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Trailer Watch: 2012’s Battleship
August 28, 2025The epic board game becomes a certainly not epic movie. This week, Hasbro released the trailer...
Television
The Weekly Listicle: Two Roles, One Schlup
August 28, 2025Buster Keaton as Mr. and Mrs. Buster Keaton, as well as several other Buster Keatons, in...
Blog-Dance
Dance in the Desert Festival: 3 Questions with Choreographer/Festival Director Kelly Roth
August 28, 2025Now known as a venue for the introduction of innovative work, Dance in the Desert showcases...
Movies
A Watchful Eye On… Marvel’s Animated Avengers
August 28, 2025Marvel's animation division, together with cartoon grand masters Film Roman, is on a roll with The...
Satire
Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton
August 27, 2025An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
Dance
Post:Ballet – Seconds
August 27, 2025In many cities and towns across the U.S., once the local ballet company completes its schedule,...
Video Games
Dissatisfying Difficulty in the Digital Domain!
August 27, 2025This is going to be a quick one folks. Partially because A) I’d like to see...
Music
Baloji: Nowhere and Everywhere
August 27, 2025“Over there I don’t feel totally Conogolese, and here, I don’t particularly feel Belgian,” says Baloji,...
Movies
Movie Review: Captain America: The First Avenger
August 26, 2025For a movie about super soldiers, world domination, and rogue Nazi occultists, it packs surprisingly little...
Movies & TV
Entourage, More Like Blah-ntourage: A Look Back At the HBO Series
August 26, 2025This Sunday, HBO’s long-running series Entourage starts its eighth and final season (following a new episode...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: The Dark Side of the [Holly]Wood
August 26, 2025Hollywood, California. Tinseltown. The City of Dreams. Land of the Giant Sign. The Big H. Where...
Dance
Dance in the Desert Festival: 3 Questions with Choreographer/Dancer Bernard Gaddis
August 26, 2025The Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater, a popular company scheduled to perform the weekend of July...
Art
Beauty & Bounty: American Art in the Age of Exploration, Seattle Art Museum
August 25, 2025The highlight of the gallery would have to be the three paintings by lesser-known artist Martin...
Books
Book Review: How I Lost the War by Filippo Bologna
August 25, 2025Yet in Federico’s town, pools are pumped and wells are closed. They remove centuries old trees...
Video Games
City Tuesday and Chris Zukowski – An Interview with an Independent
August 23, 2025In our ongoing mission to define the facets that make gaming the unique art form it...
Movies
Movie Review: Winnie the Pooh
August 23, 2025It would not be the first time Disney has reinvented the Hundred Acre Wood for a...
Dance
Dance in the Desert Festival: 5 Questions with Choreographer Nannette Brodie
August 23, 2025In between their annual festival appearances, the Brodie company, like most of the other Festival participants,...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Ms. Splosion Man
August 23, 2025‘Splosion Man was a return to form. Of the glory days where the platformer was king...
Movies
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
August 23, 2025A palpable glee wafted through the theater as cameras flashed and 3D glasses shaped like Potter’s...
Movies
Trailer Watch: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo
August 23, 2025Martin Scorsese, Hollywood titan, enjoys a special reputation for directing violent, foul-mouthed crime flicks. Admittedly, he...
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.
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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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