Culture
Philadelphia’s MOVE and Black political culture on film at TIFF
October 26, 2020It wouldn’t be incorrect to compare much of what we learn about the history of MOVE to current struggles for social justice.
Read more
‘Coming Together’ concert raising awareness for voters rights available to watch now
October 23, 2020Music by radical U.S. composer Frederic Rzewski, African-American composer Florence Price, and Johann Sebastian Bach is featured in an online concert.
Read more
The anti-communist history of Communist labor organizers on the waterfront
October 23, 2020Vernon L. Pedersen’s “orthodox” biases steer what would otherwise be a useful and informative study into the murky waters of anti-communism.
Read more
Sinclair Lewis’s ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ as masterpiece radio theater
October 22, 2020The struggle for democracy is ongoing in every generation, not the least our own on the cusp of a crucial election in which the future course of America will be written.
Read more
More capsule reviews from 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 21, 2020With Kalewa, independent Hawaii filmmaker Mitchel Viernes is reminiscent of Jules Verne, as he takes the South Seas Cinema genre into outer space.
Read more