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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Movie Review: Bridesmaids
August 7, 2025The rivalry between Annie and Helen escalates into several delightfully over the top disasters, including a...
Art & Design
Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
August 7, 2025While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...
Movies
Lies, LIES! Never Trust Nothing, Especially A “Last” Sequel
August 7, 2025After going to the trouble of naming the fourth installment of the series THE Final Destination,...
Art
Badlands Revisited
August 7, 2025Badlands was filmed on location in southern Colorado, and recently I finally made it to Pueblo,...
Music
Welcome to When You See Sparks, CLR’s New Music Blog
August 7, 2025We are pleased to announce the start of CLR’s new music blog. Ben Caro, a Los...
Theatre
The Emotional Significance of Modulation in The Secret Garden
August 7, 2025aka What Happens When You Give a Theatre Kid a B.A. in Music One day I...
Art
Denver’s Camera Obscura Gallery Closes
August 6, 2025In dramatic contrast to the wide-open, sleekly minimalist aesthetic of most modern art galleries, Camera Obscura’s...
Movies
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...
Movies & TV
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...
Military
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...
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....
Movies & TV
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...
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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