arts and culture
The real and reel Ava Gardner: What price celebrityhood?
April 25, 2023As a film historian, when I heard a bioplay was being mounted about silver screen siren Ava Gardner at one of L.A.’s finest theaters, the Geffen Playhouse, it was “Westwood Ho!” for moi.
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‘Until Tomorrow, Comrades’: Manuel Tiago asks us to examine ‘the woman question’
April 18, 2023This masterpiece of modern Portuguese literature is the final installment in International Publishers' translations of the works of Manuel Tiago.
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Traffic jam at the juncture of Black and ‘Blue’
April 11, 2023The second I entered the Matrix Theatre on the opening night of June Carryl’s Blue, Rogue Machine’s new play immediately got me into the mood indigo.
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April screenings in L.A. honor the Hollywood Ten at 75
April 7, 2023Seventy-five years ago, Hollywood entered one of its bleakest periods.
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Work of renowned Indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson showcased at Nashville’s Frist Museum
April 5, 2023This ground-breaking exhibition is a call for Indigenous power, queer recognition, and environmental resistance to the carnage of profit-mad capitalist development.
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