Culture
International Publishers gears up for its centennial in 2024
April 14, 2023People’s World sat down with its President Gary Bono and Vice President Tony Pecinovsky for a chat concerning its history.
Read moreThe late East Germany, a new (distorted) history in review
April 12, 2023Katja Hoyer’s “Beyond the Wall” only underlines the mainstream Western narrative of the GDR as a totalitarian state with few, if any, redeeming features.
Read moreTraffic jam at the juncture of Black and ‘Blue’
April 11, 2023The second I entered the Matrix Theatre on the opening night of June Carryl’s Blue, Rogue Machine’s new play immediately got me into the mood indigo.
Read more‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’: Human connection a shield against fascism
April 10, 2023PASADENA, Calif. — Thrust together at an Argentine federal correctional complex, the notorious Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, two men of polar opposite persuasions occupy a common claustrophobic cell. The time is the Dirty War period...
Read moreApril screenings in L.A. honor the Hollywood Ten at 75
April 7, 2023Seventy-five years ago, Hollywood entered one of its bleakest periods.
Read more