Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘The Sacred Veil’ opens hearts to the poignancy of death and loss
February 22, 2019Every culture has its ways of honoring the sacredness of life—and of death.
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‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ treats disability, poverty, cruelty with dark humor
February 21, 2019I found myself not understanding every word uttered, but after a while not caring, for McDonagh clearly finds joy purely in the gift of language itself.
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Teachers win victory for public education in L.A. strike settlement
January 23, 2019The strike began on Mon., Jan. 14, and lasted all that week through four days of steady rain until the skies cleared on Fri.
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Walking and talking with L.A. teachers on strike
January 23, 2019Angelenos are a lot wiser now as to what they’re up against—nothing less than the destruction and selloff of our public ownership of schools.
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‘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.
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‘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.
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L.A. students back teachers; won’t let billionaires kill public education
January 17, 2019The kids at Hamilton High have a message: Student need over corporate greed!
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‘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.
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