Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘Neil Simon’s Musical Fools’: Everybody plays one sometime, right?
October 16, 2019It is so boisterously silly and good-hearted, and suitable for all audiences, that it is truly worth seeing in times that need a little comic relief.
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‘The Abuelas’ unpacks repercussions of child kidnapping in Argentina’s Dirty War
October 15, 2019“If you have doubts about your identity, contact Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.” So read billboards across today’s Argentina.
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‘Emanuel’ recounts tragic 2015 murders in Charleston and radical Christian forgiveness
October 11, 2019The tragic incident on June 17, 2015, blazed to the top of the news: A 21-year-old white supremacist named Dylan Roof calmly entered the door to Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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‘A Kid Like Jake’: Parents grapple with gender expansive expression
October 9, 2019The acting is highly credible: Anyone who has been in an intimate relationship will recognize both the zenith and the nadir of emotions that we see here.
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‘Through Positive Eyes’ lifts up the work of HIV/AIDS ‘artivists’
October 8, 2019These HIV-positive artivists will continue to share their images and personal narratives in direct dialogue with museum goers.
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‘Sisters in Law’ honors first two women on Supreme Court
October 1, 2019There’s no question about it. The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts has truly become a Westside L.A. destination for culture.
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Jewish Americans and Israel/Palestine: Pressures and fissures heading toward 2020
September 30, 2019The idea of a return to Biblical Zion has been perverted into an idolization of land acquisition by any means in Israel, but Jewish Americans don't want to be pressured into complicity with Israel’s deeds.
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Outrage and lawsuits arise from Trump’s attempt to ban emissions control
September 20, 2019Without conscientious emissions controls, those “JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!” Trump talks about are going to be “GONE, GONE, GONE!”
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