arts and entertainment
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!
Read more‘Soft Power’ imagines a Broadway musical under future Chinese hegemony
May 29, 2018It’s a fresh kind of show, open to interpretation, that makes us think self-reflectively about the entire history of the musical and its power to shape human consciousness.
Read moreThis week in history: Remembering folk personality Utah Phillips (1935-2008)
May 21, 2018This week marks ten years since the passing of renowned and beloved folk singer, storyteller, poet and recording artist known as "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest.”
Read moreLong Beach Opera offers a different (and shorter) Tristan and Isolde story
May 17, 2018What Richard Wagner does in five hours, Swiss composer Frank Martin does in under two.
Read moreGood when she’s bad: Bawdy bard Mae West’s ‘Sex’ appeals
May 16, 2018In our more enlightened age, like the immortal Mae West herself, you too, will enjoy Sex. Why don’t you come up and see it sometime?
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