Retelling immigrant stories in East L.A., modern dance about opposites in Santa Monica, a Chinese duo debuts in San Marino, sampling Tchaikovsky ballets downtown, Russian ballet about a Russian ballerina in Costa Mesa, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. When opposites attract The relationship between opposites and story of four distinctive moons are the …
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With the way things are going, American humans need to be budget-minded when it comes to paying for healthcare. One way to cut costs is by employing animals. They don’t ask for much money, and there are no laws in place that force us to pay them. Some of them are even good with …
In the fall of 1971, while living in Rome, I received an offer that I couldn’t refuse. An American friend, Stuart Birnbaum, invited me to join him in Israel, where he was working as assistant director on a movie called Big Truck and Sister Clare, promising that I could also get work on this production. …
Dance is an ephemeral art form, at once temporal and subjective. Viewed live, an audience is uniquely aware of the stakes of each moment as it unfolds, the fact that regardless of the set choreography it will never be the same again. And the audience also knows on some level that they are partial contributors …
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Michael Mark is a hospice volunteer and author of two books of stories, Toba and At the Hands of a Thief (Atheneum). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, Cutthroat Journal, Harpur Palate, Paterson Literary Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Prelude Magazine, Rattle, Spillway, The Sun, Tahoma Literary Review, Sugar …
It really doesn’t matter that we don’t know exactly when playwright and human rights activist Lorraine Hansberry wrote her play Les Blancs. We know that it was the last play that she wrote before she died at 34, leaving behind several almost finished drafts of Les Blancs that her ex-husband (and executor), Robert Nemiroff, finished based …
Last summer, the Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park Series unsuccessfully imposed a modern feminist slant on Taming of the Shrew by employing an all-woman cast. This year, they’ve launched the 2017 season with another contemporary take on one of the Bard’s classics with transgender casting, but this time the updating and non traditional …
Cultural Weekly’s Jack Grapes Poetry Prize opens on June 29th, 2017 We will publish the submission URL and information on June 29th. No submissions will be accepted before that date. Cash prizes of $250 for first place, $150 for second place, and $100 for third place, including publication in Cultural Weekly. In addition, five finalists …
How my brother and the “homeland” stole my mother from me. * The day I realized that my brother had gone beyond annoying manipulations — from a garden variety mooch veering into possibly criminal, but definitely unethical territory — was the day this past October at my mother’s home in China, when I sat down with three year old …
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