Culture
‘The Americans’ returns with the cathartic ‘Dead Hand’
April 2, 2018During the 1980s, the Soviet Union steadily lost ground against the United States economically, in large part due to the disparity in military spending. The U.S. spent lavishly to maintain and expand military bases along the...
Read more“When God Sleeps”: An Iranian musician critiques his society
April 2, 2018Till Schaudner’s new documentary When God Sleeps is a robust, thoughtful account of punk rocker Shahin Najafi’s struggle to have his music and ideas heard despite death threats from the Iranian government.
Read more‘Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe’ recalls Chicano movement in East L.A.
April 2, 2018Los Lobos may have had its most successful tune in “Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe,” and now you can experience a remount of a musical play by that name that features Los Lobos songs as performed...
Read moreBeing a Black entertainment creator in the era of ‘Black Panther’
March 30, 2018Such a topic was grappled with at a recent panel at the annual WonderCon convention. The panel, “Blacks in Entertainment: Designing for the Culture” discussed the topic of “what next” for Black workers in the industry,...
Read moreHopeless in Gaza? A talk with scholar Norman Finkelstein
March 29, 2018“The nadir of the Palestinian struggle is now,” says distinguished but controversial scholar Norman G. Finkelstein.
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