Theatre
Theater Review: Good People Starring Frances McDormand
July 22, 2025McDormand ‘s stellar performance captures the complexity of her character by combining swift comic timing with...
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A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
July 21, 2025Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Offers Theme and Variations, Winter Dreams and TRIO
July 21, 2025Theme and Variations is a textbook ballet, showcasing the best of Balanchine’s Russian past while offering...
Movies
Oscar Wager 2011
July 21, 2025We at the Fourth Wall have been throwing Oscar Buzz at you throughout the fall and...
Movies
Oscars 2011: And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
July 21, 2025Ms. Kunis brought it–and we spent the whole night wondering if we’d see more of her...
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Oscars 2011: A Beaten Critic Speaks
July 19, 2025Congratulations to Julia Rhodes for her excellent Oscar picks, which leveled my own, 15 to 9....
Dance
Interview with ASFB’s William Cannon
July 19, 2025I recently had a chance to talk with dancer William Cannon of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet,...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Drive Angry
July 19, 2025Taking into account all the casual profanity, copious T&A, comic book violence, awesome cars and impossibly...
Movies
Movie Review: Unknown
July 19, 2025Liam Neeson stars as Dr. Martin Harris, who is in Berlin with his wife (January Jones)...
Movies
Oscar Leadup – Ladies in Film: Female Agency and Pleasure in 2010 Movies
July 19, 2025Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech: behind every great man, there stands (or sits, ever...
Music
Opera Review: Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London
July 19, 2025Anna Nicole zipped herself up in a bodybag, surrounded by a crowd of camera-headed creatures which...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Stacking
July 19, 2025Set against the background of the Industrial Revolution, Stacking puts players in the role of Charlie...
Video Games
The Ballot Box Beat Down – A Hard Corps look at DLC
July 18, 2025Here at the Metro City Reform Committee we take a look at the issues going on...
Dance
Company C Contemporary Ballet: Pulse, Appalachia Waltz, Ominous Rumblings of Discontent, Indoor Fireworks
July 18, 2025The most anticipated was the world premiere of Indoor Fireworks set to music by New Wave...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Justice For Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
July 18, 2025Dworkin believes firmly in “cooperative” interpretation, reinforcing ethical precepts with insights from history, literature and philosophy...
Psychology
Valentine’s Day Fallout, Chapter Two: Love Most Peculiar in My Dog Tulip
July 18, 2025It is difficult to describe the feeling that My Dog Tulip leaves in one's heart once...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Marvel Versus Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
July 17, 2025Narrative in games like this is a rather inconsequential thing, and perhaps fighting game plots are...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
July 17, 2025The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity
July 17, 2025Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole...
Art & Design
New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
July 17, 2025In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
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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