Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Satire
Trailer Watch: Wreck-It Ralph
April 22, 2026What sounds funnier: a genre-hopping quest across the video game spectrum by a generic galoot drawn...
Movies
Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed
April 21, 2026Safety Not Guaranteed is a movie that creeps up on you, in a very friendly and...
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Music
EP Review: Sara Bareilles’ Once Upon Another Time
April 21, 2026Opening with such an incredibly slow track, melodic but free of refrain and rambling, is a...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 21, 2026But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Blog-Theater
The Cunning Little Vixen, Live-streamed from Glyndebourne Opera House
April 21, 2026It has not been an altogether popular production, not least with the huffy Glyndebourne reactionaries who...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “The Phantom” (Season 5, Episode 13)
April 21, 2026Don Draper has a rotten tooth that’s causing him immense pain. He refuses to have it...
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Movies
Movie Review: That’s My Boy
April 20, 2026That's My Boy opens with a teenaged Donny Berger (thankfully not played by a CGI'ed Adam...
Blog-Theater
Ben Vereen Opens Up About Fame, Addiction and Love
April 20, 2026I love my public, and if I’m walking down the street and someone wants to take...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Once and Future Queen’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
April 20, 2026Meanwhile Arthur himself is suffering from tragic royal ennui. He worries that the only reason he...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Nightmare Begins’ (Season 2, Episode 3)
April 20, 2026Unsympathetic spectators might hazard that her unquiet slumbers have something to do with her invariable habit...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 7
April 20, 2026In other words, he’s committed a terrible crime, not by stealing information, but by stealing attention....
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 19, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
Music
Album Review: Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
April 19, 2026Yet there is power in childishness, and strength in it as well – there is innocence...
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Dance
Bay Area Dancers Perform in a Benefit for Cancer Prevention
April 19, 2026On Wednesday, June 6, thirty-three dancers from or associated with twelve San Francisco Bay Area dance...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killers, #71
April 19, 2026Ernest Hemingway hated Hollywood. Or, more to the point, the great American author hated Hollywood’s treatment...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Game of Thrones
April 19, 2026So, does this Game of Thrones manage to live up to the promise of its source...
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Movies
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
April 18, 2026The director’s signature speedy, frenetic zooms punctuate a film that’s smoothly paced and winkingly earnest. The...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 8
April 18, 2026Tucker’s resignation is the two-headed calf or woman giving birth to rabbits of the modern era:...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Lancelot and Guinevere’ (Season 2, Episode 4)
April 17, 2026One of the real points of interest in Merlin is watching the way the show takes...
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Movies
Movie Review: Brave
April 17, 2026This is not your typical Disney princess rendition of romance. In fact, it has no essential...
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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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