Arts
“Batman v Superman”: It’s hero vs. hero, but the audience loses
March 31, 2016This film is the cinematic equivalent of a child slamming two plastic toy dinosaurs into one another.
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“Madame Butterfly”: The racial/sexual politics of cross-cultural concubinage
March 30, 2016LA Opera's current production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" hits not only a homer, but a grand slam.
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Open letter to Motion Picture Academy, L.A. Women’s Theater Festival
March 28, 2016"Dear Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, you have come under intense criticism for Cloroxing this year's Oscars..."
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This week in women’s history: Poet-novelist-activist Marge Piercy turns 80
March 28, 2016Piercy has written 17 novels, including bestsellers, and 19 volumes of poetry.
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“The Americans”: Hostility between two world powers in new episode
March 25, 2016We return to larger considerations and smaller links in this drama between Philip and Elizabeth, and their loving, yet emotionally torn daughter.
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