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Mad Men Recap: “Lady Lazarus” (Season 5, Episode 8)
May 5, 2026Can you believe we’re already two-thirds through season five? As Pete’s high school crush said a...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 4, 2026So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
May 4, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
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Video Games
The Finale Solution – Three of Them, Actually.
May 4, 2026End Errors: Game, Postscript For the last month or so, I’ve been talking about how terrible...
Books
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
May 4, 2026As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
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Blog-Dance
Smuin Ballet and Diablo Ballet: Two Praiseworthy Bay Area Dance Companies
May 3, 2026There are a few privileges that come with the role of dance critic. One that is...
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse’s Time’s All Gone
May 3, 2026There is the distinctly unnerving sensation of both familiarity and newness; the sound of another era...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: King of New York, #77
May 3, 2026Christopher Walken plays—as only Walken can—Frank White, a drug dealer whose release from prison sets the...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Free Family Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
May 3, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Family Free Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
Movies
Movie Review: Dark Shadows
May 2, 2026As Ichabod Crane, as Willy Wonka, Ed Wood, the Mad Hatter, or Sweeney Todd, Depp’s persona...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Pandora’s Tower
May 2, 2026What was once iconic – big hair, slender waists and massive...uh...assets – has become a laughable...
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Movies & TV
The KillingRecap: Off The Reservation (Season 2, Episode 8)
May 2, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Off the Reservation (Season 2, Episode 8)
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Movies & TV
NBC: The 2012-2013 Television Season
May 2, 2026A look at NBC's Fall and Midseason Schedule
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Television
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’
May 2, 2026The whole episode seemed to revolve around questions of perception and memory, and the way recognising...
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Blog-Video Games
A Throne of Games – Volume 1 – A Historie of Consoleflict
May 2, 2026Tell me, O muse, of that time long ago when there were no video games. When...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “Dark Shadows” (Season 5, Episode 9)
May 1, 2026This week marks the return of Betty Francis, the wounded whale. Betty, struggling to lose weight,...
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Movies & TV
FOX: The 2012-2013 Television Season
May 1, 2026A look at the 2012-2013 schedule for FOX.
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
May 1, 2026Sometimes the worst thing about being a pessimist is how often you’re right. I would have...
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Movies & TV
CBS: The 2012-2013 Television Season
May 1, 2026A Look at the CBS 2012-2013 Television Season
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Video Games
Overachievers: In Pursuit Of 1000G
May 1, 2026In a moment of madness I cared too much about finding everything, about doing everything, and...
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,...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Military
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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