Dance
Golden West College Professional Dance Invitational
July 16, 2025Now in its sixth year, the Golden West weekend offers Southern California audiences the opportunity to...
Movies
The Great Music Videos Valentine’s Edition: “Days Go By” by Dirty Vegas
July 16, 2025Happy arbitrary and consumerist holiday from CLR and The Fourth Wall! Richard Phillips’s album artwork is...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: Giselle Redux
July 16, 2025Many dance companies would kill for the depth of talent present at San Francisco Ballet. Take,...
Movies
Movie Review: Gnomeo and Juliet
July 16, 2025Gnomeo and Juliet seems like a terrible idea. Due to smart writing and great character actors,...
Video Games
“I’ll Buy That For A Dollar!” – A Public Service
July 15, 2025Anyway, here at the Metro City Reform Committee, we're familiar with hard times, we know that...
Humor
The Weekly Listicle: No, We CAN’T Feel The Love Tonight!
July 15, 2025This week, Julia Rhodes and I (Dan Fields) recall a bygone era, when entertainment for kids...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet
July 15, 2025I never tire of seeing After the Rain, however, and doubt that I will. This ballet,...
Blog-Video Games
The Metro City Reform Committee: Monday Nights at the Giant Ape Fights!
July 15, 2025But something seems wrong in gamingdom. The boss battle and especially the LAST boss battle to...
Dance
Review: Parsons Dance at the Joyce
July 13, 2025Name a piece "Bachiana" and you invite comparison to two twentieth-century greats: Fokine's Chopiniana, with its...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
July 13, 2025This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: RAkU, Symphonic Variations and Symphony in C
July 13, 2025A new Possokhov ballet is something SFB audiences have come to relish, and RAkU did not...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Bionic Commando Rearmed 2
July 13, 2025Bit of a disclaimer: the original Bionic Commando on the NES was the favorite game of...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Giselle
July 13, 2025The cast for the opening night (Saturday, January 29) featured the deservedly popular Yuan Yuan Tan...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle is Seeing Double!
July 13, 2025The Roommate‘s Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester. Fiction is perpetually preoccupied with doppelgangers–doubles or evil twins....
Dance
Dance Review: NYCB Offers Polyphonia, For the Love of Duke, and Concerto DSCH
July 13, 2025Yet while these dancers retain their individuality, Ratmansky manages to make their movements seem of a...
Dance
A Gala Celebration with San Francisco Ballet
July 13, 2025As usual for these events, Wednesday night’s audience came in their finest duds — men in...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
July 12, 2025The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...
Movies
Movie Review: The Rite
July 12, 2025The Rite is remarkably dull where its most obvious predecessor, The Exorcist, was sharp as a...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dead Space 2
July 12, 2025For many years, Electronic Arts was seen by most as the “evil empire” of the video...
Blog-Dance
And There’s Prize Money!
July 12, 2025News flash — Dance makers need money! Oh, the big companies are on all the corporate...
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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