Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Arts
“Great Scott” in San Diego: Opera is dead! Long live opera!
May 10, 2016Great Scott is a grand modern send-up of every imaginable operatic cliché and tradition: It's a hoot and a half!
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Labor
Verizon strike attracts support in Southern California
May 6, 2016The largest such labor action in the U.S. in many years, the strike by Verizon workers taking on corporate greed is now in its fourth week.
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Opinion
American-Russian analyst laments the new Cold War
April 29, 2016American-born Justin Lifflander, graduate of Cornell University, arrived in Russia (then the USSR) in 1987 as a driver-mechanic for the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
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Arts
“Ramona”: California history at the intersection of Native, Spanish and white
April 28, 2016This outdoor pageant, a broad-based community project, has been playing here for 93 years and counting.
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Environment
This week in history: Chernobyl nuclear reactor explodes in USSR
April 26, 2016Thirty years ago, on April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl atomic power station at Pripyat.
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Arts
The power of music: Alexander the Great and Handel in wartime
April 20, 2016Handel composed Alexander's Feast in early 1736; it became one of his most popular and most often revived works during his lifetime.
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Arts
Stunning theatre about super-exploited restaurant workers
April 19, 2016Molina keeps the rapid-fire, crackerjack dialogue calibrated to his split-second timing, recreating the hustle of a busy restaurant that diners never imagine.
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Arts
Time for a fresh look at the “colliding dreams” of Zionism
April 15, 2016"Colliding Dreams" is a new documentary film about the ever more hotly debated subject of Zionism.
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