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Day: July 24, 2019
Enjoy A Friday Night Saving The World’s Oceans
Eight-million pieces of plastic pollution flow into our world’s oceans every single day. The sheer scale and magnitude of oceanic pollution and destruction is nearly impossible to grasp considering it’s estimated that over five-trillion microplastic pieces currently float in the open sea around the globe. This is perhaps most sobering when one considers that eighty …
Outsider Status: Rolling Stone, Moscow Moscow
The Rolling Stone does not refer to the iconic American rock music journal, but to a very different publication of the same name. In 2010, the newspaper, based in Kampala, Uganda, began a series of sensational articles printing pictures, names and addresses of individuals known to be or accused of being gay. The African country’s …
When a Finale Can Be a Beginning
Meditating on flamenco in Silverlake, tap dance and more in Fontana, disco downtown, dancer additions to a Sondheim musical in Hollywood, Chinese dance in Brentwood, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Colorado visitors spark a festival An opening night of dance films followed by two nights of live performance is the calling card for …
Jennifer O’Grady: Three Poems
THE ANNUNCIATION ACCORDING TO JOHN COLLIER For once, the angel is film-star handsome, more a gift than bearing a gift, but alas, he is unattainable, as angels are. The girl looks up from her spark-red prayer book, school dress billowing, shins darkly naked, saddle shoes firmly on her welcome mat. The angel looks down in …
Springsteen, My Easy Bake Oven and Destiny
I grew up with Bruce Spingsteen and the E Street band’s graffiti on my basement wall, right behind my Easy Bake Oven. While I was fascinated with the smells of the cake mix and how the little light bulb created enough heat to actually cook the cake I was making, I was also mysteriously drawn …
Solving a Hollywood Bowl Challenge: Add Dancers!
The sing-along Sound of Music film musical is an uber popular feature at the Hollywood Bowl, but for fans of live musical theater, the special gem in this summer’s musical jewelry box is Stephen Sondheim sending fractured fairy tales Into the Woods. This weekend an impressive cast will command the open air Hollywood Bowl stage, but until then, the …
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Cheryl Gross and Nicelle Davis Poetry Films Part One: Commit to Memory
Death is a charmer; nothing makes us feel more alive than brushing shoulders with Death.
Self Construction: Bibliomancy, AWP in Portland & Nipsey, Part 1
A widely quoted axiom is that success is where opportunity meets preparation. The combination of hard work, living intentionally and studying your craft culminates into the process of self construction. The process of self construction is something that the great science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote a lot about. Both Octavia Butler and the late …
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Private Moments in Public Space
It is about moving July 1st is moving day for tenants throughout the city and, given a majority of renters, scenes like the one in the feature image can be experienced as incoming and outgoing tenants, to and from the same unit, juggling for loading and unloading space on the same day if not at the same …
Iyere Ehimen Maryanna: “Mortars and Pestles”
Mortars and Pestles I saw them, old men from the east and west, They sat under an aged tree for a rest. From dawn till the big sun sank low, They told us tales of years years ago. The harmattan breeze, the elders seated, Awaiting the moon the gods created As the evening sun goes …