Culture
‘The First Purge’: A horror movie terrifyingly close to reality
July 3, 2018Sometimes movies are terrifying not for their monsters and ghouls, but because they hold up a mirror to the atrocities of our reality.
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Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles takes a knee
July 3, 2018A ten-year landmark has just passed in this city. Only a few thousand people took notice of it, but wow, did they stand up and cheer!
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‘Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America’
July 2, 2018Clearly not meant to be “read like a novel,” as a work of scholarship in a field of profound interest to radicals, it merits a worthy place on your shelf.
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Interracial unity ends discriminatory ‘Mexican Day’ at L.A.’s Bimini Baths
June 27, 2018It was a gift to experience this trilogy in all its historical, cultural and artful depth.
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‘Slaughter City’: Class struggle meets ‘Twilight Zone’
June 27, 2018This proletarian drama has a vibe similar to HBO’s Westworld series: Although its flesh and blood assembly line laborers are no androids, they are indeed all-too-human.
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