SALAS In my freshman year of college, I was a part of a history research project. Its goal was to find out the history of Salinas and study its immigration patterns, Paint a picture of how people immigrate to Salinas. Discover what led our people here. The seeds planted into the nation, the blossoming of …
“The tongue is a snazzy tool”—tatiana de la tierra This glossary evolved out of a writing activity in our Chicanx Literature class (CLS 4020) at California State University, Los Angeles in the spring of 2021. The assignment was to celebrate the mighty lengua and produce vignettes about cultural expressions we grew up with. …
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This week, last but by no means least, I am thrilled to share our final 2 winning films for Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival: Round 4. They are Geister, and the inimitable Smokestack Lightning. Best Editing Awardee Geister is a gorgeous, site-specific dance film that could have won in so many categories that …
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The boxy TV sets emerge from a thick bed of live ferns like gigantic mushrooms on a primeval forest floor. A video program plays simultaneously on all 49 TVs: disco dancers rocking out to “Devil With a Blue Dress On,” Buddhist meditative music, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, a Japanese Pepsi commercial, Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the …
For this thirty-eighth post in the Poets on Craft series, we have Chath pierSath and Paul Marion. Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic …
It’s not noir exactly — this show’s much too cheerful, and it pre-dates noir — but it’s got some bodies, murdered ones, and a detective to puzzle over them. So, close enough. It’s not a realistic marriage, not exactly, but parts catch the fun of marriage — or, at least the fun parts of a …
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When the Oscars producers planned for the last award of the night to go to best actor, they were counting on Chadwick Boseman winning it posthumously for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, but Academy voters gave it to the excellent Anthony Hopkins for The Father. They were hoping for a tearful speech from his widow, like …
A downtown space retaken, more lessons from a prior plague, a trio of live premieres repeat in a stream, a four-day street dance anniversary, plus recent online encores, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. This Week Filling the time Pedestrian and non-pedestrian activities fuel taisha paggett’s latest, com.pleats.we (housecoat). …
Terry Braunstein and Victor Raphael – A Collaboration This collaboration grew out of a professional relationship and mutual appreciation of one another’s work. They were motivated to create these artworks in response to the current political environment over the last few years. Four series of limited edition ink jet prints will be featured here …
FIVE SHORT POEMS Dew as though delighted that I am up and out of bed sane and smiling Morning diner talk smell of the highway church bells in the butter Dilapidated basket she left behind good for only starting a fire While eating an egg I watch the dog chewing the end of its tail …
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