arts and culture
‘Assassins,’ Stephen Sondheim’s musical about Presidential shooters is a hit
February 24, 2022This imaginative, harrowing, gallows humor-type production marks the triumphant return of one of L.A.’s finest theaters.
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‘Power of Sail’: Fighting Nazis in the Ivy League (or inviting them in)
February 23, 2022This is truly what theater and the arts need to be doing now to educate, enlighten, and awaken.
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New book explores fear of Black consciousness—and who fears it
February 18, 2022Fear of Black Consciousness deserves to be carefully studied.
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‘Legacy of a Garage Band’: A bittersweet Chicano reminiscence of lost youth
February 17, 2022In many ways Legacy is a coming-of-age story.
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Georg Weerth, first poet of the German working class, on his bicentennial
February 16, 2022“Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet...” So wrote Frederick Engels in 1883 on his friend Georg Weerth, who came into the world 200 years ago.
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