Character Mitch Larsen, “The Killing” Sunday evenings in high school, I attended youth services at a local evangelical church. One Sunday, I tagged along on a post-worship excursion to the…
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Cold Light (detail): site-specific installation, hand-cut wallpaper, video by Summer J. Hart. Image courtesy of the artist, used by permission. Confined to my Bermuda home thanks to a deadly microbe,…
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ArtCulturePerformance“As If It Were Part of Breathing”: An Interview with Theatre Artist Leigh Kennicott
Film and television dominate the arts in Los Angeles, but L.A. has a thriving theatre culture that hasn’t received the attention the New York stage commands. Even during the pandemic,…
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NICK EARHART lives in Pasadena, California, near Allendale Park. He is writing a dissertation on art, infrastructure, and urban space, and he also likes to draw and play guitar.…
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I. You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun It is difficult to discuss Fiona’s craft without also discussing the unrelenting interest in her trauma, her mental illness, her…
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Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome A few years ago I discovered the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD and the Royal Opera House’s Live Cinema Season programs, which revolutionized my enjoyment of opera.…
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How has the pandemic has changed theater, aside from the obvious fact that live audiences are currently forbidden? At this point it’s impossible for plays to rehearse. People cannot gather…
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“Hands,” Leonardo Rizzi, Creative Commons When I attended Mass Before, the priest told us a few things: 1) If we were taking Communion, we could not allow the officiants to…
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“AIDS is not over, sickness will never be over, care will always be needed. Moving towards justice means learning how to care from the past and present going forward.” –…
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IVY HUONG NGUYEN was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, and immigrated to America with her family at the age of 10. She is currently…
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still from the film Rosas Danst Rosas, directed by Stefaan Decostere These days everyone in my life seems to have an obsession: wormeries, reusable tissues, queer Tinder bios in rural…
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ArtCultureFilmA Black Feminist’s Response to Trump’s Question: “Can We Get Gone with the Wind Back, Please?”
The novel and film Gone with the Wind is a huge footnote in the history of America’s Jim Crow era. Among its main characters are Ashley Wilkes, once a southern…
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“Homebound” (from GENU, Vol 1) GENU is a 5-part literary sci-fi graphic novel series written by Tommaso Todesca, Alex Franquelli, and Giulio Srubek Tomassy, illustrated by Aleksandra Fastovets, and…
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