Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
World premiere of ‘A Good Guy’ confronts the epidemic of gun violence
September 23, 2024“Whenever someone declares that the best way to stop a school shooter is to arm teachers, I can tell that they haven’t spoken to any teachers about it,” says playwright David Rambo.
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News
California seniors empowered: Medicare and Social Security on the ballot in November
September 20, 2024The convention of the California Alliance for Retired Americans shows that seniors have the power to play a significant role in the 2024 elections.
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Culture
Thornton Wilder’s ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’: About the tenacity to keep going
September 19, 2024The adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth hits the stage at a relevant time in human history.
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Books
Barbara Dane’s autobiography, a testament to a life of struggle and song
September 16, 2024Movement singer and organizer Barbara Dane has written an autobiography that is a wild ride through the 20th century.
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Culture
Socialist Sudoku – Nothing weird about this one
September 13, 2024A new puzzle for our readers.
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Culture
Two Civil War plays, two civil wars: ‘TH IR DS’ and ‘Civility of Albert Cashier’
September 11, 2024What if the South had won the Civil War?
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Culture
‘God Will Do the Rest’ introduces an idiosyncratic Filipino American immigrant family
September 11, 2024From his clever and wise writing in last year’s The Bottoming Process, I could tell Nicholas Pilapil would be one playwright to watch.
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Culture
‘Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price’ available on new album
September 10, 2024Last year, a hardworking music publicist alerted me to a rare performance of Damien Geter’s spirituals-based Justice Symphony up in Fresno, paired with Beethoven’s 9th, and I took the bait.
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