arts and culture
Lights! Cameras! Action! Academy Museum features Hollywood history, hoopla and inclusivity
October 1, 2021The Motion Picture Academy’s latest creation is walking a tightrope, mixing showbiz pizzazz with world cinema and a reflectiveness on the medium’s origins and power.
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‘Songs in Dark Times’: Yiddish poets engage mid-20th century crises and traumas
October 1, 2021What do we even mean when we use a simple word like “we?” We Jews? We survivors? We anti-fascists? We people of social conscience? We humans?
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‘I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce’: Ronnie Marmo channels the standup philosopher
September 30, 2021As a standup comic with a philosophical slant, Lenny was a pre-Social Media forerunner of the free speech cause.
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‘Our Man in Santiago’: A comedy about the overthrow of Salvador Allende?
September 28, 2021A "comic spy thriller inspired by the true story of a spectacularly botched U.S. attempt to overthrow Chile’s democratically elected leader.”
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Caravaggio at 450: A maverick Realist painter in the Baroque era
September 27, 2021Caravaggio is most frequently considered a Baroque artist. How true is this?
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