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The Weekly Listicle: San Diego Comic Con Edition!
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The State of Celebrity and Meltdowns: Lindsay Lohan and Mel Gibson
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
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Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Sidekicks and Why the World Needs Them
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Games
Video Game Review: DeathSpank
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: Inception
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Art
The Most Offensive Painting Ever Made
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Thrillers
Book Review: The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
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Movies
Perspective and Retrospective: Paging Nicolas Cage
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Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Supervillains of Evil Evilness
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Movies
Movie Review: Despicable Me
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Movies
Movie Review: Predators
September 27, 2026In the original Predator, and to a limited extent in Predator 2, the backdrop of all...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Chords of Strength by David Archuleta
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The Fourth Wall
Whole Lotta Lovecraft: del Toro on deck?
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
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Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
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Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
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Music
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
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Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
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Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
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Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
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Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
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Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
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The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
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