Culture
Winners of the Los Angeles 2025 Progie Theater Awards are announced
March 5, 2025The Progie Theater Awards are the “un-Tony,” the people’s “alternative Tony Awards” that honor Los Angeles area plays and stage talents of conscience and consciousness.
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This director could make you Communist: Trumbo’s ham sandwich ethics and Marxist art
March 4, 2025The legacy of the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has shifted in the past decade. His work and philosophy offer guidance today.
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‘These Shining Lives’: Women fight back against radium poisoning on the job
March 3, 2025The pace steps up as with each turn of their workplace disease, the women are forced to overcome expected demeanors of shyness and humility if they are to pursue justice.
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How literature inspired, then justified Zionism: Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘On Zionist Literature’
February 28, 2025On a summer day in Beirut in 1972, a Palestinian man and his 17-year-old niece walked from their home to their car. He turned the key in the ignition, detonating a grenade, which triggered a plastic...
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‘Four Women in Red’: Where are the missing and murdered Indigenous women?
February 27, 2025Indigenous women are currently facing an epidemic of violence, with some of the highest rates of physical and sexual violence in the nation.
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