Culture
Remembering Mexican author and cartoonist Rius
August 25, 2017May he rest in peace in Humor Heaven; the religious one didn't matter to him.
Read more‘Thank God for the Russian Revolution’: When America discovered Bolshevism
August 25, 2017In 1917, American workers, radicals, and liberals discovered communism for the first time, and they liked what they saw.
Read moreAleksandr Dovzhenko’s “Earth” to screen in L.A.
August 21, 2017The 75-minute Earth is sheer cinematic poetry in motion, one of the most beautiful black and white and silent films ever shot.
Read more“Gook”: The not-so-black-and-white race dynamics of LA riots
August 17, 2017By centering on Black and Asian Americans, Chon gives audiences a powerful slice-of-life perspective into racial relationships not often explored.
Read more“Trouble in Mind”: Nobody knows the stage stereotypes I’ve seen
August 16, 2017This production of Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind came to me as a theatrical revelation. It is a classic “the worm turns” tale.
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