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Manuel Tiago’s ‘Eulalia’s House’: A powerful reminder of fascism’s ever-present danger
November 10, 2022Álvaro Cunhal offers a gripping retelling of the war against fascism in Spain from the vantage point of Portuguese partisans fighting alongside the Spanish Republicans.
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Decades after Berlin Wall fell, Cold War victors still trashing East Germany
November 9, 2022The GDR, as the old East Germany was officially known, was a lot more than the totalitarian prop paraded out during anniversaries to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.
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George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’: A study in working-class literature
November 9, 2022Highlighted at the award ceremony was “his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.”
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The fight to save affirmative action is a fight to save democracy
November 3, 2022Republicans chip away at democracy at the ballot box; right-wing Supreme Court justices do it from the bench.
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Dazzling opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera premieres in San Diego
November 3, 2022Fifteen years in the making, the new opera is a stunner, gorgeously produced, lovingly performed.
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