Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 7
October 27, 2024A high-speed mincing Malcolm and a Malcolm collapsing back onto the cushions of a taxi marked...
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Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: Soul Train and Sex and Drugs (Episode 5 and 6)
October 27, 2024A recap/review of Revolution: "Soul Train" and "Sex and Drugs," Episode 5 and 6
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Movies
Halloween Home Video #10: Nicholas McCarthy’s The Pact
October 27, 2024For the grand finale of Halloween Home Video 2012, have a look at Nicholas McCarthy's dread-heavy...
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Art
Manet: Portraying Life — An Interview with Curator Lawrence W. Nichols
October 27, 2024As I pursued my research into Manet, I discovered that MaryAnne Stevens of the Royal Academy...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘Solid Citizens’ (Season 1, Episode 5)
October 26, 2024So, I suspect the question “What happened in the fifth episode of Vegas?” is not uppermost...
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Dance
Russell Maliphant’s Afterlight Folds Time Into Space at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
October 26, 2024After a piano intro, a spot opens up a space on the dark stage and in...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Man with the Iron Fists
October 26, 2024The Man with the Iron Fists is nothing if not enthusiastic, its narrative fits and starts...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: High Sierra, #52
October 26, 2024Before High Sierra, Hollywood’s gangsters were not just black-and-white on celluloid; they were equally definitive in...
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Movies
Movie Review: Maniac
October 26, 2024Satire, serious, or schlock? That was the question playing through my mind during Maniac, director Franck...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
October 26, 2024A mile wide and an inch deep? Not Christine Schutt’s Prosperous Friends. Quite the opposite. It’s...
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Movies & TV
The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Legacy’ (Season 1, Episode 5)
October 25, 2024And The Mob Doctor’s back! For now, at least. Judging by the previews, next week’s episode...
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Dance
Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet’s Constellation: Ballet in Bright Lights
October 25, 2024Strings of LED lights take the form of square panels, and dancers wear or carry them...
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Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: The Children’s Crusade (Season 1, Episode 7)
October 25, 2024A recap/review of Revolution: The Children's Crusade (Season 1, Episode 7)
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: The Boat (Season 9, Episode 6)
October 25, 2024A review/recap of The Office: The Boat (Season 9, Episode 6)
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Movies
Early Review: John Dies At The End Starring Paul Giamatti
October 25, 2024The lead two actors have good chemistry, Clancy Brown is always a welcome sight, and the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — #51
October 24, 2024Jacques Mesrine was one of the most notorious criminals in France during the 1960s and 1970s....
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Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
October 24, 2024As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
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Movies
Movie Review: Skyfall
October 24, 2024Our latter-day Bond, played to perfection by Daniel Craig, has re-energized the character created by novelist...
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Movies & TV
Game of the Week: LSU vs. Mississippi State — The View from England
October 24, 2024After last week’s loss to the Crimson Tide, LSU’s Tigers might have felt they had something...
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Books
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
October 23, 2024Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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Art
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
November 27, 2024But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Lady of the Lake’ (Season 2, Episode 9)
December 11, 2024That which will be given to Freya must be stolen from Arthur, and so Merlin goes...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Gliding Over All’ (Season 5, Episode 8)
November 18, 2024Two montages in one episode, guys! This one is set, adorably, to “Crystal Blue Persuasion” by...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Last Dragonlord’ (Season 2, Episode 13)
December 4, 2024The longer this series goes on, the more likely it seems that someone might raise a...
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Phobias
True Blood Recap: Season 5 Raises The Stakes
November 19, 2024True Blood has tightened up considerably since the meandering adventures of Season 4, despite the fact...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Sweet Dreams’ (Season 2, Episode 10)
December 8, 2024The rulers in question are converging on Camelot for a peace conference of the kind I...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Atlantic City, #68
December 8, 2024Lou was one tough Atlantic City gangster in his time. Says he knew Al Capone, Lucky...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Sins of the Father’ (Season 2, Episode 8)
December 11, 2024Though as the mysterious knight’s identity is revealed, it turns out that the gracious Sir is...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Layer Cake, #62
November 21, 2024The movie’s title refers to the various strata of the chaotically violent, multibillion dollar world of...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
November 20, 2024As befits a former poet, Hughes’s writing is economical yet stylish, atmospheric without being fussy. And...
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