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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Movies
Movie Review: The Apparition
March 26, 2026In bad horror movies, even women who are supposed to be educated and independent wear very...
Art
Remembering Robert Hughes – Re-watching American Visions
March 26, 2026On another note entirely, the eighth and final episode offers the enduring pleasures of Hughes’s prickly...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 26, 2026As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Dance
Summertime Digital Dance Quiz
March 26, 2026Which was more important to you in Billy Elliot—the dancing or the plot?
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Movies
Movie Review: Cosmopolis
March 25, 2026The short shelf lives of even the best individuals. The apathy towards one’s surroundings. The vibe...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Say My Name’ (Season 5, Episode 7)
March 25, 2026Mike’s murder isn’t just scary because it’s pointless, it’s upsetting because it’s not in Walt’s own...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: The Greater Fool (Season 1, Episode 10)
March 25, 2026Photos courtesy of Melissa Moseley/HBO Last night’s episode of The Newsroom was the season finale, a...
Books
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 25, 2026Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Thrillers
True Blood Recap: Season 5 Raises The Stakes
March 25, 2026True Blood has tightened up considerably since the meandering adventures of Season 4, despite the fact...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
March 24, 2026As befits a former poet, Hughes’s writing is economical yet stylish, atmospheric without being fussy. And...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Things Change, #61
March 24, 2026When the courtly Ameche saw that the script required him to curse, he held up the...
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Movies
Movie Review: Lawless
March 24, 2026From the opening credits, framed in a colorful autumn canopy, to the final shot, a restored...
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Dance
Interview with the Late Mirta Hermida, Headmistress of the Cuban National Ballet School
March 23, 2026Understanding that dancers’ careers had a limited time span and usually ended at the age of...
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Movies
Movie Review: Side by Side
March 23, 2026In an early voiceover, Reeves explains that Side by Side is about “the science, art and...
Blog-Theater
Theatre Review: Three Men In A Boat, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England
March 23, 2026There are laughs to be had, but this feels more like a sketch than a fully-fledged...
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Art
American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
March 23, 2026But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...
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Movies & TV
Doctor Who Recap: ‘Asylum of the Daleks’ (Season 33/Series 7, Episode 1)
March 23, 2026When you get that much before the theme tune it’s probably going to be a good...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Sleeping Dogs
March 23, 2026Taking massive cues from Hong Kong action cinema, especially “Heroic Bloodshed” classics like City on Fire...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Gliding Over All’ (Season 5, Episode 8)
March 22, 2026Two montages in one episode, guys! This one is set, adorably, to “Crystal Blue Persuasion” by...
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Theatre
Is there life after Fringe? Four shows that deserve longer runs.
March 22, 2026In the meantime we Fringe attendees enjoy compiling our personal wish lists. Here, in addition to...
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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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