Culture
‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’: Human connection a shield against fascism
April 10, 2023PASADENA, Calif. — Thrust together at an Argentine federal correctional complex, the notorious Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, two men of polar opposite persuasions occupy a common claustrophobic cell. The time is the Dirty War period...
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April screenings in L.A. honor the Hollywood Ten at 75
April 7, 2023Seventy-five years ago, Hollywood entered one of its bleakest periods.
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The Met stages Terence Blanchard’s opera ‘Champion’ about boxer Emile Griffith
April 6, 2023New York City’s Metropolitan Opera, housed at Lincoln Center, ranks among the highest and most sophisticated expressions of artistic culture in the United States. The company shares a global renown with the leading opera houses of...
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Work of renowned Indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson showcased at Nashville’s Frist Museum
April 5, 2023This ground-breaking exhibition is a call for Indigenous power, queer recognition, and environmental resistance to the carnage of profit-mad capitalist development.
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‘Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict’—book bridges divide between Marxists and Christians
April 4, 2023BOOK REVIEW: Marxists and people of faith continue to treat each other’s core texts with contempt or suspicion, making this book a daring (and sketchy) study.
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