Arts
Public intimacy in the new South Africa
June 19, 2014"Public Intimacy" is not outwardly political, but it raises questions about the legacy not only of apartheid but of the freedom struggle itself.
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Piketty, The Wall Street Journal, and rational conservatives
June 18, 2014"Capital in the 21st Century" has almost had the effect of a tsunami on economic thinking in the U.S. after its translation into English washed up on our monoglot shores.
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Ruby Dee, 91: Iconic actress, civil rights activist
June 12, 2014Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actress and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film, has died at age 91.
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“Ida”: Women discover socialist Poland and themselves
June 9, 2014It's a road picture, as the two women go back to their family's homestead and figure out what happened.
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Hollywood Heritage celebrates 100 years of filmmaking in Hawaii
June 6, 2014Ed Rampell will give a video presentation with laser focus on Hollywood feature films and television productions that are shot and set in Hawai'i.
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