arts and culture
The 1968 L.A. high school walkout celebrated in new student-written oratorio
March 5, 2019What if you attended a high school where you were forbidden to use your own native language (even though it’s one that was taught as a subject there)?
Read moreWrap-up of the 27th annual Pan African Film Festival
March 4, 2019The L.A.-based Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF) continued to emit a dazzling light of brilliant positivity and hope.
Read more‘Witness Uganda’ musical takes on neocolonialism, sexuality, AIDS, and rocks!
February 28, 2019The Uganda-set song and dance show now winding up its residency here at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts has an unusual subtitle: A Documentary Musical.
Read more‘The Sacred Veil’ opens hearts to the poignancy of death and loss
February 22, 2019Every culture has its ways of honoring the sacredness of life—and of death.
Read more‘My Brilliant Friend’: Two broke girls
January 10, 2019The brilliance of the series would seem to owe much to mid-20th-century Italian neorealist directors.
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