Born a few years before the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, Bunkong Tuon remembered very little of the atrocities committed under Pol Pol rule. He left with his grandmother and extended family for refugee camps in Thailand in 1979, and grew up in Malden, Massachusetts in the 1980s. He is Associate Professor of …
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The Arts District, a three square mile area, abuts the downtown business district on the west and the Los Angeles River on the east. More specifically, its official city planning board boundaries are: Alameda Street on the west which blends into Little Tokyo, First Street on the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and …
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[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] I met her in the early 1970s. Her husband, Dan Sullivan, the theatre critic of the Los Angeles Times, had just hired me to work with him at the Times’ theatre desk. It was the early days, I …
Dave Newman is the author of five books, including The Poem Factory (White Gorilla Press, 2015), the novels Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children (Writers Tribe Books, 2012) and Two Small Birds (Writers Tribe Books, 2014), and the collection The Slaughterhouse Poems (White Gorilla Press, 2013), named one of the best books of the …
[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] I found myself lost in Maze, the super cool short created by Choreographer Sophie Laplane and Director/Editor/ Cinematographer Eve McConnachie, while responding to a friend request on FB where I saw it posted and it immediately caught my …
[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] Meow and forever, Cats is back. After a smash London premiere, the original NYC production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s feline phenomenon became the fourth-longest running show in Broadway history, inspiring devoted loyalty among fans and disdain among naysayers. …
The focus of this week’s crowdfund project is on an amazing person about to work on an amazing and necessary project. We met Franny Garcia when she was still at UCLA, getting her degree and working as staff on the historic UCLA publication, Westwind. Now she’s off to Columbia University where she will be starting …
The focus of this week’s crowdfund project is on an amazing person about to work on an amazing and necessary project. We met Franny Garcia when she was still at UCLA, getting her degree and working as staff on the historic UCLA publication, Westwind. Now she’s off to Columbia University where she will be starting …
[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] Opera and theater merge and meld in two offerings at this summer’s Glimmerglass Music Festival in Cooperstown, NY. Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1979 Broadway bloodbath Sweeney Todd receives a confused staging while Robert Ward’s 1961 operatic adaptation …
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Art is supposed to remind us our lives matter. Our failures, if we own them, can become our truths. Art is supposed to be a mirror, however distorted. But too often, in poetry, the lives that matter most become corpses or, worse, dust. I’m talking about the lives most of us — the silent majorities …
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