Arts
“Walk All Night”: Documentary follows Chicago “bucket boys” to Senegal
August 18, 2016Social worker Elita Tewelde wanted to empower Chicago's bucket drummers, mostly young African American men and boys, through a connection to their past.
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La Plaza de Cultura y Artes: Elevating historical consciousness of Angelenos
August 17, 2016Los Angeles museum confronts Angelino and American ahistoricism. A recent event highlighted the lives of Great Depression-era women cannery workers.
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“Indignation”: A snapshot of 1950s social contradictions
August 16, 2016Dressed up as a coming of age love story, film is a tale individuals pushing up against the social, economic, and cultural limits of their time.
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This week in history: Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca murdered
August 15, 2016In the beginning weeks of the Spanish Civil War, Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was murdered by fascist soldiers.
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Florence Foster Jenkins of the trachea: Go with the Flo
August 12, 2016Meryl Streep fully incarnates Jenkins, endowing the fleshy, flashy, flawed dowager with her full humanity.
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