# The District

The politics and culture of the arts. Opinions abound.

The Exodus

The Exodus

Consider this my Emergency Service Announcement for Writers. Take it, leave it, or tell me to piss off, but someone needs to say it.

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6 min read

Behind the Screen: A Lifetime in the Cinema—The Story of the Gardena Cinema

Behind the Screen: A Lifetime in the Cinema—The Story of the Gardena Cinema

... she is not the typical film nerd one expects at the helm of one of the last remaining family-owned movie palaces in the country.

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5 min read

Can "Cancel Culture" Be Kicked to the Curb?

Can "Cancel Culture" Be Kicked to the Curb?

Such decisions may get called out, but they are still artistic decisions and that’s where much of the slippery slope of Cancel Culture starts to poison all the water.

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6 min read

Hollywood Creatives Fundraising for Strike Funds: Where to Find Help if You Need It

Hollywood Creatives Fundraising for Strike Funds: Where to Find Help if You Need It

Hot Labor Summer is all too real, so Hollywood's creatives are finding some, well, creative ways to raise money for strike funds.

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4 min read

Sex, Lies, and Solidarity

Sex, Lies, and Solidarity

From what I was reading, it seemed like one could delete their Hinge, Bumble, Tinder, or Grindr account and find what they’re looking for on the picket lines.

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6 min read

Strike-Out

Strike-Out

Profits are good. Greed is not.

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6 min read

Perfectly Ordinary: The Resistible Rise of the ChatBot

Perfectly Ordinary: The Resistible Rise of the ChatBot

Programs like ChatGPT ... according to Noam Chomsky and others, are actually distracting us from the true goal of creating a technology that thinks.

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5 min read

Nepo-Baby or Nepo-Victim?

Nepo-Baby or Nepo-Victim?

But here’s a trigger warning—nepotism is even more pervasive than you think. Nepotism is everywhere.

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6 min read

The Impact of Arts and Minds, the Bilingual Art Program Dedicated to People Living With Dementia and Their Carers

The Impact of Arts and Minds, the Bilingual Art Program Dedicated to People Living With Dementia and Their Carers

Arts and Minds provides an opportunity for genuine connection, unapologetic self-expression, and reflection.

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6 min read

The Art of Sports and the Sport of Arts

The Art of Sports and the Sport of Arts

Did you catch that? “Mediocrity is … unacceptable.” And if this were the case, or the perception in 1873, how much more does this apply today?

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9 min read

Through Music, Israelis and Palestinians Fight for Equality

Through Music, Israelis and Palestinians Fight for Equality

"Peace is not going to rain on us. Peace is something we have to make. We have to build it. It's going to take sacrifice."

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15 min read

Disability In Hollywood: How Advocates are Changing the Landscape

Disability In Hollywood: How Advocates are Changing the Landscape

"I think this is an opportunity for people with disabilities and allies to demand better."

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14 min read

Righteous Violence

Righteous Violence

It's often hard to know who the "good guy" and the "bad guy" is, especially when both sides of a conflict are truly convinced of their own righteousness.

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4 min read

The Problem with Problematic

The Problem with Problematic

… depiction is not an endorsement, and flattening all media into "good" and "bad" and basing media consumption on morality would make an incredibly dull and even more ignorant world than we live in.

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5 min read

The Arts & NFTs: A Hellscape Primer

The Arts & NFTs: A Hellscape Primer

Enter: NFTs, the harbinger of the apocalypse, and purveyor of our late-stage capitalist modern hell.

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12 min read
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