Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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News
California seniors empowered: Medicare and Social Security on the ballot in November
September 20, 2024The convention of the California Alliance for Retired Americans shows that seniors have the power to play a significant role in the 2024 elections.
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Culture
Thornton Wilder’s ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’: About the tenacity to keep going
September 19, 2024The adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth hits the stage at a relevant time in human history.
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Books
Barbara Dane’s autobiography, a testament to a life of struggle and song
September 16, 2024Movement singer and organizer Barbara Dane has written an autobiography that is a wild ride through the 20th century.
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Culture
Socialist Sudoku – Nothing weird about this one
September 13, 2024A new puzzle for our readers.
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Culture
Two Civil War plays, two civil wars: ‘TH IR DS’ and ‘Civility of Albert Cashier’
September 11, 2024What if the South had won the Civil War?
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Culture
‘God Will Do the Rest’ introduces an idiosyncratic Filipino American immigrant family
September 11, 2024From his clever and wise writing in last year’s The Bottoming Process, I could tell Nicholas Pilapil would be one playwright to watch.
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Culture
‘Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price’ available on new album
September 10, 2024Last year, a hardworking music publicist alerted me to a rare performance of Damien Geter’s spirituals-based Justice Symphony up in Fresno, paired with Beethoven’s 9th, and I took the bait.
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Culture
‘Filthy Laundry’: Intersectional union organizing in California’s 1970s Central Valley
September 4, 2024Not many longtime community activists for labor and civil rights, and for basic democratic rights, and who analyze political trends as a volunteer journalist for People’s World, take the time to write for the stage. But...
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