Movies & TV
Movie Review: A Dangerous Method
October 13, 2025However, what defines Cronenberg’s nearly 40-year long career is his obsession with, well, obsession. Whether getting...
Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Yakuza, #97
October 12, 2025Two exciting trends enlivened Hollywood in the mid-1970s. First, Frances Ford Coppola’s The Godfather reinvigorated the...
Video Games
Dark Souls VS. Skyrim – Part 1 – Time Crimes
October 12, 2025LAST TIME we were here, I said I wanted to keep talking about Skyrim, and so...
Theatre
One Man, Two Guvnors, Adelphi Theatre, London
October 12, 2025For this show is funny. I mean, it is really funny. Not the kind of funny...
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: Occupation and Resistance (Episodes 12 and 13)
October 12, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's first season finale- the two hour, two parter Occupation and Resistance
Dance
Smuin Ballet Swims in the Blue Ocean of Holiday Fun
October 12, 2025The ballet consists of two parts. The first half, “The Classical Christmas,” is devoted to traditional...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: The Stage On Screen
October 11, 2025As the holiday season builds to its peak, we movie watchers face a release pattern that...
Blog-Theater
Ross Noble and Friends, Cranleigh Arts Centre, England
October 11, 2025It showcased all of Noble’s best points: the delight in the ludicrous, the ideas tripping over...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
October 11, 2025For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Made, #98
October 11, 2025During the day, Bobby works construction. And at night, he’s the driver/bodyguard for his girlfriend Jesse...
Performing Arts
Broadway Review: Alicia Keys’ Stick Fly
October 9, 2025This setup abounds with comic potential, and Diamond wrings plenty of laughs out of the awkward...
Art & Design
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
October 9, 2025After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
Thrillers
May Day! May Day! It’s Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Tree
October 9, 2025Early press for The Wicker Tree has not been overwhelmingly good, but one might say it...
India
Book Review: The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
October 9, 2025The “cat’s table” is the place where the least important passengers on the ship are seated...
Blog-Video Games
An Early Resolution, and How the Stars Align.
October 9, 2025Hey there folks! Its been . . . a while since the Metro City Reform Committee...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker Continues the Tradition
October 9, 2025OK. I’ll admit it. I’m a total sap for Nutcracker. You’d think after all the years...
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: Within (Season 1, Episode 11)
October 9, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's Within, Season 1, Episode 11
Movies
Movie Review: New Year’s Eve
October 9, 2025If you've shamelessly dropped the dollars to hire a full cast of well-known stars, why not...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2011
October 8, 2025Our book reviewers select the best books of 2011.
Theatre
Theatre Review: Noel Coward’s Star Quality, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England
October 8, 2025There’s a feeling you get about ten minutes into a Noel Coward play. The lights have...
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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