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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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Review: Buglisi Dance Theatre and Paul Taylor Dance Company
November 15, 2026The dancers of Buglisi Dance Theatre are perhaps the chief reason to see this company, which...
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Movie Review: The Lincoln Lawyer
November 15, 2026Michael Connelly is a very popular author, but it is easy to dismiss a film adapted...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Luck o’ the Irish!
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
November 14, 2026Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
Art & Design
Art Review: Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image at the Denver Art Museum
November 14, 2026A work such as Nam June Paik’s Electronic Fish of 1986, constructed from a 1948 wooden...
Blog-Dance
5 Questions with San Francisco Ballet Dancer Nicole Ciapponi
November 14, 2026My favorite ballet to work this season (so far) was the William Forsythe The Vertiginous Thrill...
Dance
ROYAL DANISH BALLET: Video Chat with Nikolaj Hübbe and Live Stream Preview of 2011 U.S. Tour
November 14, 2026One of the most anticipated events of the late spring dance season is the return of...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: On Adapting The Classics
November 14, 2026With the arrival of Jane Eyre from Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, we see another standard...
Theatre
Theater Review: Rude Mechs Performs The Method Gun
November 13, 2026The play documents "the search" for Stella Burden, a mysterious acting teacher from the 70s, who...
Dance
5 Questions with Choreographer David Herrera
November 13, 2026I knew that for American Layercake it was imperative to find an assistant director who came...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Red Riding Hood
November 13, 2026Screenwriter David Johnson, whose one prior writing credit was the hilariously mind-boggling Orphan (2009), penned a...
Blog-Video Games
Fistful of Fillibuster: Director’s Chair Envy
November 13, 2026So then why is it that so often in games, the developers that make them decide...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
Movies
Movie Review: Rango
November 12, 2026Every scale on Rango’s chartreuse face, every strand of fur on the tiny desert pigs, each...
Theatre
Theater Review: Good People Starring Frances McDormand
November 12, 2026McDormand ‘s stellar performance captures the complexity of her character by combining swift comic timing with...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
Art
Art Review: Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
November 11, 2026“You know that I have Indian blood, Inca blood in me, and it’s reflected in everything...
Great Britain
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Offers Theme and Variations, Winter Dreams and TRIO
November 11, 2026Theme and Variations is a textbook ballet, showcasing the best of Balanchine’s Russian past while offering...
Movies
Oscars 2011: And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
November 11, 2026Ms. Kunis brought it–and we spent the whole night wondering if we’d see more of her...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Great Britain
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Performing Arts
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
Movies & TV
The Great Music Videos Valentine’s Edition: “Days Go By” by Dirty Vegas
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