Thanks again.

http://www.pbpulse.com/category/arts-and-culture/book-reviews-arts/

A lot of the regulars are gone, period – Gary Schwan has retired, along with Hap Erstein, although he is back as a freelancer for theater. Pulse already existed before those guys left in 2008, though.

People do get out to different events – I know that in my That Girl column, I don’t usually write about things that I am invited to (I like to just drop in, which is why I found things like the Southern Kitchen in Lake Park. I just stumbled on it).

We can’t cover everything, but we love suggestions!

Thanks for reading, again!

Can you please link me to the books section? I went to Accent, clicked on Scott Eyman, and the last story there was written in March 2009.

I clicked on the Books section above on that page, and got a hippie looking guy telling me the link was no longer valid, had been disconnected.

When you went to this new pulse format, all the solid regulars are gone, at least to us reading online. (Gary Schwan, the art critic — is he still with us?) Can you please put them on the pulse main page too, so if these categories are covered, they’re not hidden?

Thanks so much. I really enjoyed the books section, and think I’m too old for the club/tv/dating blogs and reviews. Thanks for whatever you can do on this. Maybe it’s more an online IT thing, but I’d be grateful if you could pass along the request. Thanks again.

Show us, don’t tell us. ;-)

Please do look into that changing bylines thing. When your work here is so personalized, it helps to know who’s writing, from the original read on.

How do you decide which tv shows are worthy of weekly review, and which aren’t? Does a journalist need special training to be a tv reviewer, and what is Kevin doing now? Also, why do you bury the non-tv and non-fluff stuff in Accent? Shouldn’t that go into Arts and Culture, which seems to be neglected ever since you went to the pulse format.

Is it working? Are your younger readers turning out for the tv and wine reviews, and staying to read the news? Somehow, I doubt that fluffy stuff works myself, there’s too many alternative tv-show review sites that the online person would also turn to, as well.

Do you ever get out much, past the club reviews and press release invites, to cover what regular people — families, transplants, singles, etc. — do in WPB for entertainment? Sometimes the comped shows y’all review really aren’t accessible to those not being comped, so I wonder if you’re reaching that working, everyday set of people — what they do for kicks independently on the weekends, evenings. Somehow, I don’t think the free wine review parties are on the radars of your younger readers, particularly those paying their own ways.

Thanks for reading my comment!

TV isn’t anyone’s beat. We don’t have a full-time TV critic anymore – the TV Talk blogging is something we do in addition to our beats. The TV shows, particularly, we picked ourselves. We write much more than what you see in this blog – I write about pop culture in print and online, which sometimes includes TV, and write several stories a week, including a column in Accent on Fridays and one in TGIF. Jon is a PBPulse editor, and a great writer.

And Scott is still writing about books – check out Sunday’s Accent section!

Thanks, Elise!

And this isn’t the first time I’ve noticed the bylines changing later.

You might want to double check with your IT dept. (You’re welcome that I’m reading … still don’t understand how they can pay so many of you to watch tv shows and report on them as your beats, but somebody somewhere must think this is a sustainable business model. I never click the online links though, so I’m not exactly sure how my reading your tv talks translates to anything substantial though… What is Keven covering now, if Jon is your go-to tv guy? And what the heck ever happened to Scott Eyman? Do you cover books anymore at the Post, or only tv celebrity books? Thanks for the info!)

Really — I didn’t see “by Leslie Gray Streeter” originally on this piece? Hmm….

Same criticism goes for Jon’s story then. How the heck can you say ” I think instead I’ll be positive about how another team just may have proven to be the toughest of all, given the challenges they had to face.” when everybody else finishing ahead of them faced the exact same challenges … except not miscounting, or misreading the clue.

Poor blonde folk just can’t seem to catch a break, no matter their performances.

And the fiancee will be fine. He just seems to like napping on the floor :)

And congrats on your engagement, get some furniture for that fiancee, poor child sleeping on the floor… ;-)

In short, that’s a great couple. And if they’re learning, and keep up the drive, they are definitely competitors. But let’s not forget the other teams, just because blonde/blue-eyed is supposed to be a free pass. They sure seem strong to me, and gutsy too. Holla.

Oh, and Phil? Don’t require it.