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Dec 3, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Eric Gordon
In Jewish tradition, the Sabbath is often likened to a queen, or the Sabbath bride, conferring on the mandated day of rest a special feminized status imbued with reverence and joy as if welcoming a royal figure to your home.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Eric Gordon
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Eric Gordon
Benjamin Britten’s Owen Wingrave is one of the few openly anti-war operas. Robert Kurka’s The Good Soldier Schweik might be another. Other operas treat the subject warily, such as Huang Ruo’s An American Solider, centering anti-Chinese racism in the U.S. Army.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Eric Gordon
LOS ANGELES — A decade has passed since 43 young students from the all-male Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College, in Tixtla in the state of Guerrero, were hijacked, attacked, shot at and otherwise forcibly “disappeared” at the hands of Mexican police, politicians, military and cartel members in deadly collusion. The politically engaged students had been traveling on a bus to the nearby city of Iguala to participate in a demonstration. There’s suspicion that an informer was posing as a student.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Eric Gordon
LOS ANGELES — Theatergoers are in for a very special occasion—a revelation, it’s not too excessive to say—if they will expand their horizons a bit and embrace a Native American perspective on view now. Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary season, Native Voices presents the world premiere of Beth Piatote’s Antíkoni at the historic Southwest Campus of the Autry Museum of the American West, formerly known as the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, deemed the oldest museum in Los Angeles.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Eric Gordon
LOS ANGELES — Renowned, revered writer and activist Jesús Colón (1901-74), remembered as “Father of the Nuyorican Movement,” stars as the central character in The Red Rose. The musicalized version of Colón’s life is offered by The Bronx’s Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, one of 19 theater companies involving 165 artists from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, currently electrifying downtown L.A. during a three-week national festival of dynamic, contemporary Latiné theater.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Eric Gordon
IRVINE, Calif. — I’ll get to my review of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium and The Old Maid and the Thief in a few moments. First, though, I’d like to explain how this Italian-American composer helped to set the course for my whole life. Maybe some other readers my age will also recall his impact. Xmas 1951I go back to Christmas Eve 1951. I was about to turn seven.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Eric Gordon
LOS ANGELES — Theater is an ancient art, but let no one tell you there’s nothing new to it. On Oct. 24, opening night of the Latino Theater Company’s festival of 19 Latiné theater companies from around the U.S. and Puerto Rico, called “Encuentro 2024: We Are Here: Presente!” we experienced a full-length, almost two-hour-long, intermissionless drama performed in complete darkness.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | John Harlow |Dana Lewis |Rebeka Ryvola |Eric Gordon
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Applied visual art for codesign: three case studies of emergent practices John Harlow [1] ; Dana Lewis [2] ; Rebeka Ryvola [3] ; Eric Gordon [4] [1] School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA [2] OpenAPS, Seattle, WA, USA [3] Red Cross Climate Centre, Washington, DC, USA [4] Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College, Boston, MA, USA Localización: CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and...
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Eric Gordon
PASADENA, Calif. – How does the indelible stain of slavery reverberate down into the 20th century? Specifically into a modest, haunted African-American home in Pittsburgh’s Hill District—where August Wilson grew up—in the 1930s, in The Piano Lesson, the fourth of August Wilson’s extraordinary 10-play “American Century Cycle,” each devoted to exploring themes of 10 sequential decades.
