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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Metroid: Other M
February 29, 2024No matter how much you might want to love the game out of nostalgia or give...
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Movies
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, the Horror and Beauty of Ballet
February 28, 2024Portman has never looked quite so spooky: the Black Swan poster. Once upon a time, I...
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Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
February 28, 2024A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
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Movies
Hammer to Fall? Not This Year, Horror Show Fans!
February 28, 2024After years of silence, Hammer Film is returning to active production in a big way this...
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Movies
Movie Review: Machete
February 28, 2024Not that Machete ever feels like an Oliver Stone film, but it’s a pleasant surprise to...
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The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Unleashed!!!
February 28, 2024Well, here we are… 3/4’s of the way through the year and the Academy Award nominees...
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Movies
Movie Review: Going the Distance
February 27, 2024After that, things take a turn for the much worse when Erin and Garrett continue their...
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Games
Video Game Review: Mafia II
February 27, 2024The story is secondhand Scorsese, hitting all the familiar tropes even the most casual audience member...
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Thrillers
The Weekly Listicle: What… The Devil?
February 27, 2024A fascination with the supernatural, and particularly its dark side, dates back to the earliest days...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Music Instinct by Philip Ball
February 27, 2024The amount of factual detail and insights that Ball brings to the themes under discussion is...
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Games
Video Game Review: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
February 27, 2024Former criminal compatriots Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus and James Seth Lynch are brought together again after spending...
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Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Man vs. Nature–Deathmatch!
February 26, 2024This week marks the release of what’s sure to be the masterpiece of 2010 (aside from...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Last Exorcism
February 26, 2024To this end, he brings a documentary crew along to an isolated farm, where a troubled...
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Movies
A Watchful Eye On… Ti West
February 26, 2024Barely on the edge of thirty, filmmaker Ti West has four feature films - with more...
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Art
Art Review: Energy Effects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
February 26, 2024The exhibition brings such elements together to form a compelling meditation on the extreme reaches of...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Expendables
February 26, 2024Overkill is the name of the game in this gleeful throwback to the shoot-em-up favorites of...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Monday Night Combat
February 25, 2024For while the game is about a futuristic death sport, it’s light and upbeat, full of...
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Movies
The Weekly Listicle vs. The Most Badass Fight Scenes EVER!
February 25, 2024Julia Rhodes, Dan Fields and I (William Bibbiani!) are devoting this Weekly Listicle to some of...
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Movies
Catching Up With 2010: The Bounty Hunter
February 25, 2024Certain films are so pedestrian, so middle of the road, so damned mediocre that they’re not...
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Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
February 25, 2024Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
April 25, 2023The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
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History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
March 23, 2024These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
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After Image
A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
April 5, 2024There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...
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Art
The Denver Art Museum’s New Galleries of American Indian Art
April 5, 2024Navajo “eyedazzler” rugs of the nineteenth century, in which brilliantly colored wools form intricate diamonds, are...
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Dance
Review: Boston Ballet’s Bella Figura
April 13, 2024When the curtain rises on The Second Detail, the stage looks leeched of color: the leotards...
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Video Games
The Ballot Box Beat Down – A Hard Corps look at DLC
March 29, 2024Here at the Metro City Reform Committee we take a look at the issues going on...
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Art
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 6, 2024Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
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Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
March 28, 2024The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
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Movies & TV
An Interview with Writer/Director Julian Gilbey
April 10, 2024I like to think of myself sometimes as a bit of a Method director, so what...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
April 9, 2024The pieces in this collection are tight knots or loose koans—sweet little puzzles. Told with the...
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Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Coppélia
April 4, 2024This production is, in a word — glorious! The lush backgrounds, from the opening wisteria-covered village...
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