Culture

solo. Gallery Presents the Visceral Trigger Warning by Ellwood T. Risk

The works, Risk says, speak to the hyper-masculine, toxic male-female relationships.

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ACLU Files Lawsuit Regarding NEA Requirements

The new requirements force NEA grant applicants to certify that they do not “promote gender ideology.”

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LA Harbor International Film Festival Sets Sail on 22nd Voyage March 13-16

“DocSunday,” 2 p.m. at the YWCA Harbor Area Julia Morgan Auditorium. This year features the POLA premiere of Patrice: The…

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The Actors Jungle: A New Era of South Bay Theatrical Innovation

August’s idea came as a result of wanting to fill the new theater gap in San Pedro. He started looking…

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Garage Theatre turns 25 by the grace of community

When I sat down with a quartet of Garage Theatre co-founders in 2010 as they got ready to celebrate their…

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Long Beach Opera dials up the ambition for season’s second aleatory offering

Having just seen/heard Long Beach Opera’s staging of El Relicario de los Animales, I don’t have a clue what they’re…

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Long Beach Playhouse channels the spirit of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson”

According to the American Psychological Institute, the term ‘intergenerational trauma’ did not come into use until the 1960s. So while…

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Council Moves to Designate Historic Japanese American Fishing Village as Cultural Monument on 83rd Anniversary of Executive Order 9066

McOsker was joined at City Hall by the Terminal Islanders Association, a group of former residents and their descendants who…

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Tuesday Talk: San Pedro Artist Laurie Steelink Speaks at Kleefeld Contemporary

Steelink’s abstract imagery references scientific and spiritual perspectives, from cellular structures seen under a microscope to altered visions that can…

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Black in Place: Honoring the Black Diaspora’s Legacy

  It's Black History Month but the current regime is trying to wipe it away. It began as a way…

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