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The Office Recap: Fundraiser (Season 8, Episode 22)
November 23, 2025A recap/review of The Office: Fundraiser (Season 8, Episode 22)
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An Interview with San Francisco Ballet Soloist Clara Blanco
November 23, 2025But dancing a character both fulfills and exhausts you. After Artifact, I felt dead, but it...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Federal Hill, #79
November 22, 2025Writer-director Michael Corrente took the title and setting for his first movie from the Italian-American section...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: HHhH by Laurent Binet
November 22, 2025What results, however, is an awkward success story. Unseasonably dedicated to fact and accuracy, positively frightened...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Body and Soul’ (Season 8, Episode 18)
November 22, 2025This was the fifth-to-last episode, by my count. Tonight we had nightmare visions, erotic dreams, an...
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Horror
Blu-Ray/DVD Review: The Wicker Tree
November 22, 2025The rites themselves have changed in practice if not in spirit, and the movie rekindles enough...
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Dance
5 Questions with Choreographer Val Caniparoli (Part 2)
November 22, 2025It's always good to try and schedule time when the company is performing, as you get...
Movies
Movie Review: Chimpanzee
November 21, 2025In the mist-shrouded Ivory Coast jungle, all appears green and beautiful. The leafy trees shelter and...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Ghosts of the Past (Season 2, Episode 5)
November 21, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Ghosts of the Past (Season 2, Episode 5)
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “Far Away Places” (Season 5, Episode 6)
November 20, 2025In last night’s surreal episode of Mad Men, everybody was taking trips, with or without their...
Dance
Dance Review: Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Triangle of Squinches
November 20, 2025Act I of Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Triangle of Squinches plays out in front of a...
Music
Album Review: Dapayk & Padberg’s Sweet Nothings
November 20, 2025Bold, elegant and tender, with enough will towards experimentation to reward repeat listenings enormously this is...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Angry Andy (Season 8, Episode 21)
November 20, 2025A recap/review of The Office: Angry Andy (Season 8, Episode 21)
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Coming Home
November 20, 2025While it is ostensibly just an action vehicle for Stallone, First Blood is an honest portrayal...
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Video Games
The Massive Effect a Boss Makes
November 20, 2025End Errors: Game, Part Deux! Whoah! What was that, it’s almost feels like I skipped through...
Music
Yesterday is Today: The Pop of Jim Noir
November 20, 2025He makes pop, but to be clear this is a pop so smart and with such...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mafioso, #80
November 19, 2025“The Sicilians,” the agent said, “are very serious about what they do.” We see a lot...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘We Need the Eggs’ (Season 8, Episode 17)
November 19, 2025I don’t know if others will agree, but I really, really liked this one. Funny, fast-paced,...
Video Games
The Dialogue Tree Welcomes a New Climber!
November 19, 2025With that done, I now must ask Laura to introduce herself by revealing something embarrassing. To...
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Art
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 19, 2025The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
History
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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