Culture
Remembering Father Rutilio Grande of El Salvador
March 5, 2020I remember that day: During the night, the army conducted a massacre in the center of our capital, San Salvador. I witnessed the crew of workers cleaning up the spilled blood in the morning.
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Nicaragua mourns death of revolutionary priest Ernesto Cardinal
March 3, 2020Nicaragua is in mourning for revolutionary priest, poet and former Sandinista government minister Ernesto Cardenal, who died on Sunday aged 95.
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‘Requiem: This Earth, Our Home’: A high school chorus tackles climate change
March 3, 2020An imposing mass of 85 students from the Van Nuys High School choirs, ranging from freshmen to seniors, sang with a 17-piece orchestra, all but two of them student musicians. Fourteen students had solo parts singing...
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‘Show Me a Hero’: Greek tragedy and valor from A to Z
March 2, 2020What I loved about playwright Willard Manus’s Show Me a Hero is that it introduced me to Greek freedom fighter Alexandros Panagoulis, a significant historical figure I’d never heard of, and brought back to life the...
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‘The Invisible Man’ review: Classic update incorporates horrors of domestic violence
February 28, 2020In a time when many horror films play on what jumps out of the darkness, this film leans more into making your brain wonder what is standing in the darkness that you may never see.
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