Lori A. Zimmerman
LATEST ARTICLES BY Lori A. Zimmerman
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Culture
Crime novelist Dennis Broe recounts Hollywood’s 1950s ‘Dark Ages’ and lessons for now
February 26, 2025The Dark Ages by Dennis Broe is a noir murder mystery. It’s about a time when people with money influenced people with political power to restructure the United States economy for their own benefit.
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Arts
A rogue’s gallery of presidential satire served up at popular L.A. marketplace
June 25, 2024
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Culture
Dennis Broe’s ‘The House That Buff Built,’ latest in L.A. noir crime fiction
January 11, 2024The House That Buff Built by Dennis Broe is the fourth in a series of Harry Palmer mysteries set in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Culture
‘Tacos La Brooklyn’ centers cultural identity: Who appreciates and who appropriates?
October 6, 2023The playwright asks us to examine our view of family, interracial dynamics, cultural appropriation, gentrification, and the pros and cons of the street venture scene all the while immersing us in a distinctly Los Angeles social...
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Culture
Queer theater thrives in L.A.: Two plays reviewed, one historic, one historical
June 22, 2023Underlying all identity politics is the right to live life authentically, unharmed and respected in the broader society.
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