Politics
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Movie Review: Hanna
July 30, 2025Hanna is a force to be reckoned with, and she doesn’t really have an equal, even...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Killzone 3
July 30, 2025The other thing a war-porn game must deliver is a satisfying experience of fictional warfighting. Thankfully,...
Movies
An Interview with Michael Jai White
July 30, 2025Michael Jai White in a publicity still for Never Back Down 2 Michael Jai White has...
Movies
Movie Review: Insidious
July 30, 2025Remember how the first Saw was actually a creative, mind-bending scarefest? The series’ creators Leigh Whannell...
Movies & TV
A Report from the Red State Tour
July 29, 2025A simple, right to the point poster announces a stark change in material. Filmmaker Kevin Smith...
Theatre
Playwright in Profile: Susan Tenneriello
July 29, 2025Tenneriello's first encounter with theatrical experimentation came from her mother who used to perform impersonations after...
Movies
Movie Review: Hop
July 29, 2025Perhaps the best way to take Hop is as an illustration of why Easter movies never...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle – Evil Houses, Evil Locations…Simply Evil
July 29, 2025Welcome to another entry in the Fourth Wall Weekly Listicle, a weekly tour through the cinematic...
Art
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 28, 2025Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: In the Blink of an Eye by Michael Waltrip
July 28, 2025On the last lap, Earnhardt crashed, dying shortly thereafter. The race winner, Michael Waltrip, was celebrating...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Keeping It Simple With A ROBO-POCALYPSE!
July 28, 2025This week, the big opener of note is the outrageous fantasy action epic Sucker Punch, which...
Dance
Review: Mark Morris Dance Group
July 28, 2025In the last section of Mark Morris' Festival Dance, one dancer picks up his partner and...
Movies
Movie Review: Sucker Punch
July 27, 2025Sucker Punch strove to be what the trailers made it out to be: a comic-book-influenced tale...
Art
A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
July 27, 2025There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...
Art
The Denver Art Museum’s New Galleries of American Indian Art
July 27, 2025Navajo “eyedazzler” rugs of the nineteenth century, in which brilliantly colored wools form intricate diamonds, are...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Coppélia
July 27, 2025This production is, in a word — glorious! The lush backgrounds, from the opening wisteria-covered village...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dragon Age 2
July 26, 2025Do you like fantasy? As in the elves and dwarves and sword and sorcery ilk? No?...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lincoln Lawyer
July 26, 2025Michael Connelly is a very popular author, but it is easy to dismiss a film adapted...
Dance
Review: Buglisi Dance Theatre and Paul Taylor Dance Company
July 23, 2025The dancers of Buglisi Dance Theatre are perhaps the chief reason to see this company, which...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
July 23, 2025Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
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...
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?”...
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...
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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