Culture
‘Joy Ride’ review: Raunchy comedy has heart and deeper meaning while still supplying laughs
July 3, 2023Joy Ride has themes of identity, sisterhood, and socio-political commentary but keeps the laughs coming.
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Apocalyptic TV and global warming: Don’t worry, be glum
June 30, 2023Fredric Jameson’s famous dictum that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” has been taken up wholeheartedly by the makers of corporate television.
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Damien Geter’s ‘Justice Symphony’ needs to be performed and appreciated nationwide
June 29, 2023We had experienced something—dare I say it?—comparable, perhaps, to what Beethoven’s listeners heard in 1824.
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Meet a few of our ‘transcestors’ on stage now in L.A.
June 27, 2023Based on true accounts, Tales of the Transcestors is an interpretive live telling of six transgender stories across history.
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Passing the baton: The Memphis metaphysics of Martin Luther King in ‘The Mountaintop’
June 26, 2023Hill finds the nuance in depicting a character with the status of a prophet, but who is, as those picket signs of the sanitation strikers he’s supporting declare, “a man,” after all.
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