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The Office Recap: After Hours (Season 8, Episode 16)
November 1, 2025A recap/review of The Office Season 8, Episode 16- After Hours
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Lucky Number Slevin, #88
November 1, 2025The pacing is energizing and the dialogue at times is superb, even when it has little...
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Thrillers
The Walking Dead Recap: “Triggerfinger” (Season 2, Episode 9)
November 1, 2025Hershel gets a taste of the real world. Photo credit Gene Page/AMC. Where we left off...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Man of the House’ (Season 8, Episode 13)
November 1, 2025Joe is now turning bright yellow, indicating liver failure, as the team bickers over competing diagnoses...
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Dance
This Sweet Nothing Reimagines Nijinsky’s Afternoon of a Faun
October 31, 2025Her duet with Giles, in which both dancers use stilts to place themselves on the same...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Considers the Musical Biopic
October 31, 2025With the recent death of Whitney Houston, it’s only a matter of time before we hear...
Movies & TV
Alcatraz Recap: Johnny McKee (Season 1, Episode 7)
October 31, 2025Recap/review of Alcatraz Season 1, Episode 7 - Johnny McKee
Movies
Movie Review: This Means War
October 31, 2025Two CIA agents, FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy), who are both dashingly handsome and...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Secret World of Arrietty
October 30, 2025Studio Ghibli, the company responsible for such well-loved animated pictures as Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
October 30, 2025Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...
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Blog-Theater
Less Than Kind by Terence Rattigan: Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England.
October 30, 2025It’s Rattigan’s attempt to take the basic Hamlet situation and write a play which is both...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Tallahassee (Season 8, Episode 15)
October 30, 2025A recap/review of The Office: Tallahasse (Season 8, Epsiode 15)
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Video Games
Video Game Review: NeverDead
October 30, 2025The misused and undercooked immortality concept could have been much more than the result, but it’s...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Prizzi’s Honor, #89
October 29, 2025It makes our Top 100 because of its cast. But of all the movies portraying Italian-American...
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Movies & TV
Alcatraz Recap: Paxton Petty (Season 1, Episode 6)
October 29, 2025A recap/review of Alcatraz- Paxton Petty (Season 1, Episode 6)
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Dance
Dance Review: NYCB Offers Wheeldon’s Les Carillons and DGV
October 29, 2025The ability to enjoy DGV seems to me largely dependent on how irritating one finds Michael...
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Horror
The Walking Dead Recap: “Nebraska” (Season 2, Episode 8)
October 29, 2025The Walking Dead resurrected last night for the second half of its much-bemoaned second season. (I’m...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Chase’ (Season 8, Episode 12)
October 28, 2025There’s an elegiac tone about tonight’s broadcast, the first episode to air since it was announced...
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Movies & TV
The Weekly Listicle: The CIA Goes to the Movies
October 28, 2025That all changed when we were introduced to Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) in The Bourne Identity....
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Art & Design
Art Review: Van Gogh Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 28, 2025Indeed, if you can manage it in the crowded museum galleries, select a painting, perhaps Wheatfield...
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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