On Tuesday February 25th, Los Angeles lost one of its greatest community advocates, Levi L. Kingston, Jr. The 80-year old Kingston was a committed community activist in South Central Los Angeles since the early 1960s. Kingston’s influence is so significant that Councilman Curren D. Price of Los Angeles’s Ninth District, adjourned the March 3rd City …
My Thirsty Roots One, Two, Three who are fearful about going on their knees did he get pulled over because of the law? Or simply for the bigger crime that was inevitable of thee? Black history, is this me? I had no control over what I was being born into, yet if I was given …
When we first viewed Tadhi Alawi’s beautiful film Body vs. Mouth, we were blown away. The degree to which he inherently understood the concept of embracing dance anywhere and the importance of taking dance into the heart of community is evident in every aspect of the film. From the beauty of putting dance in the …
According to the American College of Cardiology, cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been and continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States. How should Americans react to this sobering fact? The answer certainly isn’t sitting still or looking the other way. Instead, it’s worth breaking down some of the most common heart …
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Three L.A.-based companies commute to Palm Springs, curated new dance downtown, Black male identity considered return in West Hollywood, contemporary choreography in Santa Monica, flamenco starts year #2 in Echo Park, a festival in motion celebrates women in motion, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Identity in “site” West Hollywood’s legendary Schindler House provides …
The Los Angeles Philharmonic served up another of its ever-inventive creations last week. Conductor Gustavo Dudamel led an inspired pairing of all four Charles Ives symphonies and Antonín Dvořák’s final three. The overarching theme was the American story: one via a Czech immigrant’s melting pot perspective and the other, an American original’s take on his …
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College Town In a city awake on tea and subtitles, the freshman boys fight off sleep to hear a bluesman sing at the corner club, his foot tapping and hoarse voice wailing about fleeing the river hounds; and all the faces look warm and dry here, the Lost Boys of Sudan sheltered behind glass and …
Meet Ani, Dean, and Kendra, editorial assistants at a weekly magazine in New York. They’re ambitious yet frustrated, smart yet not very hard-working, and they’re at the center of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s sharp-edged dramedy Gloria. The play, which premiered last week at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, opens with Dean (Jeremy Kahn) dragging himself into …
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