Culture
‘Champion: An Opera in Jazz’ about boxer Emile Griffith, set for Montreal staging
January 22, 2019I can only hope that there will be funding in the near future to bring a production of this magnificent work to New York City, so I can see it again.
Read more‘Period. End of Sentence.’ Short documentary about menstruation and sanitary pads
January 18, 2019The film gives us scenes of awkward young women and men interviewed as to what they actually know about menstruation.
Read more‘Don’t Come Back From the Moon’: A lament for rural America
January 17, 2019The film is an adaptation of Bakopoulos’s first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon.
Read more‘1776 The Musical’ vocalizes the urgency of the Declaration of Independence
January 16, 2019Now is your chance to “be in the room where it actually happened,” Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, in the stiflingly hot months from May 8 to July 4, 1776.
Read moreEllen Perlo, 102; advocate for equality, peace, justice and socialism
January 14, 2019As young activists all those years ago we benefitted from her leadership. As seasoned veterans, we cherish her memory and try to live her legacy. As a human race, we are all better for having had...
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