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The Maya Rudolph Show
Saturday Night Lost: Maya Rudolph and SNL Nostalgia
Phillip MaciakMay 21, 2014
- Dear Television
Avoided: On Georges Perec
Georges Perec was not all fun and games: what he was talking about, more than anything else, was the Holocaust.
Eric Beck RubinMay 20, 2014
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Mockingbird"
Westeros Self-fashioning
Sarah MesleMay 20, 2014
- Dear Television
Support Your Local Wussy
The sad transcendence of Wussy's 'blue-collar bohemianism'
Charles TaylorMay 20, 2014
The Consummate Writer of Place: Christopher Rand in Los Angeles, China, and Beyond, 1943-1968
Unearthing one of the most unjustly forgotten books on our city.
Colin MarshallMay 20, 2014
- Travel
Smoking with Strangers
The comic intimacy of 'High Maintenance'
Micah HauserMay 19, 2014
The Los Angeles Review of Cups
A review of Chipotle's 'Cultivating Thought: Author Series'
Maria BustillosMay 19, 2014
- Humor
“… and Circumstance”
There’s more than one reason to cry at graduations. Ask the queerer kin. Ask the stepparents. Ask the ex-stepparents.
Peter CovielloMay 19, 2014
A Visit with the Master Musicians of Joujouka
Piper MavisMay 18, 2014
The Road Through Redemption Camp: Religion, Fertility and Abortion in Lagos
Allyn GaestelMay 18, 2014
The Road Back to Sucre
Daniel Lansberg-RodriguezMay 18, 2014
Grocer’s Gothic
Chris MorganMay 17, 2014
A Purer Cinematic Experience: TCM Festival 2014
Turner Classic Movies has hosted its Classic Film Festival in Hollywood for half a decade now.
Michael NordineMay 15, 2014
Mad Men, Season 7: "The Runaways"
Only Mothers Left Alive
Phillip MaciakMay 14, 2014
- Dear Television
On Defending Mike Diana
Is Mike Diana obscene? You decide.
May 14, 2014
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Laws of Gods and Men"
Ten Things I Hate About My Favorite Show
Sarah MesleMay 13, 2014
- Dear Television