Movies
Movie Review: The Hangover Part II
August 11, 2025One common complaint I've read is that The Hangover Part II is beat-by-beat the same movie...
Movies
Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
August 11, 2025Here we are, leading into blockbuster season 2011, and the best thing one can say about...
Movies & TV
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: The CW
August 11, 2025And so we come to the end of our week long journey through the fall schedule...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: A Johnny Depp-sticle!
August 11, 2025Yep, this is still happening. Still. When I saw the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie,...
Blog-Theater
Target Margin Theater’s The Tempest
August 11, 2025The production focuses its energies on exposing its illusion-making apparatuses to such an extent that the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Assuming Direct Control!
August 10, 2025MUHUAHAHAHA I have assumed control over your regularly scheduled Listicle! There is nothing wrong with your...
Movies & TV
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: CBS
August 10, 2025The nation’s most watched network boasting television’s number one comedy and drama, CBS has fewer new...
Movies & TV
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: FOX
August 10, 2025FOX tends to be more innovative than its three network counterparts, except for this year when...
Movies & TV
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: NBC
August 10, 2025The weakest of the major networks, NBC is the first of the four to release their...
Movies & TV
The 2011-2012 Fall Schedule: ABC
August 9, 2025It occurred to me while writing this that the only show I watched last season on...
Art
Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum
August 9, 2025The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and...
Phobias
Insecurity Deposits: Catching Up With Hammer’s The Resident
August 9, 2025The Resident is nicely paced, moodily presented, eerily scored and based upon a very creepy idea....
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee
August 9, 2025The title refers to the new female embodiment aspired to by the main character Anjali Bose...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Everything Must Go
August 7, 2025This is an interesting movie to come out at the tail end of Will Ferrell's spin...
Movies
Movie Review: Bridesmaids
August 7, 2025The rivalry between Annie and Helen escalates into several delightfully over the top disasters, including a...
Art & Design
Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
August 7, 2025While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...
Movies
Lies, LIES! Never Trust Nothing, Especially A “Last” Sequel
August 7, 2025After going to the trouble of naming the fourth installment of the series THE Final Destination,...
After Image
Badlands Revisited
August 7, 2025Badlands was filmed on location in southern Colorado, and recently I finally made it to Pueblo,...
Music
Welcome to When You See Sparks, CLR’s New Music Blog
August 7, 2025We are pleased to announce the start of CLR’s new music blog. Ben Caro, a Los...
Music
The Emotional Significance of Modulation in The Secret Garden
August 7, 2025aka What Happens When You Give a Theatre Kid a B.A. in Music One day I...
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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