Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Music
Album review: Deuce’s Nine Lives
May 8, 2026...and we have achieved triple threat; misogyny, racism and homophobia. Quite an achievement for a guy...
Video Games
In the Therapist’s Chair: Kingdom Hearts and Minecraft
May 7, 2026What makes video games brutal is often their most basic premise. If you think too long...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 7, 2026Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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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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Movies & TV
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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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Blog-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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100 Greatest Gangster Films
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...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
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Movies
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
September 1, 2026The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Iran
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
August 31, 2026In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
Television
The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
September 7, 2026Music is the heart and soul of New Orleans: Wendell Pierce in a publicity shot for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
September 12, 2026Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Movies
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
August 26, 2026Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
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