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Merlin Recap: ‘The Witchfinder’ (Season 2, Episode 7)
April 14, 2026I can’t believe I seem to be suggesting that Merlin is better than The Crucible but...
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The Newsroom Recap: News Night 2.0 (Season 1, Episode 2)
April 14, 2026While last week’s episode straddled the line of fairness between liberal versus conservative ideology, tonight’s episode...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
April 14, 2026He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...
Movies
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
April 13, 2026When I first left the theater, I was ambivalent about this movie but hopeful about the...
Music
Album Review: Chris Brown’s Fortune
April 13, 2026It fails as a sexy album, a dance album and definitely as any kind of character...
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Movies
Movie Review: Savages
April 13, 2026Most entertaining are Benicio Del Toro and John Travolta. Del Toro plays Lado, Elena’s right hand...
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Video Games
Lamenting E3 2012 – A Preamble
April 12, 2026Perhaps because it’s an overcast July 4th here in my corner of usually beautiful and overly...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Let Him Have It, #69
April 12, 2026As the days tick down, you’ll start to sweat. As the hanging occurs—graphically and efficiently—you may...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve Recap — Season 1, Episode 6
April 12, 2026Someone has dumped a pile of horse manure for the Olympic Deliverance Team to clear up....
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Movies & TV
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
Seeking Absolution Solutions
April 11, 2026It’s raining. Outside the Waikiki Motel the palm trees sway with the showers under a sky...
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Movies & TV
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...
Gay and Lesbian
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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Movies & TV
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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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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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...
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
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
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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