• Issue Archive for
  • Jul 25-31, 2012
  • Vol. 22, No. 30
Digital Edition

News+Features

  • Suited to a T

    The perfect summer sport … just watch out for hookworms

Food+Drink

Music

  • CD Reviews
  • CD Reviews

    New release from The Full Steam (formerly Yours Truly) and The Toys du Jour.

On Screen

  • Elena
  • Elena

    Zvyagintsev's film is a critical mirror, reflecting a current morality — or really, amorality — in post-Soviet Russia
  • The Dark Knight Rises
  • The Dark Knight Rises

    A solid piece of entertainment that lacks the coherent themes and tension to be as provocative and enthralling as fans might have hoped.
  • Pink Ribbons, Inc.
  • Pink Ribbons, Inc.

    Lea Pool's documentary pulls the curtain back on the mega-branding efforts that are the many pink-ribbon campaigns for breast-cancer "awareness."
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild

    This fable of survival, told from a child's perspective, is unlike anything in theaters this summer

Art

  • <i>Impressionism in a New Light</i>
  • Impressionism in a New Light

    Carnegie exhibit juxtaposes painting and photography from a time of artistic revolution

Views

  • Savage Love

    The world is full of men who are turned on by wearing panties or a little lingerie
  • Lost by Forfeit

    Poetic justice, at least, for Penn State

On Stage

  • <i>Sweeney Todd</i>
  • Sweeney Todd

    This is, without question, the greatest Sweeney I've ever heard.
  • Toyer: An Unavoidable Tragedy

    This Toyer is a grand experiment in theater, and the production far surpasses its outrageous script.
  • <i>Suddenly Last Summer</i>
  • Suddenly Last Summer

    These are meaty roles, among the best in the Williams canon, but the long monologues are difficult beyond mere verbosity.

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