Review

Our Girl in Havana: A Bohemian Chic Eatery In Cuba

Tyler Wetherall | Posted 05.21.2012

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You don't come to Cuba for the food. Well, you never used to come to Cuba for the food.

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Review: The Avengers Delivers!

Bryan Young | Posted 05.02.2012

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The Avengers is going to be the biggest movie of the summer. There's really no question about that.

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A Required Dose of 'Culinary Intelligence'

Rozanne Gold | Posted 04.11.2012

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Not only should doctors know about healthy recipes, and nutritionists should know how to cook, but most importantly the chefs who promote healthy food must know something about nutrition.

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The Dark Underbelly of Modern India

Warren Adler | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, India, Katherine Boo, Review, Book, Book Reviews, Annawadi, Books News

There are many ways to assess Katherine Boo's remarkable book Behind the Beautiful Forevers about the disenfranchised, struggling, impoverished underclass of India. Beyond the general is the harsh statistic that India contains one-third of the impoverished people on the planet.

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Reviewing the 23" HP TouchSmart 610 All In One PC

Ramon Nuez | Posted 03.24.2012

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Update: HP touch suite is called "Magic Canvas," not "Smart Canvas." Now a few weeks ago Zev and I took a look at the HP TouchSmart 310, which we li...

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Doing Carnage to Carnage

Warren Adler | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Carnage, Movie, Review, Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, God of Carnage, Stage to Film Adaptations, John C. Reilly, Carnage Film, Roman Polanski Carnage, Christoph Waltz, Culture News

Some, but not all live theatrical productions transfer well into movies. The movie Carnage is one of those most unfortunate cases.

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Phenomenal

Peter Clothier | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Art, Review, San Diego, Modern Art, Art Installation, Southern California, Arts News

As I've said, I'm a sucker when it comes to California Light/Space art. I arrived in California in 1968, when the movement was still at its height.

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"Freedom" to Try to Write Literature

Robert Schwab | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Freedom, Review, American Life, Jonathan Franzen, Writing, Fiction, Freedom Review, Denver News

Finally having finished Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, I wanted to review it here, hoping to acknowledge the long-term pleasure one gets from reading even when the quality of the writing is less than you might have hoped.

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Martha Marcy May Marlene: A Brave Movie

Warren Adler | Posted 01.18.2012

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Despite its flaws, this should be seen by everyone as a cautionary tale of what could happen to an unsuspecting victim by a sinister cult leader bent on recruiting followers for whatever nefarious purposes he or she has in mind. Think of it as a cautionary tale.

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[REVIEW] Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

Turnstyle | Posted 01.04.2012

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By: Noah Nelson Publicity photo courtesy Submarine Deluxe/Constance Marks Full disclosure: the first time I became aware of the Elmo phenomenon I...

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A Surprise of Sentiment and 50-50

Carol Smaldino | Posted 12.03.2011

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Just when we think we have these characters pegged, we find out we don't. And we feel things we didn't expect to.

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Follies -- Never Look Back

Naughty But Nice Rob | Posted 11.27.2011

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It wouldn't surprise me a bit if in a decade or so people will be looking back on this production of Follies with nearly as much reverence as those who look back upon the original.

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"Storydwelling" - A Review of Heatherlyn's New Album

Rev. Roger Wolsey | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Review, Blog, Album, Stories, Album Review, Music, Storydwelling, Heatherlyn, Wolsey, Arts News

What's your story? That's what singer-songwriter Heatherlyn's new album "Storydwelling" invites us to ponder. Our ears, hearts, and souls enjoy a be...

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Paul Carr's Hotel Show-Tell: El Cortez Cabana Suites, Las Vegas

Paul Carr | Posted 09.21.2011

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After my deeply traumatic experience at Rumor, Las Vegas, I was looking for somewhere fun and friendly to recover. I found it at the El Cortez Cabana Suites in downtown Vegas.

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Paul Carr's Hotel Show-Tell: The Four Seasons, Las Vegas

Paul Carr | Posted 09.13.2011

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I'm back in Vegas and figured it was about time to bring my highly amateurish and somewhat sweary hotel room reviews back to HuffPost

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So Much To Love, So Much To Regret

Martin Maidenberg | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Review, Follies, Musical Theater, Arts News

Stephen Sondheim's seminal and dazzling 1971 musical, Follies, having just finished its successful run at Washington's Kennedy Center, is now en route to Broadway.

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Theater Review: How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

Bill Swadley | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: How to Disappear, Boston Court, Review, Pasadena, Nancy Keystone, Theater, Fin Kennedy, La Around Town, Brad Culver, Los Angeles News

The central character in Fin Kennedy's How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found might be a dead man. Asleep in a life that probably seemed like a dream in his early youth.

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Theater Review: Chairs in the City of Dreams

Marc Porter Zasada | Posted 06.14.2011

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A brilliant new production of Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs, now at A Noise Within Theater in Glendale, reminds us that genuine classics do not lose, but acquire meaning over time.

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The Truth Just Might Be in Here

Marc Hershon | Posted 06.08.2011

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Full disclosure: I'm a huge conspiracy buff. Not in the sense that I believe in UFOs, hybrid alien-human star babies, FEMA death camps or many of the...

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Lee Camp's Chaos for the Weary Cuts for the Quick

Dylan Brody | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chaos for the Weary is rife with startling juxtapositions and keen cultural insights on social injustice, economic disparity and rampant consumerism, as Lee Camp keeps the laughs coming throughout.

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Book Review: 'O' Provides Entertainment For Political Junkies

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 05.25.2011

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"O: A Presidential Novel" (Simon & Schuster, $25.99), by Anonymous: "O," the much-hyped fictionalized account of President Barack Obama's 2012 re-elec...

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An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains plot revelations; don't read past the second paragraph if you don't want to know how the story ends.]We can be fa...

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iPad Killer: Truly, Really, I mean It

Jim Louderback | Posted 05.25.2011

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CES 2011: I'm the first to admit that I fall victim to shiny objects at trade shows, and I regularly call every new tablet an iPad Killer. But now, really, I've found it.

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Why Mark Twain Should Have Burned His Letters

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The Memory Chalet" by Susan Salter Reynolds The Los Angeles Times One of the nation's leading public intellectuals, Judt was inspired by historian Jo...

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China: Waking The Sleeping Giant

The New York Review Of Books | Christian Caryl | Posted 05.25.2011

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Unveiling Hidden China Christian Caryl The New York Review Of Books Napoleon famously described China as a sleeping giant that would shake the world ...

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