Culture
‘Perfect Days’: Cleaning the toilets of Tokyo
March 15, 2024What is life for? How do you spend the brief time that we have on earth? What makes you happy? Will your work make you free?
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An American Communist classical playlist: The Composers’ Collective on Spotify
March 15, 2024In the 1930s, left-wing composers rallied together to make music for the working class. Their legacy and music has been largely forgotten.
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Pan African Film Festival: ‘Kipkemboi’ and ‘A Double Life’
March 14, 2024At PAFF, films span the spectrum from Oscar nominees to hard-to-find gems from Africa, the Caribbean, America and beyond that L.A. viewers are unlikely to be able to see at any other venue.
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‘The Way’: A BBC series that’s way off base
March 13, 2024The Way blends a loosely constructed family fiction around the Welsh steel and former mining town of Port Talbot with documentary footage of the 1984 miners’ strike and a mythical other-worldly aspect.
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Opera by British suffragist composer Dame Ethel Smyth in West Coast premiere
March 12, 2024Fête Galante, based on Maurice Baring’s 1909 short story of the same name, is a dream-like tale of aristocrats and a commedia dell’arte troupe whose jealousy, desire, and multi-layered masquerades end in the death of one...
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