Music
The Cunning Little Vixen, Live-streamed from Glyndebourne Opera House
April 21, 2026It has not been an altogether popular production, not least with the huffy Glyndebourne reactionaries who...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “The Phantom” (Season 5, Episode 13)
April 21, 2026Don Draper has a rotten tooth that’s causing him immense pain. He refuses to have it...
Movies
Movie Review: That’s My Boy
April 20, 2026That's My Boy opens with a teenaged Donny Berger (thankfully not played by a CGI'ed Adam...
Music
Ben Vereen Opens Up About Fame, Addiction and Love
April 20, 2026I love my public, and if I’m walking down the street and someone wants to take...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Once and Future Queen’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
April 20, 2026Meanwhile Arthur himself is suffering from tragic royal ennui. He worries that the only reason he...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Nightmare Begins’ (Season 2, Episode 3)
April 20, 2026Unsympathetic spectators might hazard that her unquiet slumbers have something to do with her invariable habit...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 7
April 20, 2026In other words, he’s committed a terrible crime, not by stealing information, but by stealing attention....
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 19, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
Music
Album Review: Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
April 19, 2026Yet there is power in childishness, and strength in it as well – there is innocence...
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Dance
Bay Area Dancers Perform in a Benefit for Cancer Prevention
April 19, 2026On Wednesday, June 6, thirty-three dancers from or associated with twelve San Francisco Bay Area dance...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killers, #71
April 19, 2026Ernest Hemingway hated Hollywood. Or, more to the point, the great American author hated Hollywood’s treatment...
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Games
Video Game Review: Game of Thrones
April 19, 2026So, does this Game of Thrones manage to live up to the promise of its source...
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Movies
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
April 18, 2026The director’s signature speedy, frenetic zooms punctuate a film that’s smoothly paced and winkingly earnest. The...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 8
April 18, 2026Tucker’s resignation is the two-headed calf or woman giving birth to rabbits of the modern era:...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Lancelot and Guinevere’ (Season 2, Episode 4)
April 17, 2026One of the real points of interest in Merlin is watching the way the show takes...
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Movies
Movie Review: Brave
April 17, 2026This is not your typical Disney princess rendition of romance. In fact, it has no essential...
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Movies
Movie Review: Dark Horse
April 17, 2026Dark Horse is Todd Solondz' most accessible movie since his masterpiece Happiness, but that doesn't mean...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 17, 2026At first glance it seems absolutely obvious what is going on here: to whit, some pretty...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Valachi Papers, #70
April 17, 2026While the acting is choppy and sometimes overly dramatic in The Valachi Papers, the story stays...
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Dance
Wepa! It’s Aqua Zumba!
April 16, 2026“The way I see it,” says Solano, “is that the endorphins kick in and make you...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
History
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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