Culture
West Side Stories, including the latest Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner film
December 20, 2021Recorded just days after West Side Story opened on Broadway in September 1957, Columbia Records producer Goddard Lieberson’s brilliant original Broadway cast recording was my first acquaintance with Leonard Bernstein’s musical score for the updated version...
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Stefan Heym: A central witness to both fascism and socialism in Germany
December 17, 2021Fleeing the Nazis to become a best-selling author in the U.S., then forced by McCarthyism to settle in the GDR in the '50s, he would go on to open the reunified German parliament in 1994.
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A small but mighty IATSE organizing drive pops up in Beverly Hills
December 16, 2021Workers at The Wallis won a union representation vote, but management has yet to recognize it or even agree on who is eligible to be the unit—supervisors, part-timers?
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Frank Chapman, veteran activist, tackles Black Liberation and national question in book
December 15, 2021Chapman’s latest book, Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism, traces the history of and connections between the struggle for socialism and the African American freedom movement.
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‘Good People’: Some are better than you think, others a whole lot worse
December 14, 2021The “good people” of the title are those who subjectively earn that title by some combination of lineage, class, morals and behavior. But it’s a shape-shifting concept.
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