It’s both bittersweet and devilishly unfair that Lucifer’s best episode might be its last. Monday night, three days after announcing the show’s cancellation, Fox aired the last episode of its third season, “A Devil of My Word.” And what an episode it was. Having wrapped up the arc of Charlotte …
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Theatre Review (Philadelphia): ‘Informed Consent’ by Deborah Zoe Laufer at Lantern Theater Company
Based on a true story of medical science vs. Native American beliefs, Laufer's play creates a too-simplistic binary picture of the issues, though the production is worth seeing for its excellent staging and acting.
Read More »Theater Review (Philadelphia): ‘An Iliad’ by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare
The poet of Homer's 'Iliad' has become immortal, doomed forever to retell the story of the Trojan War, just as humanity is doomed to re-enact it. Telling a story set thousands of years ago, 'An Iliad' is a haunting play for the modern age about human nature, just like the epic it’s based on.
Read More »Theatre Review (Philadelphia): ‘Grounded’ by George Brant Delves into Drone Warfare and PTSD
Instead of being deployed half a world away, a drone pilot can drive home to her family every night – until war and home jumble and the separation between the two is erased.
Read More »Philadelphia Celebrates 50th Anniversary of ‘Star Trek’
The city hosted two events to commemorate the special occasion, thus making it possible to travel down the major cities of the East Coast and celebrate 'Star Trek' in each one.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Star Trek Beyond’
'Star Trek Beyond' lets us look at 'Star Trek' in a new way while still honoring the original, and that’s all we ever really asked of a 'Star Trek' reboot.
Read More »Traveling to the Edge of the World: Kamchatka, Part One
I wanted to travel off the edge of the world. Kamchatka, at Russia's far eastern edge, is probably as close as today's globetrotter can get.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Geek Feminist Revolution’ by Kameron Hurley
"The Geek Feminist Revolution" by Kameron Hurley is one of the more perceptive and insightful works of non-fiction I have come across in years.
Read More »Theater Review (Philadelphia): ‘The Hard Problem’ by Tom Stoppard at The Wilma Theatre
The irony of 'The Hard Problem' is that, despite its insistence on the fact that the human brain is so much more complex than a computer, which functions via simplistic binaries and calculations, the whole play is reducible to a simplistic, and false, binary.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Martian’ by Andy Weir
A runaway bestseller, the book boasts a simple but intriguing premise: with a mission gone wrong, NASA astronaut Mark Watney is accidentally stranded on Mars and needs to find a way to survive and get back to Earth.
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