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Terra Nova Recap: Genesis (Season 1, Episodes 1 + 2)
September 13, 2025A recap/review of the first episode of FOX's Terra Nova.
Art
Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA
September 12, 2025De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe...
Books
Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
September 12, 2025Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
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Smuin Ballet Kicks Off Its 2011-2012 Season
September 12, 2025The spotlight for this season opener is the world premiere of Dear Miss Cline by Choreographer-in-Residence...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
September 12, 2025In a neat reversal of the Reynard myth, the students at a school that molds young...
Movies & TV
Doctor Who Recap: ‘Closing Time’ (Season 32, Episode 12)
September 12, 2025Having left Amy and Rory to indulge in some domestic bliss, we no longer have to...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet, ‘Balanchine Black & White’
September 12, 2025Though the hype surrounding the New York City Ballet's fall season has lately concerned a new...
After Image
Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland
September 11, 2025Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Gears of War 3
September 11, 2025Perhaps it’s just me, but it always seemed like Cliff Bleszinski and Epic Games had something...
Movies
Movie Review: Moneyball
September 11, 2025Jonah Hill shows that he can do more than broad comedy. Although awkward and nervous, Brand...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: The List (Season 8, Episode 1)
September 11, 2025This is a recap/review of the eighth season premiere of NBC's The Office entitled The List...
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The Weekly Listicle: Kicks Ass For The Lord
September 10, 2025In honor of the re-release of Red State, this Listicle looks at movies and television shows...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Changes Its Face
September 10, 2025In this Listicle, we look at some of the best and most notable "cast changes" in...
Dance
New Kid on the Smuin Ballet Block: Jared Hunt
September 10, 2025It is wonderful to be dancing in an ensemble again. The company is tremendously talented, and...
Music
San Francisco Opera: Heart of a Soldier
September 10, 2025For its world premiere of Heart of a Soldier at San Francisco Opera, the creators chose...
Movies & TV
Morning Recap — Doctor Who: The God Complex [Series 32, Episode 11]
September 8, 2025Hurrah! Things are looking up on Doctor Who. The problem of Amy and Rory’s passivity with...
Theatre
Theater Review: Follies, Starring Bernadette Peters
September 8, 2025For Stephen Sondheim's 1971 Follies, however, the Broadway revival creates the perfect situation to reflect on...
Video Games
The Ultimate Gaming Breakdown: Are Video Games Art?
September 8, 2025Not too long ago recent facts were revealed to the world pertaining to the beloved Mayor...
Movies
Movie Review: Drive
September 8, 2025Despite its holy-grail status in Hollywood, a clever script brimming with witty banter is not always...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
September 8, 2025Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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