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Blog-Theater
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
April 29, 2022It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...
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Great Britain
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 5
April 29, 2022Of course we can’t know what goes on in the writers’ rooms, but combining Martin’s hand-turned...
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Movies
Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom
April 29, 2022These off-realities of Wes Anderson's movies also enable him to create gorgeous works, and Moonrise Kingdom...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
April 29, 2022A recap/review of The Killing Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
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Blog-Dance
Dance to the Music: National Youth Orchestras of Chile
April 29, 2022My father, Hugo Domínguez, had been Hen’s assistant, and one day they were walking in a...
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Blog-Dance
Claiming Cranko’s Shrewd Choreography: An Interview with Andreza Randisek and Rodrigo Guzmán
April 29, 2022This ballet is so hard! It will never go perfectly no matter how much you rehearse....
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ Here
April 29, 2022This is the music of firepits and families, and tells the story of the everyman trudging...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “Commissions and Fees” (Season 5, Episode 12)
April 28, 2022Well. Did you see that coming? I suppose I did, but it was still a stunner...
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Art
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
April 28, 2022The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Analyze This, #73
April 28, 2022The film succeeds because of strong performances by its two stars. Veteran comic actor Billy Crystal...
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Movies
Movie Review: Prometheus
April 28, 2022Early in the film, we meet Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Dr. Charlie Holloway (Logan...
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Movies
Trailer Watch: Django Unchained
April 27, 2022After countless musical and stylistic hints in films like Kill Bill and em>Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino...
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Games
Video Game Review: Diablo III
April 27, 2022Herein dwells the problem. The treatment of your combatants as mere faceless fodder makes gameplay as...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 6
April 27, 2022You wonder if you’re hallucinating the whiff of gender politics until Nicola turns up. I love...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
April 27, 2022A 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 26, 2022You know what’s good about Merlin? (No, not that, we’re leaving that ‘til the second paragraph,...
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Humor
Trailer Watch: Wreck-It Ralph
April 26, 2022What sounds funnier: a genre-hopping quest across the video game spectrum by a generic galoot drawn...
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Blog-Theater
The Cunning Little Vixen, Live-streamed from Glyndebourne Opera House
April 26, 2022It has not been an altogether popular production, not least with the huffy Glyndebourne reactionaries who...
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Movies
Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed
April 26, 2022Safety Not Guaranteed is a movie that creeps up on you, in a very friendly and...
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Blog-Music
EP Review: Sara Bareilles’ Once Upon Another Time
April 25, 2022Opening with such an incredibly slow track, melodic but free of refrain and rambling, is a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 25, 2022But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 15, 2022That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 12, 2022So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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Blog-Video Games
The Finale Solution – Three of Them, Actually.
May 11, 2022End Errors: Game, Postscript For the last month or so, I’ve been talking about how terrible...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
May 15, 2022Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 14, 2022Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Everybody Dies’ (Season 8, Episode 22 – Series Finale)
May 4, 2022And now to the issues fans will no doubt be debating for ages to come: Did...
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Nature
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 15, 2022The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 22, 2022At first glance it seems absolutely obvious what is going on here: to whit, some pretty...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Lancelot and Guinevere’ (Season 2, Episode 4)
April 23, 2022One of the real points of interest in Merlin is watching the way the show takes...
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