Art
Denver’s Camera Obscura Gallery Closes
August 6, 2025In dramatic contrast to the wide-open, sleekly minimalist aesthetic of most modern art galleries, Camera Obscura’s...
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Movie Review: Thor
August 6, 2025Once upon a time in the New Mexico desert, there lived a brilliant young astrophysicist with...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Its Spring Season
August 6, 2025As anyone who has seen the New York City Ballet can attest, George Balanchine hardly stuck...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: The Little Mermaid
August 6, 2025Although described as being more closely aligned with the Andersen tale, this is an exposition more...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Portal 2
August 5, 2025Yes, Portal 2 is great, there are no two bones about it. If all you want...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle – Car (and Chase) Movies That Don’t Run On Diesel
August 5, 2025This week Fast Five - which, as its title rather subtly implies, is the fifth film...
Dance
Review: Boston Ballet’s Bella Figura
August 4, 2025When the curtain rises on The Second Detail, the stage looks leeched of color: the leotards...
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Sex, Choice and Video Games . . . on a Quantum level.
August 4, 2025I, along with most of the free world, have been playing Portal 2. Perhaps thinking 5th...
Best Books
What Is Best In Life? Not Conan 3D, Barring A Miracle
August 4, 2025Borne on the crest of the wind, I hear already the lamentation of women. Women whose...
Movies
Movie Review: Fast Five
August 4, 2025There are plenty of car chases, explosions, fistfights, and gunfights to hold the proceedings together, which...
Books
Book Review: Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire by Robin Waterfield
August 4, 2025It did not take long before most of the Diadochi were gripped by a lust for...
Movies
Movie Review: 13 Assassins
August 4, 2025His new film, 13 Assassins is certainly his most mature work to date, and with few...
Blog-Dance
San Francisco Ballet Announces 2012 Season
August 3, 2025As each ballet season draws to an end, the speculation about the next year's offerings begins....
Best Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Three Rings Of Circus Movie Mayhem!
August 3, 2025The circus is a complicated enterprise, and its symbolic value in storytelling has many faces. It...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Homefront
August 3, 2025What’s a publisher to do when faced with the fact that gamers across the world have...
Theatre
Theater Review: Catch Me If You Can
August 3, 2025Without question, the true stars of this musical are the gorgeous chorus girls who glide along...
Movies
An Interview with Writer/Director Julian Gilbey
August 1, 2025I like to think of myself sometimes as a bit of a Method director, so what...
Art & Design
Art Review: Health for Sale, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 1, 2025Designed for short-term use to promote public health or sell the latest "miracle" drug, medical posters...
Video Games
The Trap of Indoctrination in Gaming
August 1, 2025The committee’s been out of session lately. Unlike some almost government shut downs, this wasn’t due...
Movies
Movie Review: Scream 4
August 1, 2025Scream 4’s tagline “New decade, new rules” may be specious. The rules of surviving a slasher...
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...
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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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