Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Blog-Dance
Golden West College Professional Dance Invitational
July 16, 2025Now in its sixth year, the Golden West weekend offers Southern California audiences the opportunity to...
Movies
The Great Music Videos Valentine’s Edition: “Days Go By” by Dirty Vegas
July 16, 2025Happy arbitrary and consumerist holiday from CLR and The Fourth Wall! Richard Phillips’s album artwork is...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: Giselle Redux
July 16, 2025Many dance companies would kill for the depth of talent present at San Francisco Ballet. Take,...
Movies
Movie Review: Gnomeo and Juliet
July 16, 2025Gnomeo and Juliet seems like a terrible idea. Due to smart writing and great character actors,...
Video Games
“I’ll Buy That For A Dollar!” – A Public Service
July 15, 2025Anyway, here at the Metro City Reform Committee, we're familiar with hard times, we know that...
Best Movies
The Weekly Listicle: No, We CAN’T Feel The Love Tonight!
July 15, 2025This week, Julia Rhodes and I (Dan Fields) recall a bygone era, when entertainment for kids...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet
July 15, 2025I never tire of seeing After the Rain, however, and doubt that I will. This ballet,...
Video Games
The Metro City Reform Committee: Monday Nights at the Giant Ape Fights!
July 15, 2025But something seems wrong in gamingdom. The boss battle and especially the LAST boss battle to...
Dance
Review: Parsons Dance at the Joyce
July 13, 2025Name a piece "Bachiana" and you invite comparison to two twentieth-century greats: Fokine's Chopiniana, with its...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
July 13, 2025This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
Dance
San Francisco Ballet: RAkU, Symphonic Variations and Symphony in C
July 13, 2025A new Possokhov ballet is something SFB audiences have come to relish, and RAkU did not...
Games
Video Game Review: Bionic Commando Rearmed 2
July 13, 2025Bit of a disclaimer: the original Bionic Commando on the NES was the favorite game of...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Giselle
July 13, 2025The cast for the opening night (Saturday, January 29) featured the deservedly popular Yuan Yuan Tan...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle is Seeing Double!
July 13, 2025The Roommate‘s Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester. Fiction is perpetually preoccupied with doppelgangers–doubles or evil twins....
Dance
Dance Review: NYCB Offers Polyphonia, For the Love of Duke, and Concerto DSCH
July 13, 2025Yet while these dancers retain their individuality, Ratmansky manages to make their movements seem of a...
Dance
A Gala Celebration with San Francisco Ballet
July 13, 2025As usual for these events, Wednesday night’s audience came in their finest duds — men in...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
July 12, 2025The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Rite
July 12, 2025The Rite is remarkably dull where its most obvious predecessor, The Exorcist, was sharp as a...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dead Space 2
July 12, 2025For many years, Electronic Arts was seen by most as the “evil empire” of the video...
Dance
And There’s Prize Money!
July 12, 2025News flash — Dance makers need money! Oh, the big companies are on all the corporate...
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...
Top Posts & Pages
Trending
Contributors
