arts and culture
Steven Knight’s ‘A Christmas Carol’: Dickens in the age of neoliberalism
February 11, 2020This episode points out, as do the others, the ruthlessness of a society based on competition, control and confinement.
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Radical radio station KPFK host Lila Garrett, 94, passes
February 7, 2020"Lila, you were such a great anti-war activist. Your program was one of the most important shows. You spoke the truth and had such great guests on week after week.”
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The ‘West Adams’ family: There goes the neighborhood!
February 4, 2020Skylight Theatre Company’s world premiere of Penelope Lowder’s West Adams is a great new play.
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F.W. Murnau’s ‘Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans’ has thrilling new score
January 31, 2020This is a film town But there’s no period at the end of that sentence because L.A. is so much more.
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‘The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination’
January 24, 2020Oppressed and exploited peoples seek allies where they can, domestically and internationally.
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