Los Angeles
California’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.
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‘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...
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Oliver 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.
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‘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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The roots of the Los Angeles housing crisis
March 20, 2024Millions of government dollars that could have built public housing were refused. Instead, the city’s rulers chose suburbs and highways.
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