arts and culture
Anti-union Philadelphia Museum of Art bosses fire workers, eliminate pay—for years
June 17, 2022The majority of museum staff were making less than $50,000 a year, and 90% were making less than $15 an hour in a high-cost city, and now they’re hit, like other workers, by rising inflation.
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‘Under the Banner of Heaven’: Hell on Earth
June 16, 2022Hulu’s new television series Under the Banner of Heaven is a powerful reconsideration of fundamentalist religion.
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‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ review: Cheeky comedy centers older women’s sex life
June 15, 2022Older women often appear on screen as mothers, aunts, or “wise” grandmothers whose purpose is to advise the younger (usually male) main character. This film says to hell with all that.
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‘A Brother’s Whisper’: A sobering epiphany of Black American life in America
June 15, 2022The film unfolds with an indivisible mixture of sobering reality and epiphany.
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‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ now a play in Los Angeles premiere
June 13, 2022It took years before this iconic film was turned into a stage play.
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