arts and entertainment
A small but mighty IATSE organizing drive pops up in Beverly Hills
December 16, 2021Workers at The Wallis won a union representation vote, but management has yet to recognize it or even agree on who is eligible to be the unit—supervisors, part-timers?
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‘Good People’: Some are better than you think, others a whole lot worse
December 14, 2021The “good people” of the title are those who subjectively earn that title by some combination of lineage, class, morals and behavior. But it’s a shape-shifting concept.
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Two new CDs about life in America
December 2, 2021It’s almost as if the impulse to keep singing is what keeps us alive—and maybe it’s true.
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‘Normal People’: Love among the ruins
November 29, 2021Rooney et al have created a masterpiece.
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‘Paradise Blue’ evokes 1949 Detroit and early wave of gentrification
November 24, 2021Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau takes us back to 1949 in Paradise Blue.
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