Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Richard Falk speaks on Israel and the question of apartheid
February 9, 2018Falk insisted it is only correct to look at the Palestinians as a coherent people, wherever they live, and not provide tacit consent to the fragmentation both geographical and political to which Israel has subjected them.
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We who would be king: Gilbert and Sullivan’s utopian “The Gondoliers”
February 7, 2018While all of Gilbert & Sullivan’s work pointedly skewers the British class and caste system with a poison-tipped pen, none goes quite so far as The Gondoliers in actually offering a blueprint for the classless society.
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How Donald Trump killed hope for a Palestinian state
February 2, 2018Trump’s Jerusalem decision shattered the path to peace and killed any hope for a Palestinian state, setting Israel-Palestine on a short path to fully realized apartheid.
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“The Chinese Wall”: A 1946 satire on the futility of wall building
January 30, 2018Like the IWW’s Little Red Book of songs, it aims to “fan the flames of discontent” with wit and righteous anger, and move a mute audience toward action.
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Harold Pinter’s dark comedy “The Hothouse” menacingly amuses in L.A.
January 29, 2018The acting is ace, the material challenging, the production rare.
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“Django”: A world-renowned jazz musician in wartime
January 26, 2018This new feature captures a few months in the life of world-famous Belgian-French Gypsy jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt.
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‘There’s nothing automatic about determination’: L.A. labor federation honors MLK
January 24, 2018The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO held its annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Breakfast at the Convention Center.
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Power to the Polls: “First we march, now we run”
January 22, 2018“Our movement will not advance unless we all walk together to the finish line.”
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