Culture
Avante! Festival at 50: Portuguese Communists celebrate five decades of democracy and struggle
September 8, 2026Hundreds of thousands of Communists, workers, youth, and their allies converged this past weekend for a grand gala of culture and politics.
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Poem: ‘Facts of Life’
August 13, 2026A poem on the facts of life, from love to class struggle.
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Motown music: Union-made in the U.S.A.
August 13, 2026Along with the auto industry, these songs put Detroit on the world map.
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Titian and the crisis of Renaissance humanism
August 12, 2026His long career coincides with and sheds light on the early capitalist era. Titian's revolutionary technique emerged in response to the pressures of commerce, war, political reaction and plague.
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‘Matt and Ben’ theater review: Ancient Greek and the absurd collide for clever comedy
August 11, 2026Aeschylus meets Beckett in the show biz Odyssey of Damon and Affleck.
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