Culture
Anti-Trump artists’ group rides again in short films
November 22, 2017ARULA has moved to the film front, with a Short Film Festival at L.A. Downtown Independent, an outpost of indie cinema.
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Clashes of class and culture at L.A.’s Encuentro theater festival
November 22, 2017Encuentro has brought the Vueltas Bravas theater company from Bogotá, Colombia, in its staging of Miss Julia adapted by J. Ed Araiza, directed by Lorenzo Montanini.
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Growth and change for the Wende Museum of the Cold War
November 21, 2017Founded in 2002 and housed for the past 12 years in an out-of-the-way office park elsewhere in Culver City, where only a small percentage of its collections could be displayed, the Wende Museum has just moved...
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“Quest”: Save the world, start with the family
November 20, 2017In a sea of save-the-world super heroes, Quest offers us the real thing—a working-class family that stares down 21st-century adversity and challenge to cobble together community.
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Jazz in Dominican Republic focuses on Brazil
November 20, 2017This year’s Dominican Republic Jazz Festival took the internationalization of jazz as its theme. Brazil was featured on this concert, ably represented by the Trio da Paz.
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