Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “Tea Leaves” (Season 5, Episode 3)
November 14, 2025This season of Mad Men is all about power - who has it, who doesn't, who...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Blowing the Whistle’ (Season 8, Episode 15)
November 14, 2025Anyway, we open at the airport, where a young military family – mom, kid, dad covered...
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Art & Design
John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
November 14, 2025Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
Movies
Movie Review: Wrath of the Titans
November 14, 2025As a swords-and-sandals “epic,” a term I use very loosely, Wrath begs comparison to this year's...
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Reflections + My Lucky Day (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2)
November 14, 2025A recap/review of The Killing- Reflections and My Lucky Day (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2)
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Binary Domain
November 13, 2025Binary Domain portrays such a future; a world in which technological development has become so advanced...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Will Find Weaker Listicles And Attack
November 13, 2025A Listicle Acknowledging Bullies In Movies and TV
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet Offers Raymonda Act III, RAkU and Guide to Strange Places
November 13, 2025In a season peppered with contemporary world premieres and dramatic works, it is easy to forget...
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Movies
Movie Review: Mirror Mirror
November 13, 2025With Mirror Mirror, Singh makes a drastic departure from the dark, brooding territory covered in his...
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Movies & TV
Community Recap: Digital Exploration of Interior Design (Season 3, Episode 13)
November 13, 2025One can’t fault Community or NBC from seeking a large sponsor like Subway in their time...
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Art
The Forgotten Sculpture of John B. Flannagan
November 12, 2025His sculptures, like his wonderful Elephant of 1929-1930, or his Chimpanzee of 1928, were often carved...
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Art
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 12, 2025Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Dillinger, #83
November 11, 2025Dillinger is a B-movie and doesn’t attempt to be more than that. There is not a...
Performing Arts
NY Philharmonic’s Modern Beethoven Festival Concludes
November 11, 2025There’s nothing worse than a complacent performance of a Beethoven symphony. Being such a staple of...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “A Little Kiss” (Season 5 Premiere)
November 11, 2025He’s back. Photo credit Michael Yarish/AMC It’s been almost a year and a half since the...
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Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Presents The Fifth Season, Symphonic Dances and Glass Pieces
November 11, 2025Frances Chung is as resilient as bundled cable. Davit Karapetyan partners her with genteel correctness. They...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Raid: Redemption
November 11, 2025Written and directed by Gareth Evans, The Raid: Redemption is without question one of the most...
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Movies
Alcatraz Recap: Garrett Stillman and Tommy Madsen (Episodes 12 and 13)
November 11, 2025A recap/review of Alcatraz' Garrett Stillman and Tommy Madsen- Season 1, Episodes 12 and 13
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Japan
Blu-Ray Review – Battle Royale: The Complete Collection
November 11, 2025Quentin Tarantino proclaims ”My favorite movie of the last 20 years! I wish I had made...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott
November 10, 2025Sketching the parameters of Baggott’s palimpsestic narrative is tricky. Briefly put, the backstory of the novel...
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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