Non-Fiction Reviews
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
January 9, 2025In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
Music
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
January 9, 2025Oh, no—the cry is almost involuntary—not another Beatles book! What more could anyone possibly say? The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
January 9, 2025Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
January 9, 2025Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
Fiction Reviews
Hannah Coulter – by Wendell Berry
January 8, 2025There was a time, not many decades ago, that most of America’s population labored on family...
Art
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
January 8, 2025The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
Nature
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
January 8, 2025The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
January 8, 2025That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
January 8, 2025Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Humor
In the Therapist’s Chair: Kingdom Hearts and Minecraft
January 7, 2025What makes video games brutal is often their most basic premise. If you think too long...
Blog-Music
Album review: Deuce’s Nine Lives
January 7, 2025...and we have achieved triple threat; misogyny, racism and homophobia. Quite an achievement for a guy...
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Dance
Five Questions with Oregon Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Christopher Stowell
January 7, 2025We have created a lean, but very powerful group of artists with an incredible work ethic...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Fez
January 7, 2025While not completely original (Paper Mario and Echochrome both used similar mechanics) the concept has never...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
January 6, 2025Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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Theatre
Broadway Review: Nice Work If You Can Get It
January 6, 2025Broderick gives a generous performance, turning on his patented man-child charm when called upon, but also...
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Television
Community Recap: Course Listing Unavailable (Season 3, Episode 18)
January 6, 2025Are they, in fact, in the darkest time line? Even though things haven’t worked out the...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
January 6, 2025A recap/review of The Office: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
January 6, 2025Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...
Movies
Trailer Watch: The Expendables 2
January 5, 2025Whatever you felt about the The Expendables, you are meant to feel ten times over about...
Blog-Music
Album Review: Rufus Wainwright’s Out of the Game
January 5, 2025Underneath the skin of the music there is the pulse of the long car trip, songs...
Movies
Best and Worst Movies of 2012 – The First Half
April 10, 2026The Fourth Wall Presents A Look At Our Five Best and There Worst Movies of the...
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Art
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
April 1, 2026But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: We Just Decided To (Season 1, Episode 1)
April 16, 2026The Newsroom is smart, energetic and definitely going to keep audiences’ attention. Too bad we have...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Gliding Over All’ (Season 5, Episode 8)
March 22, 2026Two montages in one episode, guys! This one is set, adorably, to “Crystal Blue Persuasion” by...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast II’ (Season 2, Episode 6)
April 15, 2026“Fair is foul and foul is fair” as the witches in Macbeth chant. The only person...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Lady of the Lake’ (Season 2, Episode 9)
April 11, 2026That which will be given to Freya must be stolen from Arthur, and so Merlin goes...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 17, 2026At first glance it seems absolutely obvious what is going on here: to whit, some pretty...
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Television
True Blood Recap: Season 5 Raises The Stakes
March 25, 2026True Blood has tightened up considerably since the meandering adventures of Season 4, despite the fact...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Last Dragonlord’ (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 4, 2026The longer this series goes on, the more likely it seems that someone might raise a...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Fifty-One’ (Season 5, Episode 4)
March 31, 2026Finally Skyler caves, admitting she doesn’t have a good plan to get the kids away from...
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