Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys, a Broadway-import minstrel show about Jim Crow, rolled into the Ahmanson and grabbed this week's pick. Good notices also for Zayd Dohrn's immigration saga Long Way Go Down at the Art of Acting Studio, and for the silly Aussie import Priscilla Queen of ... More >>
Copyright Glenn Ligon, Courtesy LACMAGlenn Ligon's neon sculpture "negro sunshine," hanging in the window at LACMA When the Whitney Museum opened its Glenn Ligon retrospective, "America," in March, they put one of Bronx-born Ligon's signature neon pieces in their Madison Avenue window. The si ... More >>
Colin Young-WolffR. Kelly at Nokia Theatre [For more photos, see Colin Young-Wolff's slideshow "R. Kelly at Nokia Theatre".] Who: R. Kelly (with openers Marsha Ambrosius and Keyshia Cole) When: Saturday, June 11, 2011 Where: Nokia Theatre at LA Live Here's what we wrote for the Page Two pre ... More >>
The audacity yet to come
Hip-hop and hype from the streets of Compton (reprint of May 5, 1989, Weekly cover story)
Former black revolutionary Watani Stiner turned himself in to San Quentin so his children could come to America. Was it worth it?
Bryan Singer overcame a path paved with kryptonite to bring back Superman
Is The Game playing for keeps?
When it comes to black history, Condi makes cynics of us all
The decline of black politics in America
The Omaha rock scene, the world of the flyover people, the future of the music business, and one vicious head wound
Saving King/Drew, the hospital in the hood
The exquisite mayhem of Benedikt Taschen
Nick Zagone cross-examines William Kunstler
Sun Ra’s cosmic tones for mental therapy
Barbara Kruger's word-image art
On Lee's First "White" Film, the Elusive "Black" Audience and Other Gray Areas
A lament for black Los Angeles
