Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Television
Vegas Recap: Pilot Episode
November 9, 2024And…I’ll be honest. Of the two new shows I’m recapping, at this point I actually like...
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Art
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
November 9, 2024To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
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Movies
Movie Review: Looper
November 9, 2024With Looper, Johnson takes on science-fiction, but in his own signature approach that comes at the...
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Sports
Game of the Week: Penn State vs Illinois — The View from England
November 9, 2024Sanctions are appropriate because there is a potential worry that the culture of Penn State football...
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Television
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 4
November 8, 2024This is a special day for Malcolm, a sort of homecoming. He’s preparing a coup against...
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Movies & TV
Doctor Who Recap: ‘The Angels Take Manhattan’ (Season 33/Series 7, Episode 5)
November 8, 2024Our gumshoe comes face to face with his older self and then runs for the roof...
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Music
Album review: Delilah’s From The Roots Up
November 8, 2024Probably the most pleasant piece of difficult listening ever, it slightly reminds me of early Tori...
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Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: No Quarter (Season 1, Episode 3)
November 8, 2024A recap/review of Revolution- No Quarter (Season 1, Episode 3)
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Movies & TV
The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Protect and Serve’ (Season 1, Episode 3)
November 7, 2024As in previous weeks, the “mob” part continues to be more compelling than the “doctor” part....
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘Money Plays’ (Season 1, Episode 2)
November 7, 2024In its second week, Cowboys vs. Gangsters!, aka Vegas, seems to be finding its feet.
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Andy’s Ancestry (Season 9, Episode 3)
November 7, 2024A recap/review of The Office: Andy's Ancestry (Season 9, Episode 3)
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Drunken Angel, #56
November 7, 2024This one, we know, is a tough sell. Drunken Angel is a 60-plus-year-old, black-and-white, subtitled Japanese...
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Movies
Movie Review: Pitch Perfect
November 7, 2024In Pitch Perfect, nobody’s more than The Fat One, The Sexy One, The Dumb One, The...
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Dance
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Speaks Ballet In a Dialect All Its Own
November 6, 2024Appearing at the Cullen Theater in Houston’s Wortham Center on September 29, the small but sturdy...
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Dance
9 Questions with Choreographer Adam Hougland
November 6, 2024Smuin Ballet, as part of its opening program for the 2012–2013 season, is presenting the West...
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Movies
Halloween Home Video #1: Joe Dante’s The Hole
November 6, 2024Halloween Home Video (2012 edition) is your guide to the unsung scare flicks, thrill pics, and...
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Movies & TV
Revolution: The Plague Dogs (Season 1, Episode 4)
November 6, 2024A recap/review of Revolution: The Plague Dogs Season 1, Episode 4
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Borderlands 2
November 5, 2024At some point, perhaps in the middle of a gun battle against bandits protected by shields...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘All That Glitters’ (Season 1, Episode 3)
November 5, 2024Three weeks in, I’ll admit that Vegas is growing on me, even though tonight it displayed...
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Movies & TV
The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Change of Heart’ (Season 1, Episode 4)
November 5, 2024We end with Moretti planning his triumphant return to Chicago, but we’ll have to wait to...
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Art
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
November 27, 2024But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Lady of the Lake’ (Season 2, Episode 9)
December 11, 2024That which will be given to Freya must be stolen from Arthur, and so Merlin goes...
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Television
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Gliding Over All’ (Season 5, Episode 8)
November 18, 2024Two montages in one episode, guys! This one is set, adorably, to “Crystal Blue Persuasion” by...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Last Dragonlord’ (Season 2, Episode 13)
December 4, 2024The longer this series goes on, the more likely it seems that someone might raise a...
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Religion
True Blood Recap: Season 5 Raises The Stakes
November 19, 2024True Blood has tightened up considerably since the meandering adventures of Season 4, despite the fact...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Sweet Dreams’ (Season 2, Episode 10)
December 8, 2024The rulers in question are converging on Camelot for a peace conference of the kind I...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Atlantic City, #68
December 8, 2024Lou was one tough Atlantic City gangster in his time. Says he knew Al Capone, Lucky...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Sins of the Father’ (Season 2, Episode 8)
December 11, 2024Though as the mysterious knight’s identity is revealed, it turns out that the gracious Sir is...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Layer Cake, #62
November 21, 2024The movie’s title refers to the various strata of the chaotically violent, multibillion dollar world of...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
November 20, 2024As befits a former poet, Hughes’s writing is economical yet stylish, atmospheric without being fussy. And...
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