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Revolution Recap: No Quarter (Season 1, Episode 3)
March 13, 2026A recap/review of Revolution- No Quarter (Season 1, Episode 3)
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Doctor Who Recap: ‘The Angels Take Manhattan’ (Season 33/Series 7, Episode 5)
March 13, 2026Our gumshoe comes face to face with his older self and then runs for the roof...
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Music
Album review: Delilah’s From The Roots Up
March 13, 2026Probably the most pleasant piece of difficult listening ever, it slightly reminds me of early Tori...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘Money Plays’ (Season 1, Episode 2)
March 13, 2026In its second week, Cowboys vs. Gangsters!, aka Vegas, seems to be finding its feet.
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Movies & TV
The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Protect and Serve’ (Season 1, Episode 3)
March 12, 2026As in previous weeks, the “mob” part continues to be more compelling than the “doctor” part....
Movies
Movie Review: Pitch Perfect
March 12, 2026In Pitch Perfect, nobody’s more than The Fat One, The Sexy One, The Dumb One, The...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Andy’s Ancestry (Season 9, Episode 3)
March 11, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Andy's Ancestry (Season 9, Episode 3)
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Drunken Angel, #56
March 11, 2026This one, we know, is a tough sell. Drunken Angel is a 60-plus-year-old, black-and-white, subtitled Japanese...
Blog-Dance
9 Questions with Choreographer Adam Hougland
March 11, 2026Smuin Ballet, as part of its opening program for the 2012–2013 season, is presenting the West...
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Blog-Dance
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Speaks Ballet In a Dialect All Its Own
March 11, 2026Appearing at the Cullen Theater in Houston’s Wortham Center on September 29, the small but sturdy...
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Movies & TV
Revolution: The Plague Dogs (Season 1, Episode 4)
March 11, 2026A recap/review of Revolution: The Plague Dogs Season 1, Episode 4
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Halloween Home Video #1: Joe Dante’s The Hole
March 11, 2026Halloween Home Video (2012 edition) is your guide to the unsung scare flicks, thrill pics, and...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘All That Glitters’ (Season 1, Episode 3)
March 11, 2026Three weeks in, I’ll admit that Vegas is growing on me, even though tonight it displayed...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Borderlands 2
March 10, 2026At some point, perhaps in the middle of a gun battle against bandits protected by shields...
Movies
Halloween Home Video #2: Pascal Laugier’s The Tall Man
March 10, 2026Halloween Home Video 2012, for your spooky holiday enjoyment! Today's pick: Pascal Laugier's moody thriller The...
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Television
The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Change of Heart’ (Season 1, Episode 4)
March 10, 2026We end with Moretti planning his triumphant return to Chicago, but we’ll have to wait to...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Office Girl by Jay Meno
March 10, 2026Chicago is the city, 1999 is the year. This book is a love story but one...
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Movies
Movie Review: Here Comes the Boom
March 10, 2026Mixed Martial Arts/Ultimate Fighting Championship has certainly hit the big time when it becomes the subject...
Sports
Game of the Week: Texas vs Oklahoma — The View from England
March 9, 2026I mean, they might blush a little when contemplating the way their run defense allowed Williams...
Movies
Halloween Home Video #3: V/H/S
March 9, 2026Check out the best in horror on video of 2012. This weekend, press play on the...
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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