Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Movies
The Great Music Videos #3: “Blue Song” by Mint Royale (dir. Edgar Wright)
September 22, 2026Fielding doesn’t have a watch… “Not that I read too good,” his defense… and asks for...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Ten Sequels We Actually WANT To See!
September 22, 2026Any sequel that gets us thinking about our lives, loves and futures is already a good...
Movies
Movie Review: Toy Story 3
September 22, 2026The toys have to employ numerous Rube Goldberg-style methods of escape—one imagines that board meetings with...
Movies
Did Alfred Hitchcock Invent the “That’s What She Said” Joke?
September 22, 2026In this clip, poor (yet fiercely adorable) Anny Ondra confesses that she "cannot speak well" while...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
September 21, 2026Justin Cronin has written an epic here. Like Stephen King’s The Stand and Robert McCammon’s Swan...
Movies
Movie Review: Jonah Hex
September 21, 2026Any audience member unlucky enough to find themselves in a theater showing Jonah Hex will soon...
Movies
When Movie Marketing FAILS: Cats & Dogs 2, Knight & Day, Babies and Grown Ups
September 21, 2026You could not pay me to see Babies. Well, strike that, you could pay me, but...
Art
Arizona and the Politics of Mural Painting
September 21, 2026Murals are designed to unite communities, create beauty and celebrate common values. The horrific reaction to...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Remakes We Love
September 18, 2026Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan in June 11’s remake of The Karate Kid. This week’s release...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
September 18, 2026Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
September 18, 2026While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
Movies
Movie Review: The A-Team
September 18, 2026It would be foolish to say that Carnahan reined himself in, since these are some of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: My Life with Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz
September 18, 2026Charles Schulz (1922-2000) started out simply wanting to draw for a living. He never had any...
Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Africa
Art Review: Object, Image, Collector at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 18, 2026It’s the photoetching, a 1974 work called “The Train,” that is really breath-taking. It seems to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
September 18, 2026In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
Biography
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
September 18, 2026It was an appeal on behalf of Mario Rocha, a Los Angeleno of Mexican descent, who...
Movies
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FILM?: Barry Caillier’s Daredreamer!
September 18, 2026If you've seen Daredreamer, particularly around the time it was first released, I'd love to hear...
Movies
QUIT IT! (A Moviegoer’s Pet Peeves)
September 18, 2026In the last year or so I’ve become almost as comfortable in the local theater as...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: Insultingly BAD Movies
September 17, 2026They exist to make money more than tell a story, and are fully satisfied to merely...
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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