Culture
‘Scraps’ co-star speaks out: An interview with Denise Yolén
September 10, 2019This is L.A. theatergoers’ last chance to see one of the year’s best dramas.
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‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog’ is now a quietly powerful Indigenous feature film
September 9, 2019The film has the aura of authenticity indelibly woven into its fiber.
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Beyond the music: Portugal’s Avante! festival combines culture and Marxist politics
September 9, 2019Its musical lineup could rival the profit-driven Coachella, but this jamboree is embedded with the spirit of resistance and anti-fascism.
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The art of ‘The Heal,’ Sophocles’s ‘Philoctetes’ in a Malibu amphitheater
September 6, 2019The production, performed in front of an ancient Roman-style villa that is a repository of relics wrought contemporaneously when Sophocles created his dramas, is suffused with philosophical musings.
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Peasant Bruegel: An appreciation of the Dutch realist painter
September 5, 2019His art represents the early stages, the progressive, indeed revolutionary, element of bourgeois realism.
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