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Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum
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Book Review: The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex: What’s Wrong With Modern Movies? by Mark Kermode
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Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 17, 2025In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
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Movie Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
October 16, 2025Most of the actual “spy stuff” that goes on is hidden even from the audience, and...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Bound, #95
October 16, 2025Bound is distinct from the 99 other movies on this list. For starters, it’s the only...
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Dark Souls VS. Skyrim – Part 3 – Space is the Place
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Movie Review: The Devil Inside
October 16, 2025With a jarringly abrupt termination that is less a conclusion than an obnoxious cliffhanger, we’re given...
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Art Review: Two Chinese Exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum
October 15, 2025This was a world in which the color of the glass finial on one’s hat indicated...
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West of Center: Art and the Countercultural Experiment in America, 1965 -1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
October 15, 2025Earnest rather than ironic, unashamedly idealistic, unafraid of appearing amateurish and haphazard, many of the contents...
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Book Review: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
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Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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Think Of The Children! Family Films Rule 2011
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Who’s Laughing Now? – Film and TV Comedy in 2011
October 14, 2025And so the clock has run out on 2011. We had some major comedy misfires on...
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Darks Souls VS. Skyrim – Part 2 – On Space
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A Look Back at 2011: Superhero Films Edition
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Doctor Who Recap: ‘The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe’ – Christmas Special 2011
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Dance Review: The Nutcracker, English National Ballet at The Coliseum, London
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Book Review: The Hillary Effect by Taylor Marsh
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
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Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
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George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
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Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
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Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
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Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
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The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
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Einstein in Japan
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