Ed Rampell: The 35th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards’ star-studded ceremony took place under the big top on the beach at Santa Monica.
Hollywood Progressive
Progressive Activism in Entertainment, Sports, Celebrity Lives
Fiction
The Eight-Month Prayer
Dick Price: To give me a certain weight with potential donors, I had put “Executive Director” on my business card. To the guys in the house and most of the board members, “House Daddy” fit better.
Stage
Greek Tragedy: Valor, From A to Z
Ed Rampell: whether or not Oriana danced the horizontal mambo with Castro, one thing’s for sure: She did have a three-year romance with Panagoulis, and their l’amour is the subject of Show Me a Hero.
Literature
Standing Up for Left Literature—In India, It Can Cost You Your Life
Vijay Prashad: Red Books Day is about standing up to fascism and standing up for our own intellectual development.
Music
Traitor’s Trial: The Not-So-Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Ed Rampell: As the 2020 season continues, LA Opera is rolling right along, despite conundrums that might cause serious setbacks to other lesser opera houses.
Television
Sleep Dystopias Podcast: Rule of the Jungle
Sikivu Hutchinson: “I was a special animal. Gifted with supersonic hearing. Smooth skin. High cranial capacity. They’d never seen the likes of me.
Humor
Trump Should Reign for 1,000 Years
Mona Shaikh and Ed Rampell — The facts in this Ukrainian instance are unambiguous: The Emperor of the United Snakes attempted to use his power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of His Royal Anus’s political opponents.
Poetry
Sometimes a Scorpion Enters a Love Poem
Paul Haeder: you see cracks in walls as art, terra cotta a glimmer of Taxco pottery earth of mother country a dream, sometimes fancy, you take shots of Don Julio not to stave asthma