November 2, 2016

Cultural Weekly

2016 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize Contest: Winners

Cultural Weekly empowers creativity only because it is empowered by you. This piece featuring the winners of the Jack Grapes Poetry Contest  was originally published last month – October 2016.  It is one of 100 reasons why we ask you to support our efforts. By considering a tax-deductible donation to support our collective cultural conversations. Thank …

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Into the Future

When Science is Wrong, It’s Okay to Change Your Mind.

[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] Following @Mashable’s #SocialGood Conference, I was ready to form a social enterprise to right everything wrong with the world. Speakers from Vice President Joe Biden, one of the forces behind the cancer moonshot, to Jean Case, a tireless …

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British Egos, Liaisons, and Vietgone

[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] Two current Off-Broadway productions provide a 70-year historic overview of narcissistic British behavior and the decline of that country from admirable empire to self-absorbed ruin. David Hare’s 1978 Plenty at the Public traces the crack-up of the  country …

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Underdone: A Nature Comic

Dinovember

Happy Dinovember! What better way to deal with the final week of this agonizing election than to imagine living millions of years before it existed? While some people think about mustaches (for Movember) other people think about dinosaurs—for an entire month! Here are some of my thoughts about the extinct beasts. All of these musings use the most cutting-edge science, …

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Barak Ballet Messing with NASA’s Mars Rover

[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] This week’s L.A, dance events include pregnant choreographers in Lincoln Heights, L.A. Contemporary Dance Company in Atwater Village, fierce female deities downtown, dancing for donations in Canoga Park, Lucinda Childs’ retrospective at UCLA, Donna Sternberg in Culver City, …

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