Culture
Nicaragua mourns death of revolutionary priest Ernesto Cardinal
March 3, 2020Nicaragua is in mourning for revolutionary priest, poet and former Sandinista government minister Ernesto Cardenal, who died on Sunday aged 95.
Read more‘Requiem: This Earth, Our Home’: A high school chorus tackles climate change
March 3, 2020An imposing mass of 85 students from the Van Nuys High School choirs, ranging from freshmen to seniors, sang with a 17-piece orchestra, all but two of them student musicians. Fourteen students had solo parts singing...
Read more‘Show Me a Hero’: Greek tragedy and valor from A to Z
March 2, 2020What I loved about playwright Willard Manus’s Show Me a Hero is that it introduced me to Greek freedom fighter Alexandros Panagoulis, a significant historical figure I’d never heard of, and brought back to life the...
Read more‘The Invisible Man’ review: Classic update incorporates horrors of domestic violence
February 28, 2020In a time when many horror films play on what jumps out of the darkness, this film leans more into making your brain wonder what is standing in the darkness that you may never see.
Read more‘Hunters’ review: Amazon’s violent anti-Nazi drama has potential but needs sharper direction
February 28, 2020The first season is uneven in plotting, but the threat of a Fourth Reich taking over the U.S. government reminds us of how dangerous fascist rhetoric is.
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