Arts
“Snowden”: Love, life and privacy in the time of surveillance
September 26, 2016Oliver Stone's excellent new film "Snowden" is a primer on life in the digital age - the perils to privacy, professionalism and the personal.
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“Macbeth”: A specter haunts the Los Angeles Opera
September 26, 2016LA Opera's outstanding production of Giuseppe Verdi's operatic version of Macbeth is simply one of its best.
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A cinematic thriller of love, film, kidnapping and Korean politics
September 23, 2016It probably would have helped the cause of North Korean socialism not to go around kidnapping major film stars.
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Greg Palast’s “Best Democracy Money Can Buy”: Billionaires and ballot bandits
September 22, 2016The film's central focus is an alleged conspiracy to nullify the votes of at least 1 million mostly minority people at the polls.
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“A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story”: Sumptuous, epic L.A. theatre
September 22, 2016The trilogy is an intricate clockwork of characters, generations, a variety of urban settings, and actors performing several roles over the course of three plays and five hours.
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