Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
This week: The cry of the Canaanites is heard at Passover
April 10, 2017“Can we transform the dream of a Promised Land into the reality of a land that is truly promised to all?”
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Opinion
Stuart Timmons, radical gay historian, memorialized in L.A.
April 5, 2017Friends gathered this past Sunday at the ONE Archive, the largest LGBTQ collection of books and papers in the world, to remember Stuart, his life, his work, his radical commitment, his humor and wisdom. Timmons died...
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Culture
New film is a double portrait of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne
March 28, 2017The film examines how two friends on vastly different social levels were able to maintain their association, and ultimately what came between them.
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Culture
“Building the Wall,” resisting home-grown fascism through theatre
March 24, 2017It’s a rough-going 80 minutes but well worth the investment if it leads to greater effort to dismantle the incipient apparatus of fascism in America.
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Arts
“Fairly Traceable”: Legal doctrine vs. indigenous people and environment
March 22, 2017The play accomplishes all it sets out to do: Tell a relevant story with complex characters, compelling internal, romantic, political, and legal conflicts, and a potent message.
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Arts
“Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo” with hearing and deaf actors
March 20, 2017The evening pairs the playwright’s groundbreaking, career-making, just under an hour-long 1959 play The Zoo Story with a 70-minute first act, the prequel Homelife.
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Arts
“The Cruise”: An onboard socio-political world premiere comedy
March 20, 2017"Perhaps this maiden voyage of the play should more properly be seen as a workshop production. The Cruise has promise but needs further work."
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U.S.
This week in history: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 20, 2017"The existence of racial barriers is repugnant to the ideals of any human society.”
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