Culture

Carson Celebrates Black History Month, Presenting California Dreamin’: The West Coast Migration

This year’s event features a host of musical selections, dances and tributes with the theme, California Dreamin’: The West Coast…

2 years ago

Fun and Craft Carry the Day on “42nd Street”

42nd Street is an odd duck, in that it turns a 1933 film about putting together a stage musical —…

2 years ago

As GQ Absorbs Pitchfork, Music Media Becomes Even More Male-Centric

Music journalism, not unlike the industry it covers, is rife with (primarily White) “dude-ishness.” Jessica Hopper, music critic, former senior…

2 years ago

Supervisors Spearhead Initiative to Expand Free Mobile Museum Programs to Students

Data from the National Center for Education Statistics reports children who visited a museum during kindergarten had higher achievement scores…

2 years ago

Sensoriful Part Opera, Part Installation Not Fully What It Aspires to Be

Labeled “a poetic monodrama for soprano, chamber group and electronics that explores the body as island, synaesthesia and the nature…

2 years ago

The Hidden History of Black San Pedro

Other workforce housing units were built in Harbor City, Wilmington and the rest of the city, but it should be…

2 years ago

“Prophet Song” Sings of Our Encroaching Dystopia

An absence of quotation marks and paragraphs invests Lynch’s lucid and occasionally beautiful prose with a fitting claustrophobia, and he…

2 years ago

Long Beach Black Restaurant Week

The statuesque marketing guru sat at an uneven metal table, upon a chair of weather-worn rusted ore in Long Beach…

2 years ago

Will Walker’s Café Ever Reopen?

Prospect Group has portrayed themselves as the people who heroically took a chance on Walker’s Cafe when nobody else would.…

2 years ago

LA Art Show Kicks Off on Valentine’s Day With Global Lineup

Both  Black History Month and artificial intelligence  play a role in this year’s fair as well as key initiatives that…

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