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The Great Music Videos Valentine’s Edition: “Days Go By” by Dirty Vegas
July 16, 2025Happy arbitrary and consumerist holiday from CLR and The Fourth Wall! Richard Phillips’s album artwork is...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: Giselle Redux
July 16, 2025Many dance companies would kill for the depth of talent present at San Francisco Ballet. Take,...
Movies
Movie Review: Gnomeo and Juliet
July 16, 2025Gnomeo and Juliet seems like a terrible idea. Due to smart writing and great character actors,...
Video Games
“I’ll Buy That For A Dollar!” – A Public Service
July 15, 2025Anyway, here at the Metro City Reform Committee, we're familiar with hard times, we know that...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: No, We CAN’T Feel The Love Tonight!
July 15, 2025This week, Julia Rhodes and I (Dan Fields) recall a bygone era, when entertainment for kids...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet
July 15, 2025I never tire of seeing After the Rain, however, and doubt that I will. This ballet,...
Video Games
The Metro City Reform Committee: Monday Nights at the Giant Ape Fights!
July 15, 2025But something seems wrong in gamingdom. The boss battle and especially the LAST boss battle to...
Dance
Review: Parsons Dance at the Joyce
July 13, 2025Name a piece "Bachiana" and you invite comparison to two twentieth-century greats: Fokine's Chopiniana, with its...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
July 13, 2025This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
Performing Arts
San Francisco Ballet: RAkU, Symphonic Variations and Symphony in C
July 13, 2025A new Possokhov ballet is something SFB audiences have come to relish, and RAkU did not...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Bionic Commando Rearmed 2
July 13, 2025Bit of a disclaimer: the original Bionic Commando on the NES was the favorite game of...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Giselle
July 13, 2025The cast for the opening night (Saturday, January 29) featured the deservedly popular Yuan Yuan Tan...
Television
The Weekly Listicle is Seeing Double!
July 13, 2025The Roommate‘s Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester. Fiction is perpetually preoccupied with doppelgangers–doubles or evil twins....
Dance
Dance Review: NYCB Offers Polyphonia, For the Love of Duke, and Concerto DSCH
July 13, 2025Yet while these dancers retain their individuality, Ratmansky manages to make their movements seem of a...
Dance
A Gala Celebration with San Francisco Ballet
July 13, 2025As usual for these events, Wednesday night’s audience came in their finest duds — men in...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
July 12, 2025The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...
Movies
Movie Review: The Rite
July 12, 2025The Rite is remarkably dull where its most obvious predecessor, The Exorcist, was sharp as a...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dead Space 2
July 12, 2025For many years, Electronic Arts was seen by most as the “evil empire” of the video...
Blog-Dance
And There’s Prize Money!
July 12, 2025News flash — Dance makers need money! Oh, the big companies are on all the corporate...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Mechanic
July 11, 2025Jason Statham, the icy British actor famous for jacked-up action romps including The Transporter and Crank,...
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
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
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...
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...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
After Image
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
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...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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