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Dance Review: New York City Ballet, ‘Balanchine Black & White’
September 12, 2025Though the hype surrounding the New York City Ballet's fall season has lately concerned a new...
Art
Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland
September 11, 2025Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Gears of War 3
September 11, 2025Perhaps it’s just me, but it always seemed like Cliff Bleszinski and Epic Games had something...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Moneyball
September 11, 2025Jonah Hill shows that he can do more than broad comedy. Although awkward and nervous, Brand...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: The List (Season 8, Episode 1)
September 11, 2025This is a recap/review of the eighth season premiere of NBC's The Office entitled The List...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Kicks Ass For The Lord
September 10, 2025In honor of the re-release of Red State, this Listicle looks at movies and television shows...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Changes Its Face
September 10, 2025In this Listicle, we look at some of the best and most notable "cast changes" in...
Dance
New Kid on the Smuin Ballet Block: Jared Hunt
September 10, 2025It is wonderful to be dancing in an ensemble again. The company is tremendously talented, and...
Music
San Francisco Opera: Heart of a Soldier
September 10, 2025For its world premiere of Heart of a Soldier at San Francisco Opera, the creators chose...
Television
Morning Recap — Doctor Who: The God Complex [Series 32, Episode 11]
September 8, 2025Hurrah! Things are looking up on Doctor Who. The problem of Amy and Rory’s passivity with...
Theatre
Theater Review: Follies, Starring Bernadette Peters
September 8, 2025For Stephen Sondheim's 1971 Follies, however, the Broadway revival creates the perfect situation to reflect on...
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The Ultimate Gaming Breakdown: Are Video Games Art?
September 8, 2025Not too long ago recent facts were revealed to the world pertaining to the beloved Mayor...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Drive
September 8, 2025Despite its holy-grail status in Hollywood, a clever script brimming with witty banter is not always...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
September 8, 2025Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
Movies
Movie Review: Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
September 8, 2025Although Larson’s first attempt at blue films seems not to take, he quickly becomes an Internet...
Movies
Movie Review: Red State
September 8, 2025Smith knew the targets he wanted to hit (and this film really does narrow the aim),...
Movies & TV
End of the Line: Entourage Shrugs It Out
September 7, 2025[Spoilers Ahead] In the comments for my first piece on Entourage, someone posed the question what’s...
Movies & TV
Morning Recap — Doctor Who: The Girl Who Waited [Series 32, Episode 10]
September 7, 2025Unfortunately for Amy Pond, the Doctor seems to have a regrettable tendency to always turn up...
Thrillers
True Blood Recap: Season 4 Bites Deep (But Doesn’t Suck)
September 7, 2025For those who have not been scared off by now, I think we could all use...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
September 7, 2025Filled with unsettling images and language, Alois Hotchnig’s newly translated collection is an uncomfortable journey, but...
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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