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Merlin Recap: ‘The Sins of the Father’ (Season 2, Episode 8)
April 12, 2026Though as the mysterious knight’s identity is revealed, it turns out that the gracious Sir is...
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Video Games
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April 11, 2026It’s raining. Outside the Waikiki Motel the palm trees sway with the showers under a sky...
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Merlin Recap: ‘The Lady of the Lake’ (Season 2, Episode 9)
April 11, 2026That which will be given to Freya must be stolen from Arthur, and so Merlin goes...
Music
Album Review: Hot Chip’s In Our Heads
April 11, 2026dancing in the summer seems masochistic. Yet In Our Heads by Hot Chip may very well...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: In One Person by John Irving
April 11, 2026And therein shines the beauty of Irving’s tale, who we used to be as a society...
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Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘Boycott, Part 1’ (Season 2, Episode 1)
April 11, 2026And they’re off! Another series of the BBC’s relentlessly gentle satire on the absurdities of the...
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Blog-Dance
Dance USA’s 30th Anniversary Conference
April 11, 2026After having been dragged into an undertow where only conference-ese is spoken, two performance programs featuring...
Movies
Best and Worst Movies of 2012 – The First Half
April 10, 2026The Fourth Wall Presents A Look At Our Five Best and There Worst Movies of the...
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Art
Art Review: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 10, 2026A dark mass of ominous clouds invades the blue sky in La Grande Bacchanale. In Et...
Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: The 112th Congress (Season 1, Episode 3)
April 10, 2026Photos courtesy of Melissa Moseley/HBO It would be surprising to hear anyone argue that last night’s...
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Blog-Video Games
Farcry 3, Fight Club, and Ultra-Violence: Or Why Gaming Needs to Gain Weight!
April 10, 2026Of the many previews that emerged from this year’s E3 to generate hype, one that didn’t...
Music
Mixtape review: Childish Gambino’s Royalty
April 10, 2026Childish Gambino is the not-really-a-side-project rap persona of multiple-threat megatalent Donald Glover. What he's most famous...
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Art
Art Review: Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line, The Getty Center
April 9, 2026Fans of animation will feel at home here – this is an exhibit all about the...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘Boycott: Part 2’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
April 9, 2026Particularly laughed at her agreeing so wholeheartedly with Ian Fletcher’s ideas that she prevents him from...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Atlantic City, #68
April 9, 2026Lou was one tough Atlantic City gangster in his time. Says he knew Al Capone, Lucky...
Historical Fiction
Singin’ In The Rain: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
April 9, 2026It is more than just one of the all-time greats, grouped with the likes of Casablanca...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Sweet Dreams’ (Season 2, Episode 10)
April 9, 2026The rulers in question are converging on Camelot for a peace conference of the kind I...
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Merlin Recap: ‘The Witch’s Quickening’ (Season 2, Episode 11)
April 8, 2026Mordred is being smuggled into Camelot hidden in a barrel, whilst he psychically gives directions to...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: I’ll Try to Fix You (Season 1, Episode 4)
April 8, 2026The next day, Page Six runs a story about Will groping Nina at the party. Charlie...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘Clarence House’ (Season 2, Episode 3)
April 8, 2026Anyway, the royal flunkies have called because they want to talk about a possible co-branding opportunity,...
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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