Dance
Five Questions with Oregon Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Christopher Stowell
May 7, 2026We have created a lean, but very powerful group of artists with an incredible work ethic...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Fez
May 7, 2026While not completely original (Paper Mario and Echochrome both used similar mechanics) the concept has never...
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Theatre
Broadway Review: Nice Work If You Can Get It
May 7, 2026Broderick gives a generous performance, turning on his patented man-child charm when called upon, but also...
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Television
Community Recap: Course Listing Unavailable (Season 3, Episode 18)
May 6, 2026Are they, in fact, in the darkest time line? Even though things haven’t worked out the...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
May 6, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
May 5, 2026Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...
Movies
Trailer Watch: The Expendables 2
May 5, 2026Whatever 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 5, 2026Not to compare actors to superheroes, but this cast could easily have exploded in our faces;...
Music
Album Review: Rufus Wainwright’s Out of the Game
May 5, 2026Underneath the skin of the music there is the pulse of the long car trip, songs...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “Lady Lazarus” (Season 5, Episode 8)
May 5, 2026Can you believe we’re already two-thirds through season five? As Pete’s high school crush said a...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 4, 2026So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
May 4, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
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Video Games
The Finale Solution – Three of Them, Actually.
May 4, 2026End Errors: Game, Postscript For the last month or so, I’ve been talking about how terrible...
Religion
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
May 4, 2026As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
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Dance
Smuin Ballet and Diablo Ballet: Two Praiseworthy Bay Area Dance Companies
May 3, 2026There are a few privileges that come with the role of dance critic. One that is...
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Music
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse’s Time’s All Gone
May 3, 2026There is the distinctly unnerving sensation of both familiarity and newness; the sound of another era...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: King of New York, #77
May 3, 2026Christopher Walken plays—as only Walken can—Frank White, a drug dealer whose release from prison sets the...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Free Family Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
May 3, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Family Free Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
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Movies
Movie Review: Dark Shadows
May 2, 2026As Ichabod Crane, as Willy Wonka, Ed Wood, the Mad Hatter, or Sweeney Todd, Depp’s persona...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Pandora’s Tower
May 2, 2026What was once iconic – big hair, slender waists and massive...uh...assets – has become a laughable...
Art & Design
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Biography
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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