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Shannon Pfile would have been a June bride. She and …
Joaquin Avila has been championing voting rights for…
I’m not exactly sure what it is, but there’s something about satirist George Saunders that sends the New York Times into grotesque fits of hysterical simile disease. In one review, he was dubbed “the illegitimate offspring of Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut,” as if those two could have had …
The haunting Belgian drama L’Enfant recalls other ti…
Mike Kanalakis walks over to a man on a bench in fro…
Co-directors Tim Johnson (Antz) and Karey Kirkpatrick (the film’s screenwriter) make sly commentary on the suburbanization of America with a computer-animated kid’s comedy notable for its ingenious voice cast that includes Bruce Willis as a con-artist raccoon named RJ and Garry Shandling as …
In the slice of California history that is the Monte…
Gussied-up guests wander past sweeping views of the …
In Urinetown (the Musical), it’s a privilege to pee …
Mark Stuart says that after a string of failures in the music industry following the break-up of his punk band The X-Offenders, he found his true calling when a music legend started to visit his dreams. Stuart recalls one specific recurring dream in which he waited in a line of people to mee…
After a storied career preserving architectural trea…
