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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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• Field Guide to Adventures in Tropical Botany
  Posted on May 16, 2017 | No Comments

  Field Guides to the Wild intrigue Naomi Pitcairn, sharing her adventures in scientific documentation of the wonders of nature, in this case the botanical wealth of the American Tropics.

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• Corazón Vaquero: Last of the Californio Cowboys of Baja California
  Posted on May 8, 2017 | 1 Comment

  The film 'Corazón Vaquero: The Heart of the Cowboy', documents the rural "Californios," raising livestock in the way of their Spanish ancestors in the Southern Baja California mountains. Facing tourism development, road building, and cultural changes, the isolated ranchos still persist with their self-sustaining subsistence-based way of life.

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• People’s Climate March in LA Harbor Highlights Tesoro’s Dangerous Operations
  Posted on May 5, 2017 | 9 Comments

  Thousands marched on April 29th across the US and the world calling for solutions to the growing global climate crisis. In Los Angeles, thousands converged near a major petroleum refinery near two major ports in support of the nearby vulnerable communities calling for protections to their health and safety.

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• Forest Spirits ‘Induce Confusion’ in Native Vancouver Island
  Posted on April 12, 2017 | No Comments

  Facing cultural genocide at the turn of the 1900s, the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) people's way of life in northern Vancouver Island were protected and preserved by the work of anthropologist Franz Boas and photographer Edward S. Curtis.

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• ‘Solaris’ – Tarkovsky’s Vision Beyond an Urban Future
  Posted on April 3, 2017 | 1 Comment

  A startling vision of the future, somewhere in the cosmos on a planet yet unknown, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris investigates apparitions of the irradiated mind in a nostalgic view of humanity looking into it's own mirror.

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• A Marked Beast: Trump’s Son-In-Law’s 666 Fifth Avenue
  Posted on March 27, 2017 | No Comments

  From a failed attempt to peddle influence to save an upside-down real estate venture, to a spectacularly autocratic design, Zaha Hadid's 666 Fifth Avenue captures the Trumpian moment, in all it's bejeweled phallic grandeur that the Bible's Revelations warned us about.

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