Anthropology
Archival Culture(s)
November 26, 2025It is scarcely news that in a vast, pluralistic country like the United States, minorities should...
Art & Design
Art for a New Gilded Age
November 26, 2025Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
Architecture
Architecture and Modernism
November 25, 2025For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency –...
Politics
Blue State Blues
November 25, 2025The urban African Americans and Hispanics, the Jewish community, the gays and lesbians, the professionals, the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Borges: A Poet’s Quest for Simplicity
November 24, 2025Simplicity requires oneness. If you want to be someone, you are two and you are not...
Television
DVD Review. I, Claudius: The Complete Series 35th Anniversary Edition
November 24, 2025The whip-smart dialogue, as fans of the series well know, forms a giddy counterpoint to an...
Movies
Movie Review: The Five-Year Engagement
November 24, 2025The Five-Year Engagement Directed by Nicholas Stoller Screenplay by Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller Starring: Jason Segel,...
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Movies & TV
CLR Writer, David Loftus, Recounts His Role as a ‘Reaper’ on NBC’s Grimm
November 24, 2025The director came over between takes and said, “I like what you’re doing, I’m seeing plenty...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Raven
November 24, 2025The Raven is a piece of historical fiction about what happened during Edgar Allan Poe's (John...
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Openings (Season 2, Episode 6)
November 24, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Openings (Season 2, Episode 6)
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Dance
Don Quixote, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, April 27, 2012
November 24, 2025Let the ballet snobs pound sand in the corrida if they find neither rhyme, reason, nor...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Pirates! Band of Misfits
November 23, 2025Meanwhile, the West Indies are buzzing with the imminent Pirate Of The Year Awards. The most...
Blog-Music
Album Review: This Machine from The Dandy Warhols
November 23, 2025At times it's hard to escape an identity that a band has established over the years,...
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Movies & TV
NBC’s Fantasy Series Grimm, Set in Portland, Oregon
November 23, 2025For those who haven’t seen the show, Grimm starts from the premise that all the supernatural...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Fundraiser (Season 8, Episode 22)
November 23, 2025A recap/review of The Office: Fundraiser (Season 8, Episode 22)
Dance
An Interview with San Francisco Ballet Soloist Clara Blanco
November 23, 2025But dancing a character both fulfills and exhausts you. After Artifact, I felt dead, but it...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Federal Hill, #79
November 22, 2025Writer-director Michael Corrente took the title and setting for his first movie from the Italian-American section...
Books
Book Review: HHhH by Laurent Binet
November 22, 2025What results, however, is an awkward success story. Unseasonably dedicated to fact and accuracy, positively frightened...
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Television
House Recap: ‘Body and Soul’ (Season 8, Episode 18)
November 22, 2025This was the fifth-to-last episode, by my count. Tonight we had nightmare visions, erotic dreams, an...
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Satire
Blu-Ray/DVD Review: The Wicker Tree
November 22, 2025The rites themselves have changed in practice if not in spirit, and the movie rekindles enough...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
August 16, 2024The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
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Television
House Recap: ‘Body and Soul’ (Season 8, Episode 18)
November 22, 2025This was the fifth-to-last episode, by my count. Tonight we had nightmare visions, erotic dreams, an...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Openings (Season 2, Episode 6)
November 24, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Openings (Season 2, Episode 6)
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Numb (Season 2, Episode 3)
November 15, 2025A recap/review of The Killing- Numb (Season 2, Episode 3)
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Ogi Jun (Season 2, Episode 4)
November 18, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Ogi Jun (Season 2, Episode 4)
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Blowing the Whistle’ (Season 8, Episode 15)
November 14, 2025Anyway, we open at the airport, where a young military family – mom, kid, dad covered...
Non-Fiction Reviews
False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
November 29, 2025"The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the...
Architecture
Architecture and Modernism
November 25, 2025For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency –...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Ghosts of the Past (Season 2, Episode 5)
November 21, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Ghosts of the Past (Season 2, Episode 5)
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Reflections + My Lucky Day (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2)
November 14, 2025A recap/review of The Killing- Reflections and My Lucky Day (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2)
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘We Need the Eggs’ (Season 8, Episode 17)
November 19, 2025I don’t know if others will agree, but I really, really liked this one. Funny, fast-paced,...
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