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In Memoriam: The Five Best Shows Cancelled by Comedy Central
August 18, 2025Norm Macdonald, formerly of Sports Show With Norm Macdonald Yesterday, Comedy Central announced its cancellation of...
Movies
Movie Review: Cars 2
August 17, 2025If there’s one thing Pixar always does right, it’s the animation itself. Cars 2 is no...
Dance
Dance Review: American Ballet Theatre’s Coppélia
August 17, 2025Osipova dances on a similarly grand scale: her buoyant leaps seem disproportionately large for her small...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet — Promotions & New Company Members
August 17, 2025San Francisco Ballet has announced four company promotions, two new company members, and six new apprentices...
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The Weekly Listicle: What’s The Deal With…?
August 17, 2025Yes, I know it’s obvious. In honor of Louie returning to FX tonight, Sean Penn announcing...
Movies & TV
Louie: Television’s Brilliant-est Comedy
August 16, 2025Louis CK as Louie. This Thursday, Louis CK returns to television with the second season of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Duke Nukem Forever
August 16, 2025No, wait I was right the first time: Shame on you, Duke Nukem development teams! You...
Theatre
Theater Review: Spider-man: Turn off the Dark
August 16, 2025Despite the fact that the producers of this spectacle have been changing their minds for months...
Music
James Blake in Chicago: Sold-Out and Silent
August 16, 2025I was late to the must-attend show in Chicago of 2011…and I’m better for it....
Movies
Movie Review: Green Lantern
August 15, 2025This sequence is the best in the entire film. There’s something very 1950s sci-fi serial about...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: An Obit For Print Journalism
August 15, 2025CALIFORNIA LITERARY REVIEW, Internet- Print journalism is dying. Well, it’s been dying for years if we’re...
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The Guggenheim Effect on Gaming
August 15, 2025During the grand Marvel comics crossover event of 2006 – Civil War – Wolverine, the clawed...
Movies
Movie Review: Super 8
August 15, 2025Super 8 is quality filmmaking. This is what a PG-13 summer blockbuster looks like. For those...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
August 14, 2025The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Troll Hunter
August 14, 2025The idea of hunting mythical trolls with the technological advantages of modern storm chasing and large...
Movies & TV
AMC’s Unfortunate Killing
August 14, 2025As The Killing starts its final three episodes next week without a renewal (or cancellation) notice,...
Art
Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 14, 2025Put them together as an integrated unit and you have a masterpiece. And in doing so,...
Music
You Can Never Leave: L.A. Burnout Mixes
August 13, 2025What do you do when you get tired of the place you live in? When you...
Best Books
Day Late, Dollar Short, Solid Gold: “Dear Twilight…”
August 13, 2025Somewhere in the Twilight cutting room, did the thought never stir that they could drag untold...
Movies
Movie Review: X-Men: First Class
August 13, 2025In the world of the mainstream superhero movie, X-Men: First Class shares a place alongside 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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