Fences is a puzzler. It's easy to understand the play itself, a relatively straightforward domestic drama set within the context of huddled masses of Black people still struggling to be free a century after the eradication of slavery. What I don't get is the hoopla, the accolades, the Pulitzer and Tony and Oscar, the renown this sixth inst
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]May 20 Trio Eclectic Trio Eclectic takes listeners on a sonic journey that fuses many different genres of music, which are augmented by loops and effects. Time: 8 p.m. May 20 Cost: $20 Details: alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St, San Pedro
Growing up as an unambiguously heterosexual cisgender male, I had the luxury of not being compelled to consider how I fit into any of these categories or how they set me up to fit into society. I did, however, wonder what it was like for others. The arts can be especially helpful for such imaginings. Art is an empathy factory, with its products
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Melina Paris, Music Columnist When you go to see a performance by musicians whose very nature it is to play, it’s as though you’ve crossed a threshold. The seamless flow between their individual expressions, the continuity of harmony, the building of melody and bridges, and
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When reviewing a play, I'm generally completely uninterested in knowing anything about the playwright's life. It doesn't really matter whether William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe or the Earl of Oxford wrote Hamlet, because the play's the thing. But after seeing Good Boys and True, I was curious about Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a staple of speculative fiction since the time of Alan Turing (b. 1912, d. 1954); and the closer we creep to realizing the possibility, the more timely it seems. But the downside for today's writers taking on the topic is two-fold: 1) there's an ever-larger body of work on the subject to which an audience will
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