What I Remember, This Morning So much has happened since my eyes opened at eight o’clock and my arrival at this restaurant. But I’m forgetting most of it because this carrot bread couldn’t be any more legitimate. I know for sure my mouth opened and the carrot bread went inside. I have a vague memory …
As my Netflix Rolling Thunder Revue video disappeared from my computer screen, I smiled and said to myself, “After all, this is a great country!” Hard to believe in the era of Donald Trump’s exceedingly anti-social and dangerous buffoonery; however, Martin Scorcese has created an epic film that both touches on nostalgia and invigorates the present. …
Redacted dance downtown, South Asian dance in Venice, ocean oriented dance in Santa Monica, shared costumes in Brentwood, Celtic dance in Hollywood, first look at new works in Ladera Heights and Lincoln Heights, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Beach Dances It’s been a week to dance by the seaside as Beach Dances: Shared Practice offered …
Having a child in the U.S. isn’t nearly as easy as it might seem. Complications during birth result in an alarming number of fatalities for expecting mothers, a problem which disproportionately affects women of color. Additionally, there are more esoteric issues regarding motherhood. Will your child be healthy and happy in the future, even if …
The 2019-20 Off-Broadway theater season begins with a quartet of productions exploring African-American identities through a variety of lenses—out-of-the-box deconstruction, autobiographical satire, traditional musical, and Shakespeare. The most original and frightening is Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-Prize winning Fairview, now at Theater for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn following its run last summer …
With her trustworthy armor and sword discouraging any sort of interaction, aggressive fighting style, and pragmatic and reserved demeanor, it’s easy to fall into the temptation of putting Brienne of Tarth in a box and keeping her there—Brienne the Warrior, Brienne the Maid of Tarth, Brienne the Beauty. Luckily, Game of Thrones doesn’t, for the …
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Before he set the fashion world “topless turvy,” he was a Jewish refugee, an early gay rights advocate in Los Angeles, and a dancer. Rudi Gernreich wove those experiences first into dance costumes and then into fashions that were contemporary, controversial, injected with gender fluidity, social consciousness, and with a distinctive SoCal sensibility that captured …
Dear Editor of Poetry Journals Named after Famous Cities by Sean Thomas Dougherty I am writing to ask, have you ever eaten a cloud? You see my youngest daughter didn’t use the toilet till she was after 4 years old. She’d shit in a diaper and didn’t seem to mind. She refused to read till she …
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I write this from my High Sierra campground where I am listening to Wolverton Creek flowing down below me. A Sunday afternoon breeze blows through my camp, and the songs of the birds make this place peaceful, contemplative, which is, I have come to understand over the last few days, the perfect space to read …
School City I sit here looking at the bright lights of the city knowing that I don’t belong here yet a little piece of me wants to belong here I want to try to fit in but there’s no way of me fitting in anywhere that I’m not wanted it’s really hard sometimes when you know …
Are There Blacks in Heaven? The priest speaks of a place high above Where everyone shall live in love But one thing that keeps me just stark, Will there be rooms for every Black? They suffered so much as slaves. I just wonder if it’ll be said they were brave. So as I stand here …
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