Each year San Diego’s original fine art festival ArtWalk, bring together hundreds of artists to the streets of Little Italy to showcase their own brand of creative expression. This year, just in time for summer, International Muralist Maxx Moses, who paints large scale murals throughout the world, showcased a vibrant piece of wearable art, a […]
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British Vogue announced EDWARD ENNINFUL as the new editor of British Vogue. Condé Nast International chairman and chief executive Jonathan Newhouse called Enninful “an influential figure in the communities of fashion, Hollywood and music which shape the cultural zeitgeist”, adding that “by virtue of his talent and experience, Edward is supremely prepared to assume the responsibility of
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Today Pulitzer Prize Administrator Mike Pride announced the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in the World Room at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. This year there were four African American winners including: Lynn Nottage named the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play Sweat, a personal and political drama
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SAN DIEGO —San Diego director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg makes her Globe debut to helm the award-winning drama, Skeleton Crew, which is presented in association with San Diego’s MOXIE Theatre, where Turner Sonnenberg is Founding Artistic Director. Times are tough in 2008 Detroit, but there’s still one working auto plant. The long hours and demanding shifts have turned the line workers
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In honor of World Poetry Day, we’re honored to share with you the poem, “Challenge Me,” written poetically by Theodore Mosley. We find it fitting to publish “Challenge Me” in honor of Women’s History Month and feature a photo of a woman who creatively and uniquely challenges herself artistically through movement. In the photograph taken by Ashley Walker, Fatima
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The 29-year old singer-songwriter Yuna, didn’t intend on becoming an R&B star. Or, a pop star for that matter. Born Yunalis Zarai, a devout Muslim, quiet and timid as she once described herself, Yuna was raised in a very conservative environment in Alor Setar, Malaysia, by her legal-adviser father and chemistry-teacher mother. She spent her childhood focused
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La Jolla, CA — La Jolla Playhouse announces a collaboration with the acclaimed theatre group Ping Chong + Company to develop and present South of The 8, a brand-new, community-engaged piece, created with and performed by a group individuals living in neighborhoods south of the I-8. Scripted by Sara Zatz and Daniela Rivera and
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As a push to incorporate more hip-hop into its programming, The Kennedy Center recently announced their very first director of hip-hop culture and contemporary music! On Wednesday, the Kennedy Center announced the appointment of Simone Eccleston, who is currently the director of programming at Harlem Stage in New York, for the new position. Her first day
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As the sands of time equipped us with fortitudes of rights we developed hearts of love. No longer allowing the grave to be our mentor, our life became a monument of inspirations. Engraving the unsolicited effects that bound our minds, our discourse reined with theaters of solutions. You tried to silence our spirit with your
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To commemorate Black History Month, the Women’s Museum of California celebrates African-American Women in the Arts by honoring jazz musician and composer Jeannie Cheatham, Moxie Theatre artistic director Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg, and professor/artist/poet Starla Lewis. You will hear excerpts from Jeannie’s latest release, a poem from Starla, and a song from Nigerian refugee Buki Domingos. EVENT
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