arts and culture
AOC, Sanders, Baez, Neil Young, rock the free world at L.A. ‘Bernie-chella’
April 16, 2025Themes of class struggle, people power, labor militancy, and anti-authoritarianism ignite the massive Fighting Oligarchy rally.
Read more‘Adolescence’: TV vérité masterpiece or just adolescent?
April 9, 2025Adolescence: Not a TV vérité masterpiece but simply “posh” pretentiousness.
Read more‘Jane Eyre’: Charlotte’s web captures Me Rochester, You Jane on stage
April 8, 2025Jeanne Syquia embodies the title character’s intensity, integrity, intellect and sensitivity with her finely etched portrait of the 19ish-year-old governess yearning to breathe free.
Read moreLos Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival: Theatre review
April 1, 2025Annual festival and gala honors multi-cultural one-woman shows—and then some.
Read moreMoyshe Kulbak’s ‘The Zelmenyaners’: A Yiddish novel about the early Revolutionary Soviet years
March 31, 2025Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zelmenyaners first appeared in English translation in 2013, but it escaped my attention. It has now appeared in a new edition from White Goat Press, an imprint of the Yiddish Book Center in...
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