The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
June 29, 2025Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
Art Review: John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 29, 2025There is a big fuss about Pure Beauty, John Baldessari’s retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of...
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
June 29, 2025Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
Movie Review: Tangled
June 29, 2025Tangled isn’t too cool for school, it’s just really cool, and once the film stops apologizing...
The Weekly Listicle: Thanksgiving Dinner Edition!
June 29, 2025In this edition of The Weekly Listicle, we take a moment to be thankful for our...
Art Review: Alessi: Ethical and Radical at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
June 28, 2025The Tea and Coffee Piazza sets, produced in limited editions of ninety-nine, with three artist’s proofs,...
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
June 28, 2025Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Book Review: Fun Inc.: Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century by Tom Chatfield
June 28, 2025One element of the gaming industry that will surprise some readers is the billions of dollars...
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
June 27, 2025With the Potter books, J.K. Rowling fashioned one of the most intricately detailed fantasy lands in...
Vandalism in the Name of the Lord: Kathleen Folden and “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals”
June 27, 2025On October 6, 2010, Kathleen Folden, identified in the media as a 56-year-old truck driver from...




