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Talking Trade, Kool-Aid and Gaslighting ― A Barstool Debate on Tariffs, Robots, and Reality

The problem is that even though this is a kind of performative political theater, real consequences will come. It will…

1 year ago

Lydia Maria Child’s Forgotten Lessons in a Nation Still Learning the Hard Way

As Americans muddle through this “find out” period, 45 days after we inaugurated the first criminal to the presidency, it’s…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

Sam Flood: A Church Leader, Labor Advocate, and Champion for Justice

This past January, Warren Chapel CME Church celebrated its 80th anniversary. Regardless of denomination, a church is formed when two…

2 years ago

NYC’s ‘Idle Warriors’ Are Cashing in on Cleaner Air – Should LA Follow?

By Rick Thomas In New York City they call themselves ‘Idle Warriors.”  Gasoline and diesel trucks that sit still just…

2 years ago

97% Complete, 100% Stopped ― The Silver RV Park Controversy Unfolds

By Rick Thomas I started writing this piece over 6 months ago.  Still an ongoing, never-ending mess.  A mess.  Not…

2 years ago

Could the Democrats’ Lack of Resistance Be a Green Light for Tyranny?

It only took Hitler 53 days to use legal means to turn Germany from a functioning democracy into a dictatorship.…

2 years ago