 -0600

"I messed up, kinda big time, with this week's episode. And I kinda did it twice." Read the third installment of producer Jane Feltes's TV music blog!

Watch Ira on Charlie Rose!

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:00:00 -0600

Thanks to the kind folks at The Charlie Rose Show, you can now watch TAL host Ira Glass on the program:

Ira appeared this past Wednesday, April 4.

"Habeas Schmabeas" Wins Peabody!

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:00:00 -0600

We're proud to share that our radio episode "Habeas Schmabeas" has won a Peabody Award! It's a show about Guantanamo Bay and what it meant for prisoners there to be denied the right of habeas corpus. We also tried to explain in a way that wasn't crushingly boring what habeas corpus actually means, why it's so fundamental in American law, and how dangerous it is for everyone when it begins to erode. For a limited time, you can download an mp3 of this episode for free. It's a special, uncut version that contains several minutes of additional material. Also, you can download a transcript.

Limited-Edition "What I Learned from Television" Poster

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:00:00 -0600

They were the hit of the merch tables, and now they're in our store: full-color, 19" x 39" posters designed by Lilli Carré for our 2007 live tour—"What I Learned from TV." And for an even more limited edition, you can buy one signed by host Ira Glass and other tour performers!

"My Way" Soundtrack Posted

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:00:00 -0600

In the second installment of her TV music blog, producer Jane Feltes wraps up last week's cliffhanger...and leaves you with another!

TV Bonus Clip: Ira Duels Chris!

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:00:00 -0600

In this silent outtake from Episode Two, "My Way," host Ira Glass and director Chris Wilcha take time to duel, using the swords and maces of the high school kids they just interviewed.

FAQ: Will the TV show be available on DVD? Via iTunes?

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0600

We hope that both of these things will happen, but don't have the final word about either just yet. Showtime's contracts with cable companies prevent them from offering entire series on DVD or via iTunes until a few months after first broadcast. We'll update here as soon as we have news on this front.

The New Republic's TAL Contest

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:00:00 -0600

We are following with interest a contest at The New Republic called "Can You Out 'Ira Glass' Me?" It was created by Sacha Zimmerman, who challenged people to send in "childhood memories, profound moments, or fleeting epiphanies and turn them into This American Life masterpieces." Here are the finalists, and the winner is being announced today. Sacha also reviewed our TV show.

Update: The winner is Emigdio!

"This American Soundtrack"

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:00:00 -0600

Check out our new TV music blog! For our TV show, producer Jane Feltes also served as music supervisor, the person charged with finding the perfect songs and getting them cleared for broadcast. Read her blog each week for true stories of soundtrack madness, track listings, and more.

Watch Chris Ware's TAL TV Segment

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Acclaimed comic artist (and good friend of TAL) Chris Ware and John Kuramoto animated a story for the fourth episode of our new TV show, and Slate.com has posted the whole, beautiful thing. Go, enjoy.

Read All About Us

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0600

We've been getting a bit of press lately, which we're delighted about. Here's an article from the NY Times, one from the LA Times, and one from The Oregonian. And some articles go behind the scenes: Popgurls has an interview with the director of our new TV show, Chris Wilcha; and Billboard talked to TAL producer and TV music supervisor Jane Feltes.

Feeds: The Final Frontier

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0600

We've infiltrated your radio, iPod, neighborhood cable television network, and now: your RSS reader. Subscribe to our updates feed to stay on top of all things TAL: promos, announcements, press, site updates and fixes, and more.