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Blog-Dance
Five Questions with Oregon Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Christopher Stowell
May 15, 2022We have created a lean, but very powerful group of artists with an incredible work ethic...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
May 15, 2022Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 14, 2022Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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Blog-Music
Album review: Deuce’s Nine Lives
May 14, 2022...and we have achieved triple threat; misogyny, racism and homophobia. Quite an achievement for a guy...
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Games
Video Game Review: Fez
May 14, 2022While not completely original (Paper Mario and Echochrome both used similar mechanics) the concept has never...
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Performing Arts
Broadway Review: Nice Work If You Can Get It
May 14, 2022Broderick gives a generous performance, turning on his patented man-child charm when called upon, but also...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
May 14, 2022A recap/review of The Office: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
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Movies & TV
Community Recap: Course Listing Unavailable (Season 3, Episode 18)
May 13, 2022Are they, in fact, in the darkest time line? Even though things haven’t worked out the...
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
May 13, 2022Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...
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Movies
Trailer Watch: The Expendables 2
May 12, 2022Whatever you felt about the The Expendables, you are meant to feel ten times over about...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Avengers
May 12, 2022Not to compare actors to superheroes, but this cast could easily have exploded in our faces;...
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Rufus Wainwright’s Out of the Game
May 12, 2022Underneath the skin of the music there is the pulse of the long car trip, songs...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
May 12, 2022A recap/review of The Killing: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 12, 2022So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “Lady Lazarus” (Season 5, Episode 8)
May 12, 2022Can you believe we’re already two-thirds through season five? As Pete’s high school crush said a...
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Books
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
May 12, 2022As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse’s Time’s All Gone
May 11, 2022There is the distinctly unnerving sensation of both familiarity and newness; the sound of another era...
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Blog-Video Games
The Finale Solution – Three of Them, Actually.
May 11, 2022End Errors: Game, Postscript For the last month or so, I’ve been talking about how terrible...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: King of New York, #77
May 11, 2022Christopher Walken plays—as only Walken can—Frank White, a drug dealer whose release from prison sets the...
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Blog-Dance
Smuin Ballet and Diablo Ballet: Two Praiseworthy Bay Area Dance Companies
May 11, 2022There are a few privileges that come with the role of dance critic. One that is...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 25, 2022But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 15, 2022That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 12, 2022So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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Blog-Video Games
The Finale Solution – Three of Them, Actually.
May 11, 2022End Errors: Game, Postscript For the last month or so, I’ve been talking about how terrible...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
May 15, 2022Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 14, 2022Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Everybody Dies’ (Season 8, Episode 22 – Series Finale)
May 4, 2022And now to the issues fans will no doubt be debating for ages to come: Did...
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Nature
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 15, 2022The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 22, 2022At first glance it seems absolutely obvious what is going on here: to whit, some pretty...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Lancelot and Guinevere’ (Season 2, Episode 4)
April 23, 2022One of the real points of interest in Merlin is watching the way the show takes...
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