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A Veteran's Life Disintegrates in “Nightingale”

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Who Stops a Bad Guy with a Gun?

By Dick Price and Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Kill Move Paradise: Black Men Confronting the Afterlife

By Dick Price and Sharon Kyle
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Clarkston: On the Trail

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Excelsior: Thorny Thornton Wilder’s Wild Romp

By Ed Rampell
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God Will Do The Rest: Pain at the Heart of Frolic

By Linnea Friberg-Price and Dick Price
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Desegregating the Army Started with a Letter to the Editor

By Linnea Friberg-Price and Dick Price
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The Outsider: What Politics Could Be But Usually Actually Isn't

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Bond: Both Shaken and Stirred

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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As Los Angeles Burned

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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“Mama Mama:” Combat Burned Into Your Soul

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Fatherland: A Greek Tragedy for Today

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Hitler’s Tasters Gratefully Protect Adolph

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Arrowhead: A Complicated Weekend at the Cabin

By Dick Price, Linnea Friberg-Price and Sharon Kyle
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“Faithless” Finds a Path Back to God

By Sharon Kyle, Linnea Friberg-Price and Dick Price
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Don’t Call Me Champ!

By Linnea Friberg-Price and Dick Price
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Dear Sugar, Please Help

By Dick Price and Linnea Friberg-Price
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A Mixed Plate

By Ed Rampell
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Femme Fest Highlights Multi-Culti One-Woman Shows

By Ed Rampell
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AllStore: Working for Peanuts

By Linnea Friberg-Price, Sharon Kyle and Dick Price
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“Middle of the World:” Well Worth the Swim

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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‘The Talented Tenth’ Explores High Price of African-American Success

By Eric A. Gordon
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‘Freight’ Starring J. Alphonse Nicholson: Must-See Theater

By Eric A. Gordon
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White Nights, Black Paradise

By Sharon Kyle, Linnea Friberg-Price and Dick Price
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A Century of Black Life in One Evening

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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What the Gifted Owe

By Sharon Kyle, Linnea Friberg-Price and Dick Price
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What Happened to George Wallace’s “Line in the Dust?”

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Blood at the Root: Talking with Nychelle Hawk

By Dick Price, Linnea Friberg-Price and Sharon Kyle
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SHE: A Shining Light in Hard Times

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Baby Steps with “Baby Foot”

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle, Linnea Friberg-Price and Ed Rampell
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Rise: A Boyle Heights Love Letter

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Fanatical “Christian” Conservatives: In Your Heart (and Mind) You Know They’re Wrong

By Ed Rampell
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Do the Spike Thing: Singing the Blues with a Red, White and Blue Noose

By Ed Rampell
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One Very Curious Incident

By Dick Price, Linnea Friberg-Price and Sharon Kyle
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Blood at the Root Hits Home with Civil Rights Issues Challenging Segregation

By Mark Friedman
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An Extraordinarily Curious Incident

By Dick Price
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“A Mental Kink”: Agatha Christie’s Zero Sum Game

By Ed Rampell, Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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“Heroes of the Fourth Turning:” Conservative Ideologies Collide

By Dick Price, Linnea Friberg-Price and Sharon Kyle
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Freud on Cocaine: Dark Comedy to Remind Us We Are All Human

By Linnea Friberg-Price
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The Bluest Eye Meets the White Gaze

By Sharon Kyle
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"Exit Wounds" Seeks Redemption

By Sharon Kyle, Linnea Friberg-Price and Dick Price
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RENT: Surviving the Plague

By Dick Price, Linnea Friberg-Price and Sharon Kyle
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"Moment of Freedom:" Enslaved Woman Wins Her Own Freedom

By Linnea Friberg-Price, Sharon Kyle and Dick Price
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We Got Your Six: Combat’s Anguish On Stage

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Crabs in a Bucket: If I Can't Have It, Nobody Can

By Linnea Friberg-Price, Sharon Kyle and Dick Price
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No Sambos Here: Muhammad Ali Meets Stepin Fetchit

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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A Perfect Ganesh: In Search of a Healing

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Martin’s One Night at the Lorraine Motel

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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A Truly Heated Discussion

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Big Money: What Will You Do to Get It?

By Linnea Friberg-Price, Sharon Kyle and Dick Price
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June Carryl: Playwright, Actor, Teacher, Activist Extraordinaire

By Sharon Kyle, Linnea Friberg-Price and Dick Price
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“Can I Touch It?” What Black Women Face

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Whittier Boulevard: A Los Angeles Even More Dystopian

By Linnea Friberg-Price, Sharon Kyle and Dick Price
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Blue: Another Black Man Gunned Down

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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“The Human Comedy” Finds Hope in Dark Times

By Dick Price and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Locked Inside

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Is a Good Story More Than Just a Stale Set of Facts?

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Surviving Jim Crow

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Home Front: What We Thought We Won

By Dick Price, Sharon Kyle and Linnea Friberg-Price
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Channeling Frederick Douglass

By Dick Price and Sharon Kyle

Food Reviews

Zabon Ramen: Serving Torrance Quality Ramen

Zabon Ramen: Quality Ramen in Torrance, CA

By Linnea Friberg-Price
Johnnie’s Pastrami: West Side Purveyor of Pastrami 70 Years and Counting

Johnnie’s Pastrami: West Side Purveyor of Pastrami 70 Years and Counting

By Linnea Friberg-Price
Good Vibes Pizza: Good Vibes, Great Pizza

Good Vibes Pizza: Good Vibes, Great Pizza

By Linnea Friberg-Price

Film Reviews

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“Aurora’s Sunrise” Illuminates the Armenian Genocide

By Dick Price and Sharon Kyle
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What Netflix’s Crime-Thriller Series “Sleeping Dog” Reveals about Berlin

By Walter Moss
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J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Tragedy―and Ours

By Lawrence Wittner
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“Ithaka:” The Battle to Save Julian Assange

By Dick Price
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Clemency: The Toll Capital Punishment Takes

By Dick Price and Sharon Kyle
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Shots Fired Keeps It Real

By Sharon Kyle
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"The Help" Reflects the Racial Divide, Then and Now

By Sharon Kyle