Culture
Musical social history at Encuentro, L.A. Latino theatre festival
November 8, 2017Encuentro de las Américas! We’ve just started an 18-day “encounter” of 14 theater companies from around the U.S. and from Canada, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico, all at downtown’s Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) through November...
Read moreRefugees in Toronto: Reporting from the international film festival
November 8, 2017Two master filmmakers have again addressed the issue of immigration and refugees and the tragic toll it takes on nations and the immigrants themselves. Both films were featured at the Toronto International Film Festival and they...
Read moreThis week in history: Centennial of the October Revolution in Russia
November 6, 2017This week we publish the poem “October” by Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof (or Mariengof in Russian), who lived from 1897 to 1962.
Read moreEisenstein’s “Ten Days That Shook the World” screens in L.A.
November 3, 2017As the grand finale to the Ten Films That Shook the World film series , the Los Angeles Workers Center and Hollywood Progressive present Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 revolutionary classic.
Read moreReclaiming Gotham: New York’s Bill de Blasio and urban American politics
November 3, 2017Veteran Latino journalist Juan Gonzalez presents a basically optimistic view not only of New York City’s recent progress, but also that of many other American cities.
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