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Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
October 23, 2026Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Thanksgiving Dinner Edition!
October 23, 2026In this edition of The Weekly Listicle, we take a moment to be thankful for our...
Art & Design
Art Review: Alessi: Ethical and Radical at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 22, 2026The Tea and Coffee Piazza sets, produced in limited editions of ninety-nine, with three artist’s proofs,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Fun Inc.: Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century by Tom Chatfield
October 22, 2026One element of the gaming industry that will surprise some readers is the billions of dollars...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Art
Vandalism in the Name of the Lord: Kathleen Folden and “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals”
October 22, 2026On October 6, 2010, Kathleen Folden, identified in the media as a 56-year-old truck driver from...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Nemesis by Philip Roth
October 21, 2026Weequahic has been particularly hard-hit by the summer’s polio epidemic. Bucky, stuck supervising his school playground’s...
Movies
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
October 21, 2026With the Potter books, J.K. Rowling fashioned one of the most intricately detailed fantasy lands in...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: A Science Ficsticle
October 21, 2026Color me unimpressed based on the trailers for Skyline. This week’s big release Skyline looks…well, it...
Movies
Movie Review: Unstoppable
October 21, 2026The story is just substantial enough to tie all the screeching, sparking train chases together. We...
Movies
Movie Review: Morning Glory
October 21, 2026Morning Glory is a film about morning people. I hate morning people. They’re chipper in the...
Horror
The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
October 20, 2026A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
October 20, 2026Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Heroes Who Suck
October 20, 2026Heroes don’t HAVE to be boring stand-ins for the audience (I’m looking at you, everyone who...
After Image
Christo in Colorado
October 20, 2026"Over the River" would consist of 5.9 miles of silver fabric draped like an intermittent canopy...
Poetry
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
October 19, 2026A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me by Jeff Dunham
October 19, 2026Jeff Dunham’s YouTube videos have been seen over 400 million times, his comedy DVDs have sold...
Movies
Movie Review: 127 Hours
October 18, 2026It’s these moments that comprise the film’s greater theme, that in his final (127) hours even...
Art
Art Review: Michelangelo Pistoletto Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 18, 2026Pistoletto first gained prominence in the world of art in the early 1960's with his Quadri...
Horror
TV Review: AMC’s “The Walking Dead” Shambles onto the Small Screen
October 18, 2026Last night, half of zombie aficionados across the world tuned in to Frank Darabont’s new zombie...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Movies & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Performing Arts
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
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