arts and entertainment
‘Power & Light’ shows clash of genius between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla
April 4, 2024The play tracks more than half a century of inspiration and invention as we come to understand some of the intellectual processes that eventually took the world to the technological landscape we know today.
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The imperialist problem with ‘3 Body Problem’
April 3, 2024Netflix joins the cultural Cold War against China.
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‘The Bespoke Overcoat’: Gogol’s giggles, ghosts and class struggle
March 28, 2024A theatrical adaptation of “The Overcoat,” a short story written in 1842 by the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol, who along with Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Gorky is one of the most renowned contributors to Russian literature.
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Pan African Film Festival 2024: ‘Moments,’ ‘Maharlika,’ and ‘Black Best Friend’
March 21, 2024The L.A. premiere of writer/director Malachi Rivers’s Moments shatters stereotypes regarding African Americans in his 9-episode digital series of shorts that are each under 13 minutes long.
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Pan African Film Festival: ‘This is Lagos’
March 20, 2024Arguably the best thing about PAFF is that it provides U.S. theatergoers with the opportunity to see films about Mother Africa by Africans, from a decidedly continental perspective.
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