Culture
Radical plots in our comics? Marvel goes there
March 16, 2016Marvel Comics has often used its fictional universe as an allegory for real-life politics.
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Singing for change: Soundtrack of a movement
March 16, 2016There is a soundtrack to the rising movement for social change.
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“Summer and Smoke”: Tennessee’s waltz and the blindness of neighbors
March 14, 2016Tara Battani's is among the finest acting I've ever seen on the L.A. boards, and is by itself worth the price of admission.
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Last tango in Kabul? “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” and the embedded reporter
March 10, 2016"Tango" perpetuates that age-old Hollywood tradition of setting stories in the "exotic" Third World.
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Political thriller with music about Japanese HIV scandal impresses L.A.
March 10, 2016Fast moving, eye-catching, colorful, deeply affecting, cathartic, and redemptive.
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