Richard Brody’s November 28, 2017 review “The Empty, Sanitized Intimacy of ‘Call Me by Your Name’” is an exercise in morbid vengeance. Although he has nothing particularly good to say about anyone associated with the film, the main focus of his venom appears to be director Luca Guadagnino. It offers, in theory, a sort of …
I used to have a poster of Andy Warhol’s Double Elvis in my bedroom as a teenager. I did, of course, have other posters that were less sophisticated – Tom Carrol surfing, Tony Hawke skating – but Warhol, or Elvis, had pride of place above my bed. In the poster, Elvis stands legs akimbo, a …
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Imani Tolliver is a poet, artist, and educator. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and served as Poet Laureate for the Watts Towers Arts Center. Tolliver is a recipient of the Avest Award for Literary Arts, the Howard University John J. Wright Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She …
This is an excerpt from The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) interview between Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn and Imani Tolliver. Read here in its entirety. [alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] *** JANICE RHOSHALLE LITTLEJOHN: Some of the pieces in this collection were previously published, …
How do we regard the positive achievements of some men even as we confront sexual improprieties?
Twelve years ago, having come, at retirement age, to a multiple parting of the ways with academic career and marital experiments, I felt the need to make the point, to figure it out if at all possible. Facing today the normal final years of life I wish to share, with the upcoming Next Echo generation, …
It seemed like the perfect set-up. A political comedy-drama written by the creator of Netflix’s House of Cards starring the elegant Oscar nominee Uma Thurman in her Broadway debut. That’s why it’s a pity that The Parisian Woman, the first major Broadway show to tackle the Trump administration, is such contrived claptrap. Listed in the …
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On workdays I eat burritos at a café in Downtown Los Angeles. The staff knows my lunch routine: combo with a diet coke, add one sugar cookie. They also know my jale . . . I’m the customer who works for “the city” and “inspects buildings in South Central L.A.”. I like their succinct characterization …
Experimental dance downtown, two dancers duke it out in Santa Monica, dance explained in Sylmar, the three top Nuts in town plus more SoCal dance this week. 5. Cutting an edge This edition of the quarterly REDCAT Studio includes movement and dance from Shaina Lynn Simmons/Afro Futuro, Physical Plastic, Gary Reagan + Genna Moroni and more. REDCAT, 631 …
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