February 15, 2006

NY Times food, stage critics start blogs, podcasts

The New York Times is expanding its free podcasting and blogging offerings, including restaurant coverage from Frank Bruni and daily theater coverage from a number of the paper's critics.

Bruni, the paper's senior restaurant critic, is podcasting five days a week and plans to blog at least several times a week. Today's podcast offers a quick glimpse at Morimoto, which he blogs about as well, while yesterday's episode was a short version of his in-the-paper review of Italian restaurant Table XII.

The blog, called the Diner's Journal is "an attempt to capture and share more of my notes from the field. To provide, in something closer to real time, a sense of what’s being served in the city’s newest, oldest, most delightful and most frustrating restaurants and of how those restaurants are serving it. To flag trends and, less often and more selectively, flog underachievers. To report moments of real significance and incidents that just happened to be interesting," Bruni writes.

The theater podcasts promise a daily update from one of the paper's critics. Today's podcast carries Charles Isherwood reading a short version of his "Red Light Winter" review, which appeared in the February 10 paper.

Yesterday's episode featured Lawrence Van Gelder a bit awkwardly rattling off the details of a two upcoming plays: "The Busy World is Hushed" and "Festen." Theater critic Ben Brantley is also podcasting.

February 15, 2006 01:56 PM in Broadway, Foodology, Techology

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