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A rogue’s gallery of presidential satire served up at popular L.A. marketplace
June 25, 2024LOS ANGELES — Here we are mid-2024 and nothing is more welcome in this tense election year than a bit of humor and irreverence. Center for the Study of Political Graphics’ exhibition Presidential Rogue’s Gallery: Satirical...
Read moreCalifornia’s campus peace activists aim to stop the war on Gaza
June 17, 2024Students and workers on campus, with rolling strikes, demand an end to funding of the Israeli war machine.
Read more‘Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy’ in world premiere
May 22, 2024“Mix-Mix” is an English translation of “Halo-Halo,” a dessert that’s a mixture of jellies, tapioca pearls, fruit, beans, corn, shaved ice, condensed milk and ice cream—an appropriate metaphor for the mixed cultures that came together as...
Read moreOliver Mayer’s ‘Ghost Waltz’ about Indigenous Mexican composer Juventino Rosas receives world premiere
May 7, 2024The story is an important one, and it is told with great imagination and a wonderful score of waltzes, polkas, classical song, opera and ragtime.
Read more‘H*tler’s Tasters’: Four young women waiting for Adolf in expressionistic, absurdist play
April 30, 2024LOS ANGELES – Written by Los Angeles playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks, the uninterrupted genre-defying 85-minute play H*tler’s Tasters opened April 27, and I was eager to see it. Brooks reimagines the historical protocol at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair...
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