Tag: entertainment

Comedians Pat Dixon, Sean Donnelly & Angela Cobb

Recorded live in New York City the David Feldman Show is back in front of a live audience. Our special guests are Comic Sean Donnelly from Conan and Letterman, Comic Angela Cobb, and from the New York City Crime Report Pat Dixon. Special thanks to Christian, Kambri and Chris over at QED for making this amazing night possible. When you’re visiting New York make sure to check out QED in Astoria. For more information please go to www.QEDAstoria.com.

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5 Ways HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Is Just Like the Real Thing

 

For those in tech in the Bay Area, Silicon Valley doesn’t just hit home — it is home.

Season one is set to wrap up on May 25, and the similarities between Mike Judge’s version and the real thing are piling up. From the man behind satire like Idiocracy and Office SpaceSilicon Valley follows a group of young entrepreneurs trying to build the next big tech startup with a ridiculous name: Pied Piper. And it’s pretty spot on. Stanford grads galore, sky-high-paid Googlers (and Facebookers and Applers), and startups that come and go faster than your springtime allergies.

With one season (almost) in the books, and season two already on the docket, we took a look at the moments in Silicon Valley that we’ve actually experienced in Silicon Valley. They weren’t too difficult to find.

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The Ultimate Don Draper Pitch Is Don Draper: Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads | Underwire

Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of  Mad Men  through the lens of the latest media campaign of the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. A big shiny Clio Award to everyone out there who figured out what Don Draper was really trying to sell, and to whom he was really trying to sell it, before his long dark working-weekend of the soul came to an end. I didn’t. I’d taken […]

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