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• Jerry Brown Passes Cap and Trade Written by the Oil Industry
  Posted on July 23, 2017 | No Comments

  California extended its Cap and Trade system until 2030, a symbolic move that actually allows grave concessions to the oil industry, ties the hands of local agencies ability to regulate greenhouse gases, and threatens both the state’s climate goals and the health of communities, ecosystems and the planet. RL Miller unveils the ugly political process where the Jerry Brown had the oil industry write the bill and forced the rest to go along.

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• Jean-Michel Basquiat: Poverty and Power, Scrawled on Walls
  Posted on July 11, 2017 | No Comments

  Living and dying close to the edge in the 1980s Manhattan world of art and culture, Jean-Michel Basquiat moved from guerrilla street artist to producing innumerable works worth millions, until his drug-induced end in 1988.

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• LA Poet Wanda Coleman on Smog Addiction and Angel Wings
  Posted on July 7, 2017 | No Comments

  In "Angel Baby Blues," from Wanda Coleman's collection Heavy Daughter Blues, she offered a take on the failed promises of her home in Southern California. A prolific poet, fiction writer, and journalist, she was considered for a time Los Angeles' unofficial and controversial Poet Laureate.

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• Benefits of Coconut Oil Versus the Detractors
  Posted on July 4, 2017 | No Comments

  While health benefits of coconut oil through scientific, peer-reviewed analysis outweigh concerns about saturated fat from the American Heart Association, its obsessive use is not without impacts to the environment.

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• Poet Antonio López on the “Road Rage” of Clashing Histories
  Posted on June 30, 2017 | No Comments

  Antonio López won the Poetry Award at the 2017 Santa Barbara Writers Conference with 'Which Cobija Feels Most Comfy?: A Letter to Sister Nabra', about the murder of a teenage Muslim girl beaten and killed by a bat-wielding motorist near a Virginia mosque.

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• Bukowski’s ‘Born Into This’ – Treachery, Hatred, Violence, Absurdity
  Posted on June 29, 2017 | 1 Comment

  The documentary, 'Bukowski: Born into This' rehashes stories of the inimitable misanthrope, poet, and author Charles Bukowski. Post features the poem, 'Dinosauria, we.'

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• Jack Eidt’s ‘The Blue Basement’ on Luna Review
  Posted on June 18, 2017 | No Comments

  An excerpt of Jack Eidt's recent novel 'Nowhere Beckons' was published in the Luna Review. Called 'The Blue Basement', it narrates the protagonist T.'s visionary descent into the urban underworld, where ideas, light, and color blend, and surviving on the journey to the end of the night is everything.

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• Arnold Schoenberg’s Sound, Ecstatic, Innovative, Aware of Catastrophes
  Posted on June 5, 2017 | No Comments

  A recent concert featuring the works of revolutionary Jewish composer Arnold Schoenberg in his exiled home Los Angeles showcased his challenging and revolutionary oeuvre, channeled through classical forms such as fugues, sonatas, and waltzes.

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• Visual Poems, Silent Dances of the Maquette Theatre
  Posted on May 22, 2017 | No Comments

  Matthew Anthony Stokes solo show Camouflage opened in Los Angeles, which illustrates his unique multi-disciplinary background in performance, corporeal dramaturgy, dance, sculpture, assemblage, film, photography, and poetry. Multiple videos from the experimental MAQUETTE Theatre, which he co-founded, create a visionary alternative universe replete with silent dances and visual poems that "unveil" ephemeral sculpture, including costumes, sets and masks.

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• On Wild Rivers, Hydroelectric Dams, and Whitewater Rafting the American
  Posted on May 20, 2017 | No Comments

  Pristine beauty, danger, and wild risk make Whitewater River Rafting on the Middle Fork of the American River a must-face-death for paddlers. Despite a healthy Sierra Nevada snowpack, this free-flowing river stretch brings up questions of water sustainability and the zombie Auburn Dam proposal, among others. Why is dam removal an important movement? And what about the folly of plans to build 3,700 new not-so-clean hydroelectric dams across the world?

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