arts and culture
‘This Chain’ album by George Mann celebrates the radical minstrel tradition
January 24, 2024George is one Mann on a mission—to remind his listeners of the rich vein of human solidarity that runs through our musical songbook, and to which he belongs.
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‘Poor Things’: Don’t start the Revolution without me!
January 24, 2024Could it be that the very best film of 2023 is actually a sexual and revolutionary tract?!
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Mr. Bates goes to London: The Post Office scandal exposed on a TV series
January 17, 2024The series is terrific at spotlighting, not only a particular miscarriage of justice, but also a more systematic attack on both the collectivity of workers in the service industry and the almost gloating sneer at their...
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‘Art Shields: The People’s Scribe,’ an online presentation and discussion, January 25
January 16, 2024He covered it all: As a reporter for the Daily Worker, antecedent to People’s World, on the front lines in Spain, as a labor journalist, and organizer himself.
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Dennis Broe’s ‘The House That Buff Built,’ latest in L.A. noir crime fiction
January 11, 2024The House That Buff Built by Dennis Broe is the fourth in a series of Harry Palmer mysteries set in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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