It was a rare thing, a few decades ago, to hear anyone in academia talk about Central Americans. “People would study Mexicans with no problem,” said Cecilia Menjívar, professor of sociology at UCLA. “But Central Americans were seen as a niche, a small group of people that didn’t seem as relevant.” But on a recent […]
If “West Adams,” now at the Skylight, had been produced three years or so ago, it might have been dismissed as overwrought. Who knew that such drastic change could transpire in such a short span of time? Playwright Penelope Lowder has her finger firmly on the pulse of American culture, and this patient is in […]
In 2018, Pam Tanowitz choreographed T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” with an original score by Kaija Saariaho and a scenic design that incorporates paintings by Brice Marden. It was the 75th anniversary of the publication of Eliot’s four meditations on time and spiritual transience written at the start of World War II. The premiere, which included […]
NEW YORK — Novelist Charles Portis, a favorite among critics and writers for such shaggy dog stories as “Norwood” and “Gringos” and a bounty for Hollywood whose droll, bloody western “True Grit” was a bestseller twice adapted into Oscar-nominated films, died Monday at age 86. Portis, a former newspaper reporter who apparently learned enough to swear […]
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Elon Musk’s first electric car plant in Europe is facing legal delays that could set the project back by several months after a court halted work on clearing a forest for the new Tesla Inc. factory near Berlin while it considers a challenge by environmentalists. The Berlin-Brandenburg higher administrative court issued a temporary injunction against […]
Global trade in goods will likely remain weak in coming months as disruptions from the coronavirus outbreak in China stanch the movement of international commerce already slowed by tariffs and uncertainty, according to the World Trade Organization. The Geneva-based body’s latest forward-looking Goods Trade Barometer stood at 95.5, compared with a level of 96.6 in […]
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Rap superstar and fashion mogul Kanye West confirmed the release date of his highly anticipated new album, Jesus is King, while speaking at a Baptist Church in Atlanta on Sunday, new footage has revealed. Addressing around 600 guests who attended the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church to hear the Grammy Award-winning artist’s speech, West can be heard […]
Automakers, under pressure to reverse a sales slump in their biggest market, are reopening factories in China that were closed to help contain the coronavirus outbreak. Local officials have orders from the ruling Communist Party to get businesses functioning again while still enforcing anti-disease curbs that shut down much of the world’s second-largest economy. “Local […]