Culture
‘People’s World’ earns nominations and a win at SoCal Journalism Awards
July 3, 2019A number of attendees recognized the name of the paper, which was for decades the West Coast edition of the Daily Worker.
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Dialectical theater: Terry Burnsed’s classes at Beijing’s Agricultural University
July 2, 2019He assigns them Mao and hopes his budding corporate PR directors to ask, Whom does art serve?
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Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival: War, a murder mystery and banks
July 1, 2019Constantly in today's headlines and in our government's gunsight, is Islamic terrorism.
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‘An Enemy of the People’: Ibsen’s righteous rage and indignation updated
June 27, 2019I often look askance at adaptations executed for mainly commercial reasons, poetic license perpetrated without the consent of dead bards. But sometimes they work.
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The Siege of Leningrad: Shostakovich and the airbrushing of history
June 26, 2019The Siege of Leningrad was recorded not only in books, but also in music.
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