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The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: NBC
August 10, 2025The weakest of the major networks, NBC is the first of the four to release their...
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The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: ABC
August 9, 2025It occurred to me while writing this that the only show I watched last season on...
Art & Design
Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum
August 9, 2025The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and...
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Insecurity Deposits: Catching Up With Hammer’s The Resident
August 9, 2025The Resident is nicely paced, moodily presented, eerily scored and based upon a very creepy idea....
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee
August 9, 2025The title refers to the new female embodiment aspired to by the main character Anjali Bose...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Everything Must Go
August 7, 2025This is an interesting movie to come out at the tail end of Will Ferrell's spin...
Movies
Movie Review: Bridesmaids
August 7, 2025The rivalry between Annie and Helen escalates into several delightfully over the top disasters, including a...
Art
Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
August 7, 2025While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...
Movies
Lies, LIES! Never Trust Nothing, Especially A “Last” Sequel
August 7, 2025After going to the trouble of naming the fourth installment of the series THE Final Destination,...
After Image
Badlands Revisited
August 7, 2025Badlands was filmed on location in southern Colorado, and recently I finally made it to Pueblo,...
Music
Welcome to When You See Sparks, CLR’s New Music Blog
August 7, 2025We are pleased to announce the start of CLR’s new music blog. Ben Caro, a Los...
Music
The Emotional Significance of Modulation in The Secret Garden
August 7, 2025aka What Happens When You Give a Theatre Kid a B.A. in Music One day I...
After Image
Denver’s Camera Obscura Gallery Closes
August 6, 2025In dramatic contrast to the wide-open, sleekly minimalist aesthetic of most modern art galleries, Camera Obscura’s...
Movies
Movie Review: Thor
August 6, 2025Once upon a time in the New Mexico desert, there lived a brilliant young astrophysicist with...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Its Spring Season
August 6, 2025As anyone who has seen the New York City Ballet can attest, George Balanchine hardly stuck...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: The Little Mermaid
August 6, 2025Although described as being more closely aligned with the Andersen tale, this is an exposition more...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Portal 2
August 5, 2025Yes, Portal 2 is great, there are no two bones about it. If all you want...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle – Car (and Chase) Movies That Don’t Run On Diesel
August 5, 2025This week Fast Five - which, as its title rather subtly implies, is the fifth film...
Dance
Review: Boston Ballet’s Bella Figura
August 4, 2025When the curtain rises on The Second Detail, the stage looks leeched of color: the leotards...
Video Games
Sex, Choice and Video Games . . . on a Quantum level.
August 4, 2025I, along with most of the free world, have been playing Portal 2. Perhaps thinking 5th...
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...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
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...
Classics
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...
Art & Design
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...
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 & TV
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’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...
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...
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