arts and culture
‘Monsters of the American Cinema’: Creatures from the Black and sexual lagoon
May 13, 2024St. Croix’s play dramatizes this above all else: What we have in common is more powerful than what keeps us apart.
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TCM Festival 2024: The ‘Coachella of Classic Movies’ rides again in Hollywood
May 9, 2024So this year I looked forward to the April 18-21 TCM Classic Film Festival more than ever. At least I’d be able to enjoy TCM for four days without interruption, and as usual, I wasn’t disappointed.
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Oliver Mayer’s ‘Ghost Waltz’ about Indigenous Mexican composer Juventino Rosas receives world premiere
May 7, 2024The story is an important one, and it is told with great imagination and a wonderful score of waltzes, polkas, classical song, opera and ragtime.
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‘Fallout’: Who wasted the Wasteland?
May 2, 2024Unlike other disaster-based games that have fallen by the wayside, this show makes real the pernicious threat of late capitalism.
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Dark stories for dark times: The 2024 crime novel
April 29, 2024This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon was marked by the intrusion into the spine of the novels by the real-world problems and catastrophes going on around the festival.
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