Steve Carell: Serial Young Lady Sexer?
Seeking a Friend for the End of the WorldFocus Features 101 minutesSeeking a Friend for the End of the Worldis a lovely little film—one that's painfully funny, and drenched in rich metaphor. The...
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Quick Reads: "The Receptionist" by Janet Groth
The Receptionist: An Education at The New YorkerBy Janet GrothALGONQUIN BOOKSIn 1957, New Yorker staffer E.B. White hired 19-year-old Janet Groth, a doe-eyed Midwesterner, as the magazine's...
View Article21 Adjectives (and 4 Adverbs) to Describe Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom"
Whiny, sententious, stale, tedious, rambling, unamusing, flat, ho-hum, childish, embarrassing, jejune, twitchy-eyed, daffy, obvious, frustrating, self-congratulatory, left-leaning, emotionally...
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Quick Reads: "Little America" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Little America: The War Within the War for AfghanistanBy Rajiv ChandrasekaranALFRED A. KNOPFBefore turning his attention to our other military misadventure, Washington Post associate editor Rajiv...
View ArticleRock Out With Your Vagina Out (Happy B-Day, Title IX!)
As of Saturday, Title IX, the anti-discrimination law that isn't just about sports, is officially over the hill. Over the past 40 years, women have surpassed men in college degrees. Women's...
View ArticleReview: Sonny Smith Goes a Little Bit Country
Sonny & the SunsetsLongtime Companion PolyvinylBreakups inspire change. For some people, that means a haircut. For Sonny Smith, the prolific Bay Area-based troubadour and playwright behind...
View ArticleRoad Tripping Nuns Take on the Ryan Budget
Back in April, Congressman Paul Ryan trotted out his Catholicism to justify a budget plan that carves deeply into social welfare programs. Then the Vatican slammed nuns for spending too much time...
View ArticleLISTEN: Mexico's Media Predicament
"The fact that you can make jokes about extremely tragic subjects is something that people are experts at here in Mexico," says Greg Berger, known as "gringoyo," a contributor to the website Narco...
View ArticleShort Takes: "Granito: How to Nail a Dictator"
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator SKYLIGHT PICTURES103 minutesFilmmaker Pamela Yates, who previously embedded with Guatemalan government forces and left-wing insurgents to document the dictatorship's...
View ArticleI Would Very Much Like To Murder This TV Show Savagely, Please
It was difficult for me to finish writing my review of Anger Management because every time I think about the show I see a hot flash of red, the veins in my neck tighten, and I wake up hours later,...
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