Culture

‘Summer of Soul,’ a look back at the pulsating 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

July 23, 2021 By Anthony Mangos

Music scene of the late sixties and early seventies was a zenith for the many styles of which African were a part.

Links between domestic civil rights and anti-colonial struggles explored in new book

July 22, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky

Though primarily focused on the period after World War II, the book explores the earlier period too.

Cannes and COVID go together like a horse and carriage

July 22, 2021 By Dennis Broe

Another Cannes Film Festival is in the books and this one was beset with all the contemporary contradictions as the global crisis outran the global comeback.

New crime fiction novel ‘A Hello to Arms’ slams postwar capitalism in L.A.

July 21, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

Dennis Broe’s new crime fiction novel starring private investigator Harry Palmer in his second Los Angeles outing has just appeared from Pathmark Press.

On the Topanga Trail of the Assassins: ‘Caesar’ on stage in L.A.

July 14, 2021 By Ed Rampell

After an extended intermission suffering under the twin tyrannies and plagues of Trumpism and COVID, the return of Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum marks a major milestone on our road back to fully living. For what is life...