Television
The Weekly Listicle: If We Nominated the Nominees (Emmys Edition)
August 22, 2025As easy as it is to knock television, we probably are living in one of the...
Art
Stacey Steers’ Night Hunter
August 20, 2025Here, Gish finds herself amidst a riot of Freudian imagery – snakes, earthworms, and phallic blades...
Movies & TV
Damages- Season 4 Comes to DIRECTV on July 13
August 20, 2025Opening credits to Season 1 of DIRECTV’s Damages On July 13 at 10 p.m. EST, the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr
August 20, 2025Except for a (thankfully) brief, unscientific use of Google metrics, Orr beautifully shares instances of why...
Video Games
The Defense for Regeneration (and Canada).
August 20, 2025LAST TIME an the Metro City Reform Committee – SOME STUFF HAPPENED. Then a Recess was...
Art
Art Review: Marvelous Mud at the Denver Art Museum
August 20, 2025Marajó is a vast island lying at the mouth of the Amazon, much of which is...
Movies
Movie Review: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
August 20, 2025Although overall less offensive to one’s intelligence, this new movie is populated by the same mistakes...
Mystery
In Case You Missed… Christopher Smith’s Black Death
August 20, 2025Most movies like Black Death exploit the historical context to take shots at organized religion with...
Books
Book Review: Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
August 19, 2025But wherever it originated, the word conjures up an instant picture of young people in cheap...
Graphic Novels
Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker
August 19, 2025Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the...
Music
Turntable.fm Plays Well With Others
August 19, 2025When a music playing site catches the eye of the law, you know it has to...
Dance
Dance Review: The Royal Danish Ballet in New York
August 19, 2025As the New York City Ballet has become a steward of ballets by Jerome Robbins and...
Music
Concert Review: The Mountain Goats Celebrate Survival and Success in L.A.
August 18, 2025It’s good to be young, but let’s not kid ourselves It’s better to pass on...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Transformers – Dark of the Moon
August 18, 2025So High Moon, obviously full of people that care, did the best they could with what...
Movies
Movie Review: Bad Teacher
August 18, 2025At the same time, it is refreshing to see that someone can still write a story...
Movies & TV
In Memoriam: The Five Best Shows Cancelled by Comedy Central
August 18, 2025Norm Macdonald, formerly of Sports Show With Norm Macdonald Yesterday, Comedy Central announced its cancellation of...
Movies
Movie Review: Cars 2
August 17, 2025If there’s one thing Pixar always does right, it’s the animation itself. Cars 2 is no...
Dance
Dance Review: American Ballet Theatre’s Coppélia
August 17, 2025Osipova dances on a similarly grand scale: her buoyant leaps seem disproportionately large for her small...
Blog-Dance
San Francisco Ballet — Promotions & New Company Members
August 17, 2025San Francisco Ballet has announced four company promotions, two new company members, and six new apprentices...
Movies & TV
The Weekly Listicle: What’s The Deal With…?
August 17, 2025Yes, I know it’s obvious. In honor of Louie returning to FX tonight, Sean Penn announcing...
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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