arts and culture
John Leguizamo’s ‘Latin History for Morons’ a comedic cry from the heart
September 12, 2019This one-man graphic novel/comic book physical/intellectual play puts “touché” on the expression “tour de force” (hey, French is a Latin language too).
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The times they are a-changing: The Venice Biennale and late capitalism
September 11, 2019May You Live in Interesting Times is the title and organizing principle of this year’s Venice Biennale, the every-other-year festival of contemporary art.
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Artists Rise Up Los Angeles returns with stand-up benefit for Planned Parenthood
September 11, 2019Artists Rise Up Los Angeles (ARULA) returned to the stage on August 27 at The Federal NoHo in order to raise consciousness and cash for a cause.
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The art of ‘The Heal,’ Sophocles’s ‘Philoctetes’ in a Malibu amphitheater
September 6, 2019The production, performed in front of an ancient Roman-style villa that is a repository of relics wrought contemporaneously when Sophocles created his dramas, is suffused with philosophical musings.
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September 1, 1939: In memory of poet W.H. Auden
August 30, 2019Homage to Clio, the title poem of W.H. Auden’s 1960 small book of light verse—the later, shorter poems—is where I found out about the ninth muse, the Muse of History.
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