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The Weekly Listicle: stoners, slackers, and shenanigans, oh my!
August 1, 2025Our very own Dan Fields reviewed Your Highness last weekend. Dan and most other critics and...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: Six for Two
August 1, 2025Chic, black Sandra Woodall costumes and the predominately white lighting plan by David Finn serve to...
Movies & TV
2011: Armageddon Comes Early To Hopeless Film Geeks
July 31, 2025Before the year is out, we may see all the weirdest and most controversial filmmakers of...
Dance
Review: Dance Under the Influence at MAD
July 31, 2025Last month, in the second performance of the series, the relationship between the two art forms...
Movies
ActionFest 2011 Wrap-Up
July 31, 2025ActionFest: The Film Festival with a Body Count! Even though it’s only in its second year...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X
July 31, 2025X’s short 21 chapters of informal prose mix the personal-poignant and social-pathetic. They illuminate the pathology...
Movies
Movie Review: Your Highness
July 30, 2025If only the makers of the film would publish something -- perhaps as a DVD extra...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Hanna
July 30, 2025Hanna is a force to be reckoned with, and she doesn’t really have an equal, even...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Killzone 3
July 30, 2025The other thing a war-porn game must deliver is a satisfying experience of fictional warfighting. Thankfully,...
Movies
An Interview with Michael Jai White
July 30, 2025Michael Jai White in a publicity still for Never Back Down 2 Michael Jai White has...
Movies
Movie Review: Insidious
July 30, 2025Remember how the first Saw was actually a creative, mind-bending scarefest? The series’ creators Leigh Whannell...
Movies
A Report from the Red State Tour
July 29, 2025A simple, right to the point poster announces a stark change in material. Filmmaker Kevin Smith...
Theatre
Playwright in Profile: Susan Tenneriello
July 29, 2025Tenneriello's first encounter with theatrical experimentation came from her mother who used to perform impersonations after...
Movies
Movie Review: Hop
July 29, 2025Perhaps the best way to take Hop is as an illustration of why Easter movies never...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle – Evil Houses, Evil Locations…Simply Evil
July 29, 2025Welcome to another entry in the Fourth Wall Weekly Listicle, a weekly tour through the cinematic...
Art
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 28, 2025Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
Sports
Book Review: In the Blink of an Eye by Michael Waltrip
July 28, 2025On the last lap, Earnhardt crashed, dying shortly thereafter. The race winner, Michael Waltrip, was celebrating...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Weekly Listicle: Keeping It Simple With A ROBO-POCALYPSE!
July 28, 2025This week, the big opener of note is the outrageous fantasy action epic Sucker Punch, which...
Dance
Review: Mark Morris Dance Group
July 28, 2025In the last section of Mark Morris' Festival Dance, one dancer picks up his partner and...
Movies
Movie Review: Sucker Punch
July 27, 2025Sucker Punch strove to be what the trailers made it out to be: a comic-book-influenced tale...
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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