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Sedona, the Movie: Vortexes, Auras! Oh, My!

Sedona, Arizona, is stunningly beautiful—“The most beautiful city in America,” USA Travel called it—but also beset by an often distracting New Age loopiness. “You know what?” a local psychic tells the frazzled main character in the movie Sedona, “You need … Continue reading

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10 Reasons Why Muslims Can’t Be Good Americans

Yesterday an acquaintance forwarded this to me in an email. It’s a typical piece of web debris, asking you to please not delete it before you pass it on to as many of your friends as possible. So I am … Continue reading

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Lake Tahoe: The Style of Absence

There’s a lot of absence in Fernando Eimbcke’s odd but ultimately moving film Lake Tahoe. Reason, for one thing, and Plot, at least initially, as well as smooth transitions. Eimbcke simply cuts to black, sometimes staying there many seconds before … Continue reading

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