Eunice Wong on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/eunice_wong Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-08-19T17:50:05+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo ‘Life and Fate’ at the Lincoln Center Festival http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090819_theatre_review_life_and_fate_at_the_lincoln_center/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090819_theatre_review_life_and_fate_at_the_lincoln_center/ eunice wong, lev dodin, life and fate, lincoln center festival, maly drama, st. petersburg, theatre review, wwii, Theater Life and Fate

“Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman is one of the greatest works of 20th century literature. A new theatrical adaptation is innovative, but ultimately loses the epic’s profound meditations on good and evil.

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Hello ladies. Would you consider reusable menstrual items? Please stay with me. 

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]]> 2009-01-13T01:09:59+00:00 The Many Faces of ‘Dylan’ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20071128_the_many_faces_of_dylan/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20071128_the_many_faces_of_dylan/ bob dylan, cate blanchett, christian bale, film, gainsbourg, heath ledger, i'm not there, review, todd haynes, wong, Film Review Blanchett as Dylan

Todd Haynes’ film “I’m Not There,” “inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan,” shows that art reveals truth when it has the imagination to move away from the imitation of reality.

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]]> 2007-11-29T00:53:01+00:00 The Great Forgetting http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20071005_the_great_forgetting/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20071005_the_great_forgetting/ american indian, chief, eunice wong, exhibit, genocide, museum, native american, smithsonian, washington, American Indian

The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, located on the Mall in Washington, D.C., is a monument to historical amnesia.  The blond limestone building, surrounded by indigenous crops of corn, tobacco and squash, invites visitors on a guilt-free, theme park tour of Native American history, where acknowledgment of the American genocide is in extremely bad taste.

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]]> 2007-10-05T20:05:00+00:00 Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Seagull’ Soars http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20070917_theater_review_rsc_the_seagull/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20070917_theater_review_rsc_the_seagull/ actor, chekhov, drama, los angeles, new york, nunn, royal shakespeare company, seagull, stage, theater, Theater The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” seems, at first, to be merely a skillful and familiar rendition of a masterpiece. But like many great works of art, the power of this production is cumulative.

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After all the usual controversy that swirls around any film by director and rabble-rouser Michael Moore, and after all those stories about Moore taking 9/11 workers to Cuba for treatment, “SiCKO” is finally in theaters.  Eunice Wong delivers her diagnosis for Truthdig.

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