Culture
“When God Sleeps”: An Iranian musician critiques his society
April 2, 2018Till Schaudner’s new documentary When God Sleeps is a robust, thoughtful account of punk rocker Shahin Najafi’s struggle to have his music and ideas heard despite death threats from the Iranian government.
Read more‘Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe’ recalls Chicano movement in East L.A.
April 2, 2018Los Lobos may have had its most successful tune in “Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe,” and now you can experience a remount of a musical play by that name that features Los Lobos songs as performed...
Read moreBeing a Black entertainment creator in the era of ‘Black Panther’
March 30, 2018Such a topic was grappled with at a recent panel at the annual WonderCon convention. The panel, “Blacks in Entertainment: Designing for the Culture” discussed the topic of “what next” for Black workers in the industry,...
Read moreHopeless in Gaza? A talk with scholar Norman Finkelstein
March 29, 2018“The nadir of the Palestinian struggle is now,” says distinguished but controversial scholar Norman G. Finkelstein.
Read more‘Bingo Hall’: To leave or stay on the reservation?
March 27, 2018Precious time is spent on material that goes nowhere, while much else goes unexplored.
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