Should NYU faculty and their dependent children receive full tuition remission?
This week's Pretentiousaurus highlights Headless Society, a creative writing club at NYU that sticks to a rigid time limit and leaves members with a better sense of who they are.
Columnist Matt Margini checks out the "Bluebeard on Film" series at Anthology Film Archives, which features some ridiculous riffs on the questionable fairy tale.
Sam Mendes' production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" — the second half of his Bridge Project at BAM — is full of engrossing, spectacular imagery.
Columnist Matt Margini struggles to wrap his head around Damien Hirst's "End of an Era," an ostentatious art exhibit that features gold, diamonds and formaldehyde.
Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "A Prophet (Un prophéte)" is a complex, beautiful and thoroughly gritty prison movie.
Columnist Matt Margini interviews comedian Tom Green, who's making a return to stand-up after the success of his web show on Tomgreen.com.
In the excellent Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge," Liev Schreiber gives an intensely physical performance as an Italian-American father obsessed with his adoptive daughter (Scarlett Johansson).
Columnist Matt Margini avoided the ubiquitous Super Bowl by watching the decidedly more American Puppy Bowl instead.
