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RECORDED IN HOLLYWOOD Theatre Review: Shedding Light on Long Lost L.A. and Musical History: Pigs, Sex, Rock ‘n’ Roll and Race

Who knew? Before there was Fox-TV’s Empire, there was John Dolphin (Broadway veteran Stu James),who from 1948-1958 was an African American impresario and entrepreneur who pioneered “Race music” at a critical time when Rock ‘n’ Roll was being born…

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Millennials mobilize to stop Trump

On July 21, the last day of the Republican National Convention, activists across the nation rallied at the offices of Republican politicians and corporations sponsoring the RNC to denounce the racism, xenophobia, and misogyny expressed by Donald…

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Diablo Shutdown Marks End of Atomic Era

As worldwide headlines have proclaimed, California’s Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) says it will shut its giant Diablo Canyon reactors near San Luis Obispo, and that the power they’ve been producing will be replaced by …
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New ‘Ghostbusters’ haunted by ghost of funnier original

The all-female title characters of 2016’s Ghostbusters can bust ghosts just as well as their 1984 forebears. Just don’t expect them to bust a lot of guts in the process.


Despite its overall quirky charm, the original film was primarily a…

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