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1 week ago | culturevulture.net | Paula Farmer

A haunting tip prompts a Los Angeles Times reporter to discover that as many as a half a million barrels of toxic waste had been dumped into the ocean in the 50s through the early 60s. Thus begins the career-defining investigative reporting work from Los Angeles Times environmental journalist Rosanna Xia. In 2020, she was the first to break the story of DDT chemicals dumped into the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Southern California.

1 week ago | culturevulture.net | Lewis Whittington

At age 92, Yoko Ono has for decades been a celebrated artist with art installations and performances in galleries and theaters all over the world. Even songs from Ono’s reviled Plastic Ono Band albums from the 70s have been recycled by millennial bands collaborating with Ono and are dance club hits. Yet Ono is still remembered some as the woman who broke up the Beatles.

3 weeks ago | culturevulture.net | Brian Lipton

In our topsy-turvy world, I am not sure I agree with the proclamation made in the “Buena Vista Social Club” that “there’s nothing a song can’t fix.” But should any question persist whether “music is the universal language of mankind,” all you need to do is head to the Schoenfeld Theater and take in this truly joyful musical to prove this age-old adage is true.

3 weeks ago | culturevulture.net | Paula Farmer

In the world of cinema and amongst cinephiles of New York, if autumn is synonymous with the New York Film Festival (NYFF), then New Directors/New Films (ND/NF) means spring is in the air and a new season of the potentially future best and brightest is about to be ushered in. Taking place April 2 through April 13, the over 50-year-old festival of emerging new filmmakers also marks the long lasting collaboration between hosts, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Film at Lincoln Center (FLC).

1 month ago | culturevulture.net | Andrew Osborne

The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined tragedy as an action “that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.” But in the United States, there are two kinds of “tragedy,” specifically (a) those that politicians scream about on their way to election victories — see: any crime committed by a non-white described as a “migrant” on Fox News, harm to any police officers not on duty at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 — and (b) the types of sad circumstances we respond to with the phrase...