Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
-
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet
November 14, 2022I never tire of seeing After the Rain, however, and doubt that I will. This ballet,...
-
Best Movies
The Weekly Listicle: No, We CAN’T Feel The Love Tonight!
November 14, 2022This week, Julia Rhodes and I (Dan Fields) recall a bygone era, when entertainment for kids...
-
History
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
November 12, 2022This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
-
Blog-Video Games
The Metro City Reform Committee: Monday Nights at the Giant Ape Fights!
November 12, 2022But something seems wrong in gamingdom. The boss battle and especially the LAST boss battle to...
-
Blog-Dance
Review: Parsons Dance at the Joyce
November 12, 2022Name a piece "Bachiana" and you invite comparison to two twentieth-century greats: Fokine's Chopiniana, with its...
-
Games
Video Game Review: Bionic Commando Rearmed 2
November 12, 2022Bit of a disclaimer: the original Bionic Commando on the NES was the favorite game of...
-
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: RAkU, Symphonic Variations and Symphony in C
November 12, 2022A new Possokhov ballet is something SFB audiences have come to relish, and RAkU did not...
-
Movies
The Weekly Listicle is Seeing Double!
November 12, 2022The Roommate‘s Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester. Fiction is perpetually preoccupied with doppelgangers–doubles or evil twins....
-
Dance
Dance Review: NYCB Offers Polyphonia, For the Love of Duke, and Concerto DSCH
November 12, 2022Yet while these dancers retain their individuality, Ratmansky manages to make their movements seem of a...
-
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Giselle
November 11, 2022The cast for the opening night (Saturday, January 29) featured the deservedly popular Yuan Yuan Tan...
-
Blog-Dance
A Gala Celebration with San Francisco Ballet
November 11, 2022As usual for these events, Wednesday night’s audience came in their finest duds — men in...
-
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
November 11, 2022The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...
-
Games
Video Game Review: Dead Space 2
November 11, 2022For many years, Electronic Arts was seen by most as the “evil empire” of the video...
-
Movies
Movie Review: The Mechanic
November 9, 2022Jason Statham, the icy British actor famous for jacked-up action romps including The Transporter and Crank,...
-
Movies
Movie Review: The Rite
November 9, 2022The Rite is remarkably dull where its most obvious predecessor, The Exorcist, was sharp as a...
-
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
November 9, 2022Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
-
Blog-Dance
And There’s Prize Money!
November 9, 2022News flash — Dance makers need money! Oh, the big companies are on all the corporate...
-
After Image
Badlands and Lost Edens: The Photography of Robert Adams
November 9, 2022Adams recorded the ever-expanding suburban sprawl of the 1960s and 1970s, and his haunting, classically composed...
-
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 9, 2022These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
-
Movies
Movie Review: The Way Back
November 9, 2022The really good character work – and make no mistake, this is a good cast –...
-
After Image
A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
November 25, 2022There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...
-
Art
The Denver Art Museum’s New Galleries of American Indian Art
November 26, 2022Navajo “eyedazzler” rugs of the nineteenth century, in which brilliantly colored wools form intricate diamonds, are...
-
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 9, 2022These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
-
Blog-Video Games
The Ballot Box Beat Down – A Hard Corps look at DLC
November 15, 2022Here at the Metro City Reform Committee we take a look at the issues going on...
-
Art
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
November 27, 2022Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
-
Blog-Dance
And There’s Prize Money!
November 9, 2022News flash — Dance makers need money! Oh, the big companies are on all the corporate...
-
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
November 30, 2022The pieces in this collection are tight knots or loose koans—sweet little puzzles. Told with the...
-
Movies
Oscar Leadup – Ladies in Film: Female Agency and Pleasure in 2010 Movies
November 19, 2022Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech: behind every great man, there stands (or sits, ever...
-
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Not Your Average Romcoms!
November 7, 2022We like our romcoms quirky. None of this, please. Romantic comedy in the last few decades...
-
Movies
The Great Music Videos Valentine’s Edition: “Days Go By” by Dirty Vegas
November 15, 2022Happy arbitrary and consumerist holiday from CLR and The Fourth Wall! Richard Phillips’s album artwork is...
Top Posts & Pages
Trending
Contributors
