Eastside Eye: Rambling the Downtown ArtWalk
DOWNTOWN—Walking the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Art Walk night is a walk on the wild side. You may not view as much art as you’d hoped but the scene is so lively and unexpected that the occasion itself has become performance art. Centered within downtown’s historic core, more [...]
Theater Review: “The Ballad of Emmett Till”
“The Ballad of Emmett Till,” by Chicago playwright Ifa Bayeza is the story of a young African American boy of 14 who was murdered in Mississippi for reportedly whistling at a white woman. In 1955, his murderers were acquitted after the jury’s two-hour deliberation. The event set off the civil rights [...]
