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Dissatisfying Difficulty in the Digital Domain!
August 27, 2025This is going to be a quick one folks. Partially because A) I’d like to see...
Music
Baloji: Nowhere and Everywhere
August 27, 2025“Over there I don’t feel totally Conogolese, and here, I don’t particularly feel Belgian,” says Baloji,...
Movies
Movie Review: Captain America: The First Avenger
August 26, 2025For a movie about super soldiers, world domination, and rogue Nazi occultists, it packs surprisingly little...
Movies & TV
Entourage, More Like Blah-ntourage: A Look Back At the HBO Series
August 26, 2025This Sunday, HBO’s long-running series Entourage starts its eighth and final season (following a new episode...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: The Dark Side of the [Holly]Wood
August 26, 2025Hollywood, California. Tinseltown. The City of Dreams. Land of the Giant Sign. The Big H. Where...
Dance
Dance in the Desert Festival: 3 Questions with Choreographer/Dancer Bernard Gaddis
August 26, 2025The Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater, a popular company scheduled to perform the weekend of July...
Art
Beauty & Bounty: American Art in the Age of Exploration, Seattle Art Museum
August 25, 2025The highlight of the gallery would have to be the three paintings by lesser-known artist Martin...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How I Lost the War by Filippo Bologna
August 25, 2025Yet in Federico’s town, pools are pumped and wells are closed. They remove centuries old trees...
Video Games
City Tuesday and Chris Zukowski – An Interview with an Independent
August 23, 2025In our ongoing mission to define the facets that make gaming the unique art form it...
Movies
Movie Review: Winnie the Pooh
August 23, 2025It would not be the first time Disney has reinvented the Hundred Acre Wood for a...
Dance
Dance in the Desert Festival: 5 Questions with Choreographer Nannette Brodie
August 23, 2025In between their annual festival appearances, the Brodie company, like most of the other Festival participants,...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Ms. Splosion Man
August 23, 2025‘Splosion Man was a return to form. Of the glory days where the platformer was king...
Movies
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
August 23, 2025A palpable glee wafted through the theater as cameras flashed and 3D glasses shaped like Potter’s...
Books
Trailer Watch: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo
August 23, 2025Martin Scorsese, Hollywood titan, enjoys a special reputation for directing violent, foul-mouthed crime flicks. Admittedly, he...
Books
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
August 23, 2025All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
Movies
Best And Worst Movies Of 2011, Part 1
August 23, 2025We the critics of the Fourth Wall - Julia Rhodes, Brett Davinger, and myself - devote...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Horrible Bosses
August 23, 2025The main thing holding this movie back from greatness is a persistent reluctance to probe the...
Theatre
Jason Nahum: Never Playing It Safe
August 22, 2025Jason Nahum, an up and coming actor of considerable talent, opens up about his recent foray...
Games
Video Game Review: Shadows of the Damned
August 22, 2025So despite its simplicity and despite its vulgarity, Shadows of the Damned could prove important. Here...
Video Games
Batman, Auteurism and Supreme Court Decisions! Oh My!
August 22, 2025Events are brewing in the world of gaming dear readers. Big events. Sure, I suppose that’s...
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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