Culture
Amazing Aretha: L.A.’s Black community and others gracefully honor Queen of Soul
September 10, 2018LOS ANGELES—Hollywood is known around the world as a “company town” for the motion picture industry and television, but Los Angeles is also a music mecca. In January 1972, Aretha Franklin recorded the live album “Amazing...
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‘Sweat,’ an unsentimental collective portrait of a working class in retreat
September 7, 2018This is not “feel-good” theatre, but it is down-and-out real, sinewy, rough and true. It shouldn’t be missed.
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‘Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations’ thrills L.A.
September 7, 2018The indisputable talent of both the actual Temptations and the performers in Ain't Too Proud is indescribably exhilarating.
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Actor Geoffrey Owens thankful for support about grocery store job
September 6, 2018Owens stressed that “every job is worthwhile and valuable … there is no job that’s better than another."
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Dissident Arts Festival benefits families of political prisoners, celebrates free expression
September 5, 2018The showcase of revolutionary creativity, will occur on stages in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Manhattan’s East Village on two forthcoming nights.
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