Blog-Dance
8 Questions with Choreographer/Dancer Robert Dekkers
April 8, 2026In addition to my work with Post:Ballet, I am currently dancing with Diablo Ballet, where I...
Television
If We Nominated The Nominees: Emmys 2012
April 8, 2026A look at shows/performers that should be nominated for the 2012 Emmys
Movies
Christopher Nolan: A Cinematic Retrospective Part One
April 7, 2026Photos courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Though he has only directed eight feature-length films, Christopher Nolan...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Key Largo, #67
April 7, 2026As the hurricane rages and Rocco paces nervously, McCloud tries to get in his head. “You...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Live Free or Die’ (Season 5, Episode 1)
April 7, 2026It’s especially interesting to observe how totally and unapologetically fused Walt and Jesse have become, no...
Movies
Christopher Nolan: A Cinematic Retrospective Part Two
April 7, 2026Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures After the success of Batman Begins, his biggest movie to...
Movies & TV
So Bad, It’s Brilliant: Brand X with Russell Brand
April 7, 2026A look at Brand X with Russell Brand
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Art
Art Review: Ends of the Earth: Land Art To 1974, MOCA, Los Angeles
April 6, 2026Land artists were critical of the sanitizing effects of situating artwork in a gallery, and Fluxus...
Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Fires of Idirsholas’ (Season 2, Episode 12)
April 6, 2026After lurching entertainingly around medieval legends and high-school romance plots for most of the season, the...
Music
Album Review: Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo Magellan
April 6, 2026We can never rediscover the true weirdness of the 1960s psychedelic movements without abandoning our own...
Music
EP Review: Angel Haze’s Reservation
April 6, 2026There are not an enormous number of 20-year-old, Native American, childhood-in-a-cult surviving, queer, female rapper/singers around...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘Catastrophization’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 6, 2026There’s a brilliant sequence right off the bat when he tries to help the meeting go...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘The Rapper’ (Season 2, Episode 4)
April 5, 2026The campaign for Getting It On may have hit a snag, vis-a-vis the distribution of bags...
Art
A Distant Mirror: Fashion and Identity in Colonial Latin America
April 5, 2026The scene depicted is officially entitled Garden Party on the Terrace of a Country Home, but...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Last Dragonlord’ (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 4, 2026The longer this series goes on, the more likely it seems that someone might raise a...
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Blog-Dance
Body In-Sight: Action Drawings from the Dance Studio at the Museum of Performance and Design, San Francisco
April 4, 2026Aided by mirrors installed in their jewel box set, the gallery audience watched as they performed...
Dance
8 Questions with Dancer/Choreographer David Van Ligon
April 4, 2026It was very exciting to get to showcase one of my works for Company C, and...
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Television
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Madrigal’ (Season 5, Episode 2)
April 4, 2026Walt gets a call on his cell phone from Mike while standing in the kitchen washing...
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Dance
Post:Ballet — Dreams, Seams, and Salience
April 4, 2026What does Post:Ballet mean in terms of classical ballet? Is it a rejection of the classical...
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Horror
Video Game Review: Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir
April 4, 2026In order to discover the secret of the house and escape the curse, you encounter 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,...
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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