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Book Review: Being Nixon: A Man Dividedby Evan Thomas
Whenever I think of Richard Nixon, a wave of pity washes over me. Has there ever been a mainstream politician in America who was so hated, so reviled, so disrespected as Nixon? (I’m sure my esteemed editor would say that Nixon deserved every last…
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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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