Movies
- Beautiful Boy
- Beginners
- Submarine
- X-Men: First Class
- Super 8
- The Trip
- Green Lantern
- Mr. Popper's Penguins
- Bad Teacher
- A Better Life
- Cars 2
- Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Horrible Bosses
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
- Winnie the Pooh
- Captain America
- Crazy Stupid Love
- The Future
- The Smurfs
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- 30 Minutes or Less
- Our Idiot Brother
TV
Music
- Circuital by My Morning Jacket
- Black Beauty by Arthur Lee & Love
- It's All True by Junior Boys
- San Francisco Opera, Der Ring des Nibelungen
- Bon Iver, Bon Iver by Bon Iver
- The Brick Album by The Greencards
- Tha Carter IV by Lil Wayne
- New York Philharmonic, The Cunning Little Vixen
- The Light of the Sun by Jill Scott
- Cleveland Orchestra, Bruckner: (R)evolution
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival
- Wilderness by The Features
- Los Angeles Philharmonic, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Books
- Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- The Kid by Sapphire
- The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
- In Spite of Everything by Susan Gregory Thomas
- The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
- A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
- A Book of Secrets by Michael Holroyd
- House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
Fine Art
As the mercury rises, here's our guide to what to watch, read, see and hear