Sculpting Donald Trump’s journey into epic poetry or Hollywood screenplay would demand neither exaggeration nor fiction. Trump’s path from 2016 political ingenue to the White House is without parallel, and his 2020 defeat, dealt him…
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Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II boasts plenty of convincing weaponry and legions of CGI effects that recreate the carnage of the Colosseum and the architecture, if not the vibrant color, of Ancient Rome. Even more amusing…
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In the early 1990s, AVA Cartoonist Dr. Doo (Fred Sternkopf) ran a series of cartoonish sketches depicting timber activist Judi Bari as a bodysuit-clad Wonder Woman, intrepid survivor of a murderous carbomb attack. Bari and…
The old men and women in Stacy Torres’s new book, At Home in the Big City: Growing Old in Urban America, (UC Press; $29.95), are not like the original members of the Grey Panthers, the…
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For the last three mornings there has been an hour of dead air between 5 and 6 am and no announcement that I have heard why Radio Bilingue has not been on the air at a time…