arts and culture
More Palestine features at Toronto International Film Festival
November 16, 2023As the horror continues and multiplies in Palestine/Gaza, we are all busy trying to arm ourselves with as many historical facts as possible to try to understand the complicated history of the Middle East.
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AFI FEST 2023: Four capsule reviews
November 6, 2023Four film reviews from AFI Fest.
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Reena Esmail and Philip Glass: Musical movers of heaven and earth
October 23, 2023Los Angeles Master Chorale is laudably not just about the grand old masterpieces of massed voices, but also about new music with the capacity to speak to today’s audiences.
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POETRY: Open the books!
October 18, 2023"What is that you say? That you, who built your empire off the sweat of our labor, cannot afford to keep us on at union wages?"
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‘The War on Disco’: Winners and losers in 1970s American culture
October 16, 2023As long as there has been culture, there have been cultural wars. Whenever there have been differences between individuals or groups within society, there has been a battle of ideas, styles, language, narrative, dress, and entertainment.
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