Performing Arts
Nothin’ Short of Dyin’ Half as Lonesome as the Sound
April 4, 2026The last time I saw Johnny Cash was the first time I saw Johnny Cash –...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: State of Grace, #66
April 3, 2026In real life, the Westies developed working relationships with both the Genovese and Gambino crime families...
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Television
Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘Loose Ends’ (Season 2, Episode 7)
April 3, 2026The main loose end seems to be the ground-to-air missiles which may be triggered by the...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘Inclusivity Day’ (Season 2, Episode 6)
April 3, 2026So the last episode ended with the head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission being shot in...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Hazard Pay’ (Season 5, Episode 3)
April 3, 2026Walt began the series as a misunderstood protagonist caught up in the glamour and adrenaline rush...
Blog-Music
Album Review: Passion Pit’s Gossamer
April 2, 2026But like hunting for proof of Nessie or Bigfoot, these moments of inspiration that you took...
Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: Bullies (Season 1, Episode 6)
April 2, 2026Despite whatever his shortcomings as a boss/writer/collaborator may be, Aaron Sorkin can deliver one hell of...
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Mystery
Trailer Watch: Paranormal Activity 4
April 2, 2026Paranormal Activity, now the reigning monarch of name-brand Halloween flicks (after the merciful retirement of Saw...
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Music
Interview: Cory Jreamz
April 2, 2026Recently turned 18, he’s already released a dense, interesting EP of smooth, electronic hip hop where...
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Dance
Spines, Wines and Dragonflies: Groovin’ in Stern Grove with the San Francisco Ballet
April 2, 2026For me, Frances Chung and Daniel Deivison, as the couple in orange, delivered the most virtuosic...
Movies
Movie Review: Killer Joe, A Hitman Worth Hiring
April 1, 2026Whether this marks a lasting change in his career trajectory remains to be seen, but it...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Salvatore Giuliano, #65
April 1, 2026There is a common refrain among academics and law enforcement officials who have studied the Italian...
Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: 5/1 (Season 1, Episode 7)
April 1, 2026Photos courtesy of HBO Just when I was getting excited to watch The Newsroom every Sunday...
Blog-Music
Album review: Purity Ring’s Shrines
April 1, 2026James plays on her small-sounding voice a lot, which I found increasingly grating the more I...
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Art
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
April 1, 2026But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...
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Art
Art Review: Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery Princeton University Art Museum
March 31, 2026Zhang transformed Mr. Quaker into Chairman Mao five years after he emigrated to the United States....
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Lower River by Paul Theroux
March 31, 2026She cautions him, “They will eat your money,” she said. “When your money is gone, they...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Bullets Over Broadway, #64
March 31, 2026Woody Allen broke out of a directing funk with this classic underworld comedy, a Runyonesque look...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Fifty-One’ (Season 5, Episode 4)
March 31, 2026Finally Skyler caves, admitting she doesn’t have a good plan to get the kids away from...
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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