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Art
Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
July 28, 2021Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
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Music
Music Review: New York Philharmonic, “Alan Gilbert Conducts Bach, Berg, and Brahms”
July 28, 2021Taking the second violin part, Gilbert, who has previously played in the Philharmonic’s chamber music concerts,...
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Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: The Runaway (Season 1, Episode 5)
July 27, 2021A recap/review of Terra Nova's fifth episode: The Runaway
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Movies & TV
The Walking Dead Season 2 Premiere: Suffer the Little Children
July 27, 2021Officers Friendly and Crazy to the rescue. (Photo credit: Gene Page/AMC) Despite the fact that AMC’s...
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Best Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Some Movies Are About Things
July 27, 2021At last, the long-rumored prequel/remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing infects theaters across the...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Thing
July 27, 2021Detractors of Rob Zombie’s Halloween know that the cardinal rule of a classic monster is this:...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Garden Party (Season 8, Episode 4)
July 27, 2021A recap/review of Garden Party, The Office's fourth episode of its eight season.
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Movies
Movie Review: The Big Year
July 26, 2021There are no surprises. The payoff of each plot arc is completely predictable. The fun of...
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Books
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
July 26, 2021In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
July 26, 2021Instead of jumping right into centipeding, Six spends the majority of the sequel allowing us to...
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Architecture
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
April 19, 2020But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...
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Gay and Lesbian
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
July 7, 2020The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘War’ (Season 2, Episode 16)
April 17, 2020Finally, Mike reveals that that he never went to Harvard. Rachel slaps him across the face,...
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Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
July 9, 2020Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 19, 2020But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Parents’ (Season 8, Episode 6)
November 15, 2011We open at a suburban birthday party, where a teenaged clown is failing to keep a...
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History
False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
December 31, 2019"The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘Normandy’ (Season 2, Episode 15)
April 17, 2020Harvey realizes that there is evidence that the company accused of discriminating against female employees promoted...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘He’s Back’ (Season 2, Episode 14)
April 17, 2020Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) was under professional and personal threat in Suits’ most recent episode, “He’s...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
April 16, 2020Meanwhile, every billion dollars spent on the supremely misguided attempt to revivify the nuclear industry is...
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