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Music
Album review: Silversun Pickups’ Neck of the Woods
April 26, 2026The Smashing Pumpkins themselves were not the sort of people who listened to Melon Collie on...
Movies
Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
April 25, 2026After a kiss reawakens Snow White (though it may not be the kiss you’re expecting, which...
Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Roaring Twenties, #74
April 25, 2026Warner Brothers owned the franchise for gangster films in the 1930s. The studio capped the decade...
Writers
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
April 25, 2026But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
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Theatre
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
April 25, 2026It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...
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Movies
Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom
April 25, 2026These off-realities of Wes Anderson's movies also enable him to create gorgeous works, and Moonrise Kingdom...
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Great Britain
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 5
April 24, 2026Of course we can’t know what goes on in the writers’ rooms, but combining Martin’s hand-turned...
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Music
Dance to the Music: National Youth Orchestras of Chile
April 24, 2026My father, Hugo Domínguez, had been Hen’s assistant, and one day they were walking in a...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
April 24, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ Here
April 24, 2026This is the music of firepits and families, and tells the story of the everyman trudging...
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Dance
Claiming Cranko’s Shrewd Choreography: An Interview with Andreza Randisek and Rodrigo Guzmán
April 24, 2026This ballet is so hard! It will never go perfectly no matter how much you rehearse....
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Art
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
April 23, 2026The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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Movies
Movie Review: Prometheus
April 23, 2026Early in the film, we meet Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Dr. Charlie Holloway (Logan...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “Commissions and Fees” (Season 5, Episode 12)
April 23, 2026Well. Did you see that coming? I suppose I did, but it was still a stunner...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Analyze This, #73
April 23, 2026The film succeeds because of strong performances by its two stars. Veteran comic actor Billy Crystal...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Diablo III
April 23, 2026Herein dwells the problem. The treatment of your combatants as mere faceless fodder makes gameplay as...
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Movies
Trailer Watch: Django Unchained
April 22, 2026After countless musical and stylistic hints in films like Kill Bill and em>Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 6
April 22, 2026You wonder if you’re hallucinating the whiff of gender politics until Nicola turns up. I love...
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
April 22, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap – Series 2, Episode 1
April 22, 2026You know what’s good about Merlin? (No, not that, we’re leaving that ‘til the second paragraph,...
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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...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
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