arts and culture
POETRY: Open the books!
October 18, 2023"What is that you say? That you, who built your empire off the sweat of our labor, cannot afford to keep us on at union wages?"
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‘The War on Disco’: Winners and losers in 1970s American culture
October 16, 2023As long as there has been culture, there have been cultural wars. Whenever there have been differences between individuals or groups within society, there has been a battle of ideas, styles, language, narrative, dress, and entertainment.
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POETRY: Hair in the game…
October 13, 2023A poem from Raymond Nat Turner.
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Songs of Argentina fill new album with bass-baritone Federico De Michelis
October 12, 2023Argentina’s rich musical world is often subsumed, and so wrongly, under the single word “tango.” There’s so much more.
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‘Tacos La Brooklyn’ centers cultural identity: Who appreciates and who appropriates?
October 6, 2023The playwright asks us to examine our view of family, interracial dynamics, cultural appropriation, gentrification, and the pros and cons of the street venture scene all the while immersing us in a distinctly Los Angeles social...
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