Culture
“Standing in the Breach”: good politics and music from Jackson Browne
October 8, 2014Jackson Browne has released his 14th studio album. "Standing in the Breach" is the most political album in Browne's increasing leftward cultural and political career.
Read moreReview: Smiling through the Apocalypse, Esquire in the 60s
October 7, 2014Esquire editor Harold Hayes was arguably to magazines what famous literary editor Maxwell Perkins (editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe) was to novels.
Read moreTrust and obey: “Choir Boy”
October 6, 2014Residents of Greater Los Angeles are lucky to have the West Coast premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's play "Choir Boy" currently running at the Geffen Playhouse.
Read more“Go Figure,” a poem about war and peace
October 6, 2014"Gotta operate to heal, incarcerate the bastille, make it schools to jobs, not the iron heal. Gotta make it real."
Read more“The Liberator” generates some thinking
October 6, 2014My movie buddy went to see "Gone Girl" with her book club, so I recruited a professor friend of mine to see "The Liberator" with.
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