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Landscape and Memory: Wildfires Threaten Colorado’s Built Heritage
April 16, 2026As environmental writer Bill McKibben noted on Twitter, the evacuation of the nation’s center for research...
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The Newsroom Recap: We Just Decided To (Season 1, Episode 1)
April 16, 2026The Newsroom is smart, energetic and definitely going to keep audiences’ attention. Too bad we have...
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Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 16, 2026Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 2
April 15, 2026It rather sums up the problem which I noted last episode (and which will appear even...
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Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 1
April 15, 2026Still, nice to know the BBC’s independence is sufficiently robust (despite the continual brickbats cast at...
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Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 3
April 15, 2026There’s a fine line between criticising a show and simply describing the show you think it...
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Video Game Review: Lollipop Chainsaw
April 15, 2026The game’s main protagonist, zombie hunting high school cheer leader Juliet, is, like, totally blonde and...
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Movie Review: Magic Mike
April 15, 2026The genesis of Magic Mike came from conversations between Tatum and Soderbergh while filming Haywire. Tatum...
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Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast II’ (Season 2, Episode 6)
April 15, 2026“Fair is foul and foul is fair” as the witches in Macbeth chant. The only person...
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Twenty Twelve Recap — Season 1, Episode 4
April 14, 2026But this is the source of Boris’ power (the power pertaining to Alexander Boris de Pfeffel...
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Twenty Twelve Recap — Season 1, Episode 5
April 14, 2026One of the key questions they’ve agreed to ask the candidates is what exactly they think...
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Merlin Recap: ‘The Witchfinder’ (Season 2, Episode 7)
April 14, 2026I can’t believe I seem to be suggesting that Merlin is better than The Crucible but...
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The Newsroom Recap: News Night 2.0 (Season 1, Episode 2)
April 14, 2026While last week’s episode straddled the line of fairness between liberal versus conservative ideology, tonight’s episode...
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Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
April 14, 2026He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...
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Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
April 13, 2026When I first left the theater, I was ambivalent about this movie but hopeful about the...
Music
Album Review: Chris Brown’s Fortune
April 13, 2026It fails as a sexy album, a dance album and definitely as any kind of character...
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Movie Review: Savages
April 13, 2026Most entertaining are Benicio Del Toro and John Travolta. Del Toro plays Lado, Elena’s right hand...
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Lamenting E3 2012 – A Preamble
April 12, 2026Perhaps because it’s an overcast July 4th here in my corner of usually beautiful and overly...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Let Him Have It, #69
April 12, 2026As the days tick down, you’ll start to sweat. As the hanging occurs—graphically and efficiently—you may...
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Twenty Twelve Recap — Season 1, Episode 6
April 12, 2026Someone has dumped a pile of horse manure for the Olympic Deliverance Team to clear up....
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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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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...
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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...
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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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