English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Cultural Weekly's Top 10 Stories of 2013
You, dear Cultural Weekly readers, are responsible for this list. Hope you are happy with it. We know we are.
Day: December 11, 2013
Everyone You Could Possibly Want in 'August: Osage County'
If you love acting, this film is the holiday gift for you.
Remembering Mandela, with Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ladysmith Black Mambazo rose to international fame when they collaborated with Paul Simon on the album Graceland, but the group originated twenty years earlier, in the middle 1960s. Their unique name comes from “Ladysmith,” the hometown of the group’s founder, Joseph Shabalala; the black ox, the ubiquitous farming animal in that district; and “mambazo,” the …
Remembering Mandela, with Ladysmith Black Mambazo Read More »
Candy ChangCulture: So What?!?
Culture is in the details and the reason a place will stay with you forever.
Heidelberg Project Crowdfund Art from the Ashes: Securing a Legacy
Let’s help protect this amazing public space.
Making Creativity, One Table or Chair at a Time
One of the things I think about every day—partly because it’s about most of the work I do, but mostly because I always want to understand the why of everything—is creativity. What draws us to it? Why does it give us the kind of self-propulsion and satisfaction that, excluding the emotions of deep love, nothing …
Poetry.LA Interview: Wanda Coleman
In what we imagine is one of her last interviews, if not the last, the late, great Wanda Coleman sat down with professor and poet Mariano Zaro, a remarkable poet in his own right, to talk about her life and her work. There are times we dismiss an artist like Wanda Coleman by saying she …
A Year of Alchemy
Seasons are changing even in our city. Yes, actual seasons in LA. There’s a bit of a cold snap. I feel it on my hands when I’m walking around early morning taking photos. I was thinking that this was actually my 52nd post on Literary Alchemy. Then I searched through Cultural Weekly and realized I’d …