“Stare (…) pry, listen, eavesdrop (…) You are not here long.” —Walker Evans Two benches and two potted plants do not a “place” make. The feature image, reprised below, shows a concourse-like area at the merging of two corridors, in the basement of the local shopping center being remodeled. The placing of two benches …
Soft Power, the gloriously messy but idea-packed new musical from two of our most vital and prolific theater artists, David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori, is anything but soft. The title refers to countries’ gaining world dominance through cultural influence rather than military hardware and muscle flexing. Hwang’s hilariously satiric and complex book also addresses …
“Door” is an excerpt from a trilogy of novels set in Hong Kong. The novels span the 50 years between the regime change between Britain and China in 1997 and when Hong Kong becomes fully integrated into the Chinese Communist Party’s totalitarian state. This story is set in today’s Hong Kong Resistance which started in …
Love Dot Com: The Social Experiment, a new film produced by Cultural Weekly/Next Echo foundation community member B.K. Fulton, will be available on iTunes on November 19. You can pre-order it now here: http://bit.ly/LoveDotCom In Love Dot Com, Shelby Quinn (Brave Willians) is a Social Justice Food Warrior working to uplift her gentrifying community. Anything …
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A long slow walk down a dimly lit corridor, the statuesque and elegant silhouette of a woman walking, and the subservient, almost helpless figure of the love-struck man following her provide the main set up for i could have, what looks to be—but apparently isn’t—a music video for “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” by the …
Permanent Girl She’s fifty now tired of riding the blue anchor etched into his left bicep tired of being his USNA pinup girl always fighting gravity bubbled tits & ass sagging on the freckled folds of his skin. The things she’s seen! The pool halls! Sundays at Charles Town the Hollywood Casino his favorite. Her …
San Diego’s downtown transformation conveys an important message to many cities’ challenges. It is possible to increase density while maintaining high standards of design quality. It is possible to mitigate traffic by bringing efficient public transportation. It is possible to build high-quality public buildings within the budget. It was late May when we first considered …
“People suck. Only food is real,” rails Harry, the temperamental genius chef, in Theresa Rebeck’s riotous comedy Seared at MCC Theater. Harry is engaged in one of many contentious debates on the purity of his gastronomic art over commercial viability with the more practical Mike, his partner in a small restaurant in trendy Park Slope, …
Independent filmmaker and co-founder of blindfoldmag.com, Jacqueline Romano and Anti-Trafficking Expert and Activist Alezandra Russell are turning to the internet to raise funds for their first feature film project, The Often Forgotten, a documentary that tells the stories of at-risk boys who are exploited, abused and trafficked within the sex tourism industry of Thailand, and …
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I wake up as the sun peeked through the curtains. The warm light touches my skin as I squint my eyes. I look to the left and see my alarm going off. I reach out to stop it, six o’clock. I sit up on my bed, slowly waking my body up. I open the curtain …
I’ve been covering the Twin Cities’ culinary scene for a few years – Minneapolis’ Fig & Farro and St. Paul’s revamped Lexington have been exceptional. Esquire magazine has termed Minneapolis “the food world’s best-kept secret” and reasons for that designation just grew sharper with the opening of Tullibee in Minneapolis’ hipster North Loop ‘hood. Occupying a …
Canadians rework Cinderella in West L.A., an Irishman reworks Swan Lake in Westwood, new choreography in Glassell Park, Santa Monica and downtown, dance behind bars in Claremont, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. When walls a prison make Choreographer Suchi Branfman continues her explorations of the prison industry and the human stories that emerged …
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