Hope he tipped 20 percent: Anthony Bourdain, host of the “Parts Unknown” food show on CNN, dined with President Barack Obama in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Monday — and then magnanimously picked up the $6 check.
Even one of the college kids who just sent Bernie Sanders their last 27 bucks probably could have covered that tab.
Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Winners will be named tonight on two of television’s most popular prime-time game shows.
We all know the drill. On “The Voice,” the judges will crown the season champ — who, if “Voice” tradition holds, will never be heard from again. Then on “Dancing With the Stars,” the winning hoofer will be presented with an ugly trophy that looks like a scale model of one of Donald Trump’s skyscrapers.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse opened America’s first telegraph line by transmitting “What hath God wrought.”
In response, God said, “What is that beeping noise?”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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