Culture
Scholars mark milestones along past utopian roads to the future
April 27, 2018One had to smile with a certain sense of bemused indulgence at some tongue-twisting, mind-bending lecture titles that university folk like to devise.
Read moreMontgomery, Alabama: New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims
April 26, 2018The museum explores the eras of enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow to mass incarceration and modern criminal justice issues that are the focus of the Equal Justice Initiative's legal work. Several of the organization's clients are featured,...
Read more‘Ameryka’: a thrilling play about 250 years of American and Polish history
April 26, 2018Ameryka is a moving, educational piece of theatre that is highly watchable both for its freshly nonlinear content and its ingenious stagecraft.
Read more‘Gehenna’: Horror film uses the supernatural to show terrors of colonialism and war
April 25, 2018Set in Saipan, the new horror flick "Gehenna" turns the Hollywood trope of "magical natives" on its head.
Read moreParticular or universal? ‘Bad Jews’ dramatizes an old cultural and religious dilemma
April 25, 2018In the brutally, savagely dark comedy Bad Jews, now playing at the Odyssey Theatre, playwright Joshua Harmon puts a contemporary spin on a very old question that haunts any community that seeks to preserve its culture...
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