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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Movie Review: Dark Horse
April 17, 2026Dark Horse is Todd Solondz' most accessible movie since his masterpiece Happiness, but that doesn't mean...
Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 17, 2026At first glance it seems absolutely obvious what is going on here: to whit, some pretty...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Valachi Papers, #70
April 17, 2026While the acting is choppy and sometimes overly dramatic in The Valachi Papers, the story stays...
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Dance
Wepa! It’s Aqua Zumba!
April 16, 2026“The way I see it,” says Solano, “is that the endorphins kick in and make you...
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Architecture
Landscape and Memory: Wildfires Threaten Colorado’s Built Heritage
April 16, 2026As environmental writer Bill McKibben noted on Twitter, the evacuation of the nation’s center for research...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: We Just Decided To (Season 1, Episode 1)
April 16, 2026The Newsroom is smart, energetic and definitely going to keep audiences’ attention. Too bad we have...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 16, 2026Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 2
April 15, 2026It rather sums up the problem which I noted last episode (and which will appear even...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 1
April 15, 2026Still, nice to know the BBC’s independence is sufficiently robust (despite the continual brickbats cast at...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve — Season 1, Episode 3
April 15, 2026There’s a fine line between criticising a show and simply describing the show you think it...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Lollipop Chainsaw
April 15, 2026The game’s main protagonist, zombie hunting high school cheer leader Juliet, is, like, totally blonde and...
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Movies
Movie Review: Magic Mike
April 15, 2026The genesis of Magic Mike came from conversations between Tatum and Soderbergh while filming Haywire. Tatum...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast II’ (Season 2, Episode 6)
April 15, 2026“Fair is foul and foul is fair” as the witches in Macbeth chant. The only person...
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Television
Twenty Twelve Recap — Season 1, Episode 4
April 14, 2026But this is the source of Boris’ power (the power pertaining to Alexander Boris de Pfeffel...
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Movies & TV
Twenty Twelve Recap — Season 1, Episode 5
April 14, 2026One of the key questions they’ve agreed to ask the candidates is what exactly they think...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Witchfinder’ (Season 2, Episode 7)
April 14, 2026I can’t believe I seem to be suggesting that Merlin is better than The Crucible but...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: News Night 2.0 (Season 1, Episode 2)
April 14, 2026While last week’s episode straddled the line of fairness between liberal versus conservative ideology, tonight’s episode...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
April 14, 2026He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
April 13, 2026When I first left the theater, I was ambivalent about this movie but hopeful about the...
Music
Album Review: Chris Brown’s Fortune
April 13, 2026It fails as a sexy album, a dance album and definitely as any kind of character...
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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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