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Movie Review: How Do You Know
July 4, 2025Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd do not always make great movies, but when given the chance...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: The 10 Best Videogame Movies AREN’T Based On Videogames
July 4, 2025So where exactly are the good videogame movies? They’re everywhere, if you know where to look....
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Movie Review: TRON: Legacy
July 3, 2025Disney’s sequel is an immense, vividly hued carnival for the eyes. What it lacks in smart...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
July 3, 2025For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Winter flicks to make you shiver!
July 3, 2025People watch movies for all kinds of reasons. We watch them to laugh, to jump, to...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
July 3, 2025By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Short Stories
A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
July 2, 2025Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
Movies
Movie Review: The Tourist
July 2, 2025The Tourist is the kind of cinematic perfection that doesn’t get lauded too often. It’s too...
Performing Arts
Tom Russell: American Primitive Man
July 2, 2025Every Tom Russell song has something to say about the human heart. In each voice he...
Movies
Movie Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
July 2, 2025Narnia is a world in which children’s voices are heard, in which the young acquire agency...
Games
Video Game Review: Disney’s Epic Mickey
July 1, 2025In a delightful introduction, Mickey sneaks into the magical hobbyshop of the wizard from Fantasia, Yen...
Dance
Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Offers Anointed, The Hunt, Cry and Revelations
July 1, 2025Luckily, Robert Battle needs no anointing. His choreography speaks for itself. In the company premiere of...
Movies
Movie Review: I Love You Phillip Morris
July 1, 2025The rest of the movie follows their dysfunctional love story through prison sentences, Corvettes, illnesses, mansions,...
Movies
Movie Review: Black Swan
July 1, 2025Darren Aronofsky’s films (which include Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler) roil with striking, horrific...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
June 29, 2025Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
Art
Art Review: John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 29, 2025There is a big fuss about Pure Beauty, John Baldessari’s retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of...
Dance
Book Review: Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
June 29, 2025Homans' concluding remarks, cogent and powerfully expressed like the rest of Apollo's Angels, are going to...
Performing Arts
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
June 29, 2025Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
Movies
Movie Review: Tangled
June 29, 2025Tangled isn’t too cool for school, it’s just really cool, and once the film stops apologizing...
Theatre
Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
June 29, 2025Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
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
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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