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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Movie Review: Thor
August 6, 2025Once upon a time in the New Mexico desert, there lived a brilliant young astrophysicist with...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Its Spring Season
August 6, 2025As anyone who has seen the New York City Ballet can attest, George Balanchine hardly stuck...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: The Little Mermaid
August 6, 2025Although described as being more closely aligned with the Andersen tale, this is an exposition more...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Portal 2
August 5, 2025Yes, Portal 2 is great, there are no two bones about it. If all you want...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle – Car (and Chase) Movies That Don’t Run On Diesel
August 5, 2025This week Fast Five - which, as its title rather subtly implies, is the fifth film...
Dance
Review: Boston Ballet’s Bella Figura
August 4, 2025When the curtain rises on The Second Detail, the stage looks leeched of color: the leotards...
Video Games
Sex, Choice and Video Games . . . on a Quantum level.
August 4, 2025I, along with most of the free world, have been playing Portal 2. Perhaps thinking 5th...
Mythology
What Is Best In Life? Not Conan 3D, Barring A Miracle
August 4, 2025Borne on the crest of the wind, I hear already the lamentation of women. Women whose...
Movies
Movie Review: Fast Five
August 4, 2025There are plenty of car chases, explosions, fistfights, and gunfights to hold the proceedings together, which...
Books
Book Review: Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire by Robin Waterfield
August 4, 2025It did not take long before most of the Diadochi were gripped by a lust for...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: 13 Assassins
August 4, 2025His new film, 13 Assassins is certainly his most mature work to date, and with few...
Blog-Dance
San Francisco Ballet Announces 2012 Season
August 3, 2025As each ballet season draws to an end, the speculation about the next year's offerings begins....
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The Weekly Listicle: Three Rings Of Circus Movie Mayhem!
August 3, 2025The circus is a complicated enterprise, and its symbolic value in storytelling has many faces. It...
Games
Video Game Review: Homefront
August 3, 2025What’s a publisher to do when faced with the fact that gamers across the world have...
Theatre
Theater Review: Catch Me If You Can
August 3, 2025Without question, the true stars of this musical are the gorgeous chorus girls who glide along...
Movies
An Interview with Writer/Director Julian Gilbey
August 1, 2025I like to think of myself sometimes as a bit of a Method director, so what...
Art
Art Review: Health for Sale, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 1, 2025Designed for short-term use to promote public health or sell the latest "miracle" drug, medical posters...
Video Games
The Trap of Indoctrination in Gaming
August 1, 2025The committee’s been out of session lately. Unlike some almost government shut downs, this wasn’t due...
Movies
Movie Review: Scream 4
August 1, 2025Scream 4’s tagline “New decade, new rules” may be specious. The rules of surviving a slasher...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
August 1, 2025The pieces in this collection are tight knots or loose koans—sweet little puzzles. Told with 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...
After Image
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
June 10, 2025Earlier 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
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
September 13, 2026Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
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