arts and entertainment
‘Better Call Saul’: The fading middle class in a ‘Breaking Bad’ universe
June 21, 2022The Breaking Bad universe has established a template for languishing, but never challenging, diminishing expectations as the American “universe” itself shrinks globally.
Read more‘Under the Banner of Heaven’: Hell on Earth
June 16, 2022Hulu’s new television series Under the Banner of Heaven is a powerful reconsideration of fundamentalist religion.
Read more‘A Brother’s Whisper’: A sobering epiphany of Black American life in America
June 15, 2022The film unfolds with an indivisible mixture of sobering reality and epiphany.
Read moreSpain’s celebrated Kulunka Teatro stuns L.A. with lyrical, wordless ‘André & Dorine’
June 10, 2022I missed it when Spain’s celebrated Kulunka Teatro visited L.A. before, but it’s back now and should not be missed!
Read moreThe other Truman Show: ‘Tru,’ the fluke in his domain
June 9, 2022Jamie Galen’s uncanny incarnation of Truman Capote in the first act of Tru is a must-see tour de force.
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