Virtual Entertainment #188 (May 4)

In this issue: BAMPFA Exhibition Tour: Legacies of the Great Migration; Rap Prodigy Teddy On NPR's 'I Wrote This to Inspire'; Mira Nair Joins Sundance, Mumbai Documentary ‘Against the Tide’; The Playwright Who Fearlessly Reimagines America; Exploring Bali's Incredible Street Food Culture; Exploring Bali's Incredible Street Food Culture; Rwanda: Fostering National Unity Through Dance; 9,000-Year-Old Rock Art Discovered Among Dinosaur Footprints in Brazil

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Virtual Entertainment #187 (April 27)

In this issue: Celebrating Gordon Parks, a Pioneering Photographer of Black American Life; 'We Need Diverse Books' Launches New Site Dedicated to Indigenous Children’s Literature; Coca-Cola's Epic Interactive Music Video Celebrates Street Food of Thailand; Two Chilean Films Depict Tierra Del Fuego’s Brutal Colonization — and With It, Art’s Role; The Powerful Paintings Reframing Black Experience; Laufey Blends Genres as Part of “Sad Wasian” Trope; ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ Wins Best Picture at Asian Film Awards; A Morning With Peru’s Most Famous Artist; Black Designers Ignite Joy, Present Liquid Gold and Showcase Jamaican Roots During Milan Fashion Week; Colorful Paintings of Daily Life Uncovered in 4,300-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb

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Virtual Entertainment #186 (April 20)

In this issue: Kara Walker's Cut-Paper Silhouettes Are Haunted By Sexuality, Violence, and Subjugation; Native American Artist Tells Tale of Love, Identity Through Graphic Novel; How Daymé Arocena Left Cuba and Found a Freeing New Sound in Afro-Caribbean Pop; A Sweet-and-Sour Tofu That Balances It All, the Persian Way; FX's Shogun Takes A New Approach To An Old Story; The HBCU Edge: Alumni, Faculty, and Students Weigh In on How Their Training Prepared Them To Take Centerstage; 10 Fantastic Books in Translation from Haiti; New Series of Paintings by a Mexican Artist Unveiled at Over 400 Bus Shelters; Malaysia’s ‘Abang Adik’ Wins Top Prize at New York Asian Film Festival; Los Angeles Museum Returns Artifacts to Ghana That Were Taken by British Forces in 1874

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Virtual Entertainment #185 (April 13)

In this issue: Art and Resistance in Chile 50 Years After the Coup; For Designer Duro Olowu, Art Imitates Life; Mariko Mori on Yuputira House, Her Coral-Shaped Studio in Coastal Japan; How Queer Black Church Energy Is Explored in ‘I Am Delivered’T’; La Frontera: The Border Exhibition Employs Art To Put a Human Face on the Immigration Debate; Pew Research Center Presents: Redefining the Asian American Dream; From Malcolm X to ‘Reality Rap’: Decoding Hip-Hop Album Art; Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Outlines Early Details; Bowers Museum Unveils Largest Ever Collection of Asian Comics; Marshawn Lynch Starred in ‘Bottoms’ To Make Amends for the Way He Reacted to His Sister’s Coming Out

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Virtual Entertainment #184 (April 6)

In this issue: Ingrid Pollard Wins the World’s Biggest Photography Prize; ‘Exhuma’ Becomes Most Successful Korean Film In Vietnam; Bold Indonesian Cuisine Rolls Into the Mission — And More Bay Area Restaurant Openings; On ‘Cowboy Carter,’ Beyoncé Isn’t Going Country. She’s Reinventing American Music in Her Own Image; Nawal Mossalli’s Journey From Diplomat’s Daughter to Pioneering Painter; Luar, Willy Chavarría Among Latinos Rising in Fashion; How Lily Gladstone’s Nomination Could Impact Future Native American Representation; Henry Louis Gates Jr. Unpacks Black Literature’s ‘Black Box’; With His Own Original Musical ‘Música,’ Rudy Mancuso Creates a Singular New Movie; How Japan Spent More Than a Century Earthquake-Proofing Its Architecture

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Virtual Entertainment #183 (March 30)

In this issue: Speaking with Peruvian Artist Diana Contreras aka Didi; Jamie Brown-Soukaseume: A New Generation at the Helm of Southeast Asian American Cuisine.; The Great Blues Singer Gladys Bentley Broke All the Rules; Julio Torres’s Existential Comedy Understands the Absurdity of the American Dream; Shining a Light on Overlooked Black Women Photographers; How Cara Jade Myers’s SAG Awards Look Redefines 'Native Couture'; “A Call to the Ancestors” in Little Haiti Celebrates Those Who Came Before Us; Truck Art in Pakistan – A Photo Essay; Indigenous Musical 'Distant Thunder' To Release Singles For Streaming;

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Virtual Entertainment #182 (March 23)

In this issue: This Exhibition Celebrates a Decade of Feminist Photography; Danielle SeeWalker’s New Exhibition Challenges Indigenous Stereotypes; Kuma Nori is Unlike Any Other Bay Area Japanese Restaurant; Black Musicians Are Driving Australia's Rock 'n' Roll Revival; Latinx Files: When Movie Theaters Become Churches; How This Cult Japanese Artist’s Eerie Paintings Foretold Our Digital Malaise; A Dance About Gun Violence Is Touring Nationally With Alvin Ailey’s Company; Colorado State University Students Celebrate Black History Month With Fashion Show and Market; Bay Area Rapper Ruby Ibarra Launches Label To Amplify Filipino Voices; In Valparaiso, Chile, Murals Take Street Art to a Whole New Level

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Virtual Entertainment #181 (March 16)

In this issue: ‘We’re Going to Stand Up’: Queer Literature is Booming in Africa; Day In The Life of A Korean Fish Cake Master; 10 Bay Area Dance Productions Tackling Contemporary Complexity; The Queer Moroccan Art Star Who Shuns Paint and Works From His Bed; Nepalese Restaurants Are Almost Hidden in Plain Sight; DELACiiO Morphs From Rapper to Regional Mexican Music Standout; Takashi Miike Releases Secret Short Film; How Influential Critic Larry Neal Powered the Black Arts Movement; Nigeria’s New Museum of West African Art Questions the Future of Encyclopedic Museums; Jisoo Is the First Musician to Be the Face of This London Fashion House

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Virtual Entertainment #180 (March 9)

In this issue: Museums Are Reframing the Legacy of Black Art in 2024—Starting with the Harlem Renaissance; Spike Lee Told Cord Jefferson to Make Another Movie After ‘American Fiction’ as ‘Quickly as Possible’; Authors ‘Excluded From Hugo Awards Over China Concerns’; Musical Trio the Sampaguitas Brings Sounds of the Philippines to the U.S.; MIA Exhibit Explores Work of Gordon Parks, Who Started His Photography Career in Twin Cities; “Sabor Ártico: Latinos En Alaska” Is a Love Letter to Alaska and the Latinos Who Live There; Riken Yamamoto, Who Designs Dignity and Elegance Into Daily Life, Wins Pritzker Prize; In Tuscany, a Dinner to Celebrate Black Queer Artists; Celebrating Read Across America Week: Championing Diversity in Children's Literature; Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to Lead 2025 Broadway ‘Othello’

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Virtual Entertainment #179 (March 2)

In this issue: Detroit Artist Mario Moore Recontextualizes Black History Through Painting; Chinese Artists Reimagine Queer Photography; Jordan Dobson On the Challenges and Rewards of Being a Swing on Broadway; Inside South Korea's 2023 Seoul Con: Original Seoul; Why Diversity in Architecture Matters for Everyone; From Ballet to Blackjack, a Dance Pioneer’s Amazing Odyssey; With Rebellious, Romantic Songs, Xavi Creates His Own Genre of Latin Music; In Japan’s Age-Old Capital, a Young Head Chef Stirs the Pot; The Craft of Carving From Thorns, in the Flesh; ‘Some Like It Hot’ Wins Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album

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Virtual Entertainment #178 (February 25)

In this issue: Chef Kwame Onwuachi Explores His New York Roots at Tatiana; Juan Rulfo’s Revolution in Mexican Fiction; New Grammy Category for African Music Ignores Almost All of Africa; Film Highlights Taiwan’s Frontier Island Where Past, Future Mingle; Zanele Muholi’s Potent Portrait of South Africa’s Queer Community; This Team of Indigenous Women Sculpts Stories in Snow; At Ani Art Academy in the Dominican Republic, Students Have an Experience Unlike Any Other; Grassroots Efforts and an Emmy-Winning Film Help Indigenous Fight in Brazil; Black Theater IS Black History; Public and Private Politics in Vietnamese Art

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Virtual Entertainment #177 (February 17)

In this issue: Art, Colonialism and Change – The Royal Academy’s Most Radical Show; Lost Photographs of Black America, Found in a Swedish Bank Vault; The Vibey SoMa Restaurant That Put Persian Cuisine in the Bay Area on Michelin’s Map; Residential School Documentary 'Sugarcane' Wins Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival; Complicating the Narrative of Mental Illness Using Asian Mythology; Sicangu Lakota Rapper: Fighting Injustice and Sharing Indigenous Culture; Meet the Fashion Influencers of Climate Activism; The 7 Latino Films at Sundance 2024 To Keep an Eye Out For; 'The Color Purple' Casting Director on Auditioning for Musicals; India’s Art Market Is Thriving—Here’s Why

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Virtual Entertainment #176 (February 10)

In this issue: 5 African American Works of Art Everyone Should Know; Afro-Latines in Chicago Carry On Indigenous Roots Through Music and Fashion; ‘El Otro Oz’ Review: There’s No Place Like (Your Ancestral) Home; Artist Norberto Roldan Collages the Philippines’s Past and Present; Why the ‘Not Black Enough’ Debate Is Bad for Literature; Fixing Peter Pan...and Its 'Indian' Problem; Inside Barcelona’s Voodoo Club: The Underground Party Centring Black Joy; ‘A Way To Open Up to the World’: Gallery Galvanises Madagascar’s Art Scene; Kengo Kuma Sculpts Wooden Eaves for Higashikawa Community Plaza; T-Pain Says Racism Made Him Stop Taking Credit for Country Songs He Wrote

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Virtual Entertainment #175 (February 3)

In this issue: The Women Shaping Contemporary Art in the Gulf; ‘Genius: MLK/X’ Casts Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in a New Light; Leading Museums Remove Native Displays Amid New Federal Rules; Upcoming 'Ghibli's Dining Table' Cookbook Features Recipes From 'Kiki's Delivery Service'; The Frida Kahlo Effect: Why the Mexican Artist Is Still a Pop-Cultural Icon Today; These Three African Photographers Are Celebrating the Birthplace of Coffee; Venice Art Biennale 2024 Exhibition Spotlights Indigenous and Diasporic Artists; Classical Music Meets Korean Tradition; Chita Rivera, Showstopping Legend of Broadway Musicals, Dies at 91; Grace Yee Wins $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia’s Richest Literary Award

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Virtual Entertainment #174 (January 27)

In this issue: Meet the South Korean Artist Using Her Own Body as a Canvas; Bringing a Diversity of Hip-Hop Dance to the Concert Stage; Pianist Jahari Stampley Won a Prestigious Jazz Competition - He’s Only 24; Street Art On the US-Mexico Border; Winners of the People Photography Award Embrace the Diverse Beauty of Humanity; A New Omakase Destination Emphasizes Edomae-Style Sushi in Palo Alto; ‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’ Isn’t Just a Movie — It’s an Immersive Experience; “Champion of Equity and Inclusion” - Ghanaian-Scottish Architect Receives 2024 RIBA Royal Gold Medal; Paris To Get New Fair for Latin American Art Next September; This Bangladeshi Restaurant Showcases the Range of the Country’s Cuisine

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Virtual Entertainment #173 (January 20)

In this issue: Raehann Bryce-Davis Lights Up Herbst Theater With Wagner, Beach, Thomson Corely - Jan 27; A Century of Mexican Creativity at Art Basel Hong Kong; Costumes, Color and Singing Candidates — Welcome to a Taiwanese Election; Donald Glover and Maya Erskine Debut New, More Relatable Mr. & Mrs. Smith; ‘The Mongol Khan,’ Mongolia’s ‘Soft Power’ Drive Arrives in London; An Artist Combines Indigenous Textiles With Modern Tech; How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets; Willows & Pine Traces Its Roots to One of Oakland’s Original Soul Food Destinations; Five of the Best Postcolonial Novels; ‘Faces of Sanxingdui’: Bronze Age Relics Shed Light on Mysterious Ancient Kingdom

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Virtual Entertainment #172 (January 13)

In this issue: 5 Breakthrough Artists Making Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Public Art; Ethiopian Culture Explored With Medieval Icons, Haile Selassie’s Cloak and Scratch-and-Sniff Cards; Smoke Machines, Idols and a Makeshift Temple: Meet Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, the ‘Bad Boy of Ceramics’; A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s Clerics; The Art World Rediscovers Surrealist Painter Leonor Fini; 47-Year-Old Learned To Cook in Prison—Now His California Restaurant Brings In Over $1 Million a Year; ‘How To Dance in Ohio’ Is a Broadway Musical Starring 7 Autistic Actors; ‘Hollywood Doesn’t Change Overnight’: Indigenous Viewers on Killers of the Flower Moon; Queer South Asian Writer Among Finalists for Governor General Literary Awards; La Frontera: Artists Along the U.S.- Mexico Border

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Virtual Entertainment #171 (December 16)

In this issue: A Year of Protest in Nicaragua through Art; DapperQ: Ungendering Fashion in New Mexico, New York, and Beyond; Indigenous Filmmakers Make Their Mark at Santa Fe International Film Festival; Peru Exhibit Delves Beyond Incas’ Stereotypical Warlike Image; Osamu Dazai's 'No Longer Human' Captures the Paradox of the Social Loner; Rachel Eulena Williams Melds Mediums To Explore Modern Femininity; ‘Nothing Like This Has Been Attempted Before’: Behind the Buena Vista Social Club Musical; Landmark Exhibition Gives Sri Lankan Art a Long-Overdue Voice on Global Stage; Nigerian-Irish Poet Opens Up About Challenges Faced by Young Migrants; The Story Of India’s First Bharatnatyam Dance Opera

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Virtual Entertainment #170 (December 9)

In this issue: Why Abdulrahman Yusuf Won’t Quit on Lagos; How ‘Blue Eye Samurai’s’ Exploration of Mixed Race Identity Helps It “Break All of the Boxes” in Animated Storytelling; Sur-Urbano: A Podcast for Latin American Cities; Translating Traditional Korean Movement to ‘a Language for Our Time’; This Unique Supper Club Honors the Work of Enslaved Chefs Throughout History.; The Life and Work of Norval Morrisseau: The Mishomis of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Canada; Documenting How Artisans in Puerto Rico Sustain Native Culture; The Nascent Art of Flower Arranging in Kenya; The Filipino American Creatives Who Are Reclaiming the Barong; Spike Lee Is Brooklyn’s Favorite Son: A Q&A with the Legend

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Virtual Entertainment #169 (December 2)

In this issue: Secretive Power Plant in Taiwan Opens to Public for the First Time — As an Art Space; How Notorious Cree Is Elevating Indigenous Voices Through TikTok; Pulitzer-Winner Colson Whitehead on His New Novel ‘Crook Manifesto’ and the Writing Life; Adura Onashile’s Debut Film On Violence and Racism in Glasgow; Taishoken Ramen Brings 60-Year Legacy to San Francisco From Tokyo; New Broadway Play Showcases Story of Immigrant Hair Braiders of Jaja’s Harlem Salon; Artist Ken Gun Min on His Perspective as a Gay Asian First-Generation Immigrant From South Korea; Tracy Chapman Wins CMA Award for ‘Fast Car’ Decades After Song’s Debut; First U.S. Indigenous Fashion Week Launching in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Raranga - The Māori Art of Weaving

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Virtual Entertainment #168 (November 25)

In this issue: Congolese Arts Refuge Helps Street Children Find Their Voice; Highlights From the 2023 Miss Universe Pageant’s National Costume Competition; ‘Bulrusher’ Is an Evocative Play Examining American Tumult; An Interview With Lakota Artist Dyani White Hawk: A 2023 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow; Early Chinese Ceramics: The Sedgwick Collection; ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due With New Production of Pathbreaking Malcolm X Opera; Exploring the Golden Age of Vietnamese Modern Art; The Artist Demanding Accountability and Restoration for Peru’s Worst Oil Spill; Black Artists Find AI-Generated Images Of Black People Are Inaccurate And Distorted; Taiwanese Artist Makes Waves in France With Acclaimed Political Satire

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Virtual Entertainment #167 (November 18)

In this issue: ‘We Lost Control of Who We Were.’ Why Phillip Lim’s Return to Fashion Matters; Oakland’s First and Only Haitian Restaurant Is a Knockout; Maria Tallchief, Member of the Osage Nation and the First Prima Ballerina, Dances Onto U.S. Quarters; ‘Suzume’ Success Built on Growing Impact of Japanese Animation: ‘Shinkai’s Movies Have Power to Stimulate Empathy’; Gender Flip and Terrific Star Make Sondheim’s ‘Company’ Better Than Ever; The Untapped Potential of America’s Largest Edible Native Fruit; The Latino Presence in American Art; Celebrating the Legacy of Black Southern Writing With Khalisa Rae; A Mirror Into Time: Malaysian Artist’s Moving Art of Ageing and Separation; Tiwa Savage Becomes First Female Afrobeats Star To Headline London’s Iconic Wembley Arena In “Full Circle” Moment

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Virtual Entertainment #166 (November 11)

In this issue: At SFMOMA, Pacita Abad’s Painted Textiles Stare Right Back; In Just Three Years, the Black British Book Festival Became Europe’s Largest Black Literature Festival; India’s Classical Music Takes Center Stage in Spotify’s Echo Campaign; Sohla El-Waylly's Debut Cookbook Gives Us All Permission to Be Imperfect; Bayard Rustin Movie Spotlights Contributions of Black, Queer Civil Rights Activists; At the National Gallery, a Belated Corrective for Native American Art; Can Photography Build Peace? The Case From Thailand; The Riotous Art of Jean-Pierre Villafañe; ‘Treason,’ the Musical Where the Fans Came First; NASA Rejected Him 11 Times Before Making Him an Astronaut. Now His Life Story Is a Movie

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Virtual Entertainment #165 (November 4)

In this issue: Where Hokusai and Hip-Hop Intersect; Bobsled Comedy Cool Runnings at 30, as Told By Its Stars; Latino Theater Company To Grant $9 Million in Funding Latino Theater Programs Nationwide; Nigerian Stylist Momo Hassan-Odukale Brings Us Through Lagos Fashion Week; How Arab Funk Is Going Global; Hispanic Winemakers Of Oregon Express Passion For The Land, Legacy And Cuisine; Two Overlooked Asian Artists Who Left a Mark on Modern British Art Celebrated With UK Exhibitions; Upcoming Doc ‘Without Arrows’ Aims to Break Down Native American Stereotypes; On Puerto Rican Literature and "Abyssal Exclusion"; An-My Le Turns Her Lens on Vietnam

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Virtual Entertainment #164 (October 28)

In this issue: New Seoul Exhibition Brings Together Titans of Latin American Art; Wendy Red Star Introduces Kimowan Metchewais Through Indigenous Photography Exhibition; At 40, She Quit Her Job as a Public Defender To Launch a Singing Career. She Just Played Lollapalooza; The Legacy Of Afro-Brazilian Artist Emanoel Araújo; J. Kenji López-Alt Wins James Beard Media Award for ‘The Wok’; Robert O'Hara on Directing Richard III; World’s Largest Syrian Refugee Camp Gets Music Program, Recording Studio; Sharp Edged White Volumes Compose Iroje KHM’s Sailing House in South Korea; 9 Black TV Hosts Who Helped Shape Television; How 5 Top AAPI Chefs Are Putting a New Spin on Fusion Cuisine

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Virtual Entertainment #163 (October 21)

In this issue: Indigenous Artists Stood Tall in the Wake of Nuclear Testing; Sur-realism: Rethinking Documentary From a Latin American Perspective; How This Dream-Like Photo Challenges Notions of the Male Gaze; What Was California’s Black Arts Movement and Why Was It Important?; Meet the Chef Capturing Slow-Paced Peranakan Cuisine From Fast-Paced Singapore; The Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books for Fall 2023: Myriam Gurba, Isle McElroy, Justin Torres, and More; An 1837 Portrait of an Enslaved Child, Obscured by Overpainting for a Century, Has Been Restored and Acquired by the Met; How This All-Female Indonesian Band Is Using Metal Music To Inspire Change; How a ’90s Film About the Black Experience in Oakland Is Getting a Second Life; Iwan Baan’s First Major Retrospective Launching at Vitra Design Museum

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Virtual Entertainment #162 (October 14)

In this issue: A New Guatemalan Restaurant Brings Central American Flavors to El Cerrito; Indigenous Creativity Shone at the 101st Santa Fe Indian Market; Jonathon Heyward To Debut As First Black Music Director of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Artist Travels Across the U.S. To Capture Portraits and Ask for Life Advice From 1,000 Strangers Along the Way; British Museum Agrees To Pay Translator Whose Work It Used Without Permission; Reviews for ‘Man Suang’ Are In: The Thai Film at Cannes 2023 Debuts in Thailand; This Sacramento Book Store Is Defending Black and LGBTQ Literature During Banned Books Week; New West Berkeley Mural Is a Repeated Hindi Prayer; Tairroir, JL Studio Are First Taiwanese Restaurants To Receive 3 Michelin Stars; Famed Iranian Director Sentenced to Prison Over Cannes Film Festival Screening

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Virtual Entertainment #161 (October 7)

In this issue: Advertising Is Missing Black Women. Bassie Maluleka Aims To Change That, in Front of and Behind the Lens; Director Junyi Xiao on His 2024 Oscars Short Film Contender ‘Tomato Kitchen’; Grammy Awards Add Best African Music Performance Category As Sounds of the Continent Receive Global Acclaim; On the Hudson, Visions for a New Native American Art; Akutagawa Prize for Author Ichikawa Makes Disability Visible; Two 10th-Century Stone Idols, Which Were Stolen From a Temple in India and Found in a Garden Shed in the U.K., Will Be Repatriated; The Black Kitchen Series: Celebrating the Legacy of Black Food through Storytelling; What Egyptian Hip-Hop Says About the Country a Decade After the Military Coup; Broadway Star Quits US Musical About Tiananmen Protests During China Tour; Snoop Dogg and E-40 Collaborate on New Cookbook 'Goon with the Spoon'

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Virtual Entertainment #160 (June 10)

In this issue: MoMA’s ‘New Photography’ Show Returns, Sharper than Before, with a Focus on Lagos; 'Land of Gold' Creator-Star Nardeep Khurmi on a Surprising Inspiration for His Gorgeous Road Movie; 6 New Books To Celebrate AAPI Month; Crocker Art Museum Opens New Exhibit Celebrating Black Artists; Composer Mina Samy Becomes First Egyptian To Rank Top 5 at “Call for Score” Competition; French Singer Yseult On Challenging Fashion Norms at Cannes; ‘LGBTQIA(sian)’ Explores Queer and Asian Identities Through Theater; Engineer Hopes To Revive ‘Dyeing’ Indonesian Art Form With Batik Machine; Tracing a Rich History of Black American Cuisine in Edna Lewis’ Footsteps; River Claure Creates an Otherworldly Vision of Bolivia’s Complex Identity

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Virtual Entertainment #159 (June 3)

In this issue: Nebraska Sculptor Will Be First African American With Work Displayed in Statuary Hall; The Killers of the Flower Moon Cast Spotlighted Indigenous Design at Cannes; A ‘Food Forest’ Rises on an Empty Mattapan Lot, and Draws a Visit From the Mayor; Beatrix Potter’s Famous Tales Are Rooted in Stories Told by Enslaved Africans; Mabe Fratti: The Cellist on the Importance of Imperfection and Going to Extremes; Black Arts Festival Brings ‘Rich and Relevant’ Black Stories to San Diego Theater Community; Cannes Critics’ Week Celebrates Mexican Cinema’s ‘Vibrant Energy’ With Morelia Shorts; Eyes That Kiss in the Corner Encourages Readers To See Their Bodies As Their Stories; Dallas Black Dance Theatre Premieres Chanel DaSilva Work Inspired by Black Lives Matter; MSG Is the Most Misunderstood Ingredient of the Century. That’s Finally Changing

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Virtual Entertainment #158 (May 27)

In this issue: The Indigenous Activist Who Demanded Inclusion for All LGBTQ+ People; Rina Banerjee Confronts the Orientalizing Gaze; Janelle Monáe Highlights Queer Love and Community.Welcomes Racy “Lipstick Lover” Video; Japan Author Murakami Wins Spain's Prestigious Award; Stained Glass Window Shows Jesus Christ With Dark Skin, Stirring Questions About Race in New England; ‘Ted Lasso’ Actor Nick Mohammed To Make U.S. Live Performance Debut At NYC’s Town Hall; Camilo Lara on How Mexico’s Musical ‘Double Agent’ Seeks a Universal Dance Floor; The High-Risk Feat of Bringing ‘American Born Chinese’ to TV; US Postal Service Honors Native American Civil Rights Leader Chief Standing Bear; A Legendary Manhattan Dinner Party Where Black Luminaries Break Bread

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Virtual Entertainment #157 (May 20)

In this issue: A Complex Survey of the Caribbean Diaspora in Chicago Goes Beyond Geographical Boundaries; Ana Villafañe, Joel Perez, Martín Solá, More Set for Concert Reading of Azul: A Bilingual Musical; Ann Lowe, First Black Fashion Designer, Immortalized in Ohio State Collection; New Project Seeks To Bring South Asian Literature to Western Readers; Taiwanese Heavy Metal Band Chthonic Featured in Grammy Music Program; How Amber Midthunder Celebrated Native American Designers at Yaamava' Fashion Daze; Young Immigrants Are the Stars of a New Cooking Competition Show; A Lost Interview with Great Brazilian Author Clarice Lispector; Largest Powwow Draws Indigenous Dancers to New Mexico; Seizures of Looted Art Have Made Potential Buyers and Sellers of Antiquities Apprehensive

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Virtual Entertainment #156 (May 13)

In this issue: Sacred Contemporary Aboriginal Art From Australia At Gruin Gallery in Los Angeles; Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing; The Unstoppable Appeal of Peso Pluma and the Regional Mexican Music Scene; Like Music, Nigerian Literature Has Become A Global Brand –Chika Unigwe; ‘Actor Is A Genderless Word’: Tony-Nominee Alex Newell Says Change In Broadway Is Coming; At the Mission Art and Comic Expo, ‘Hella Chicano Artists’ Rep a Local Scene; Misty Copeland, Kara Mack, and Rennie Harris: A Conversation on Dance and Solidarity; Scholastic Wanted To License Her Children’s Book — If She Cut a Part About ‘Racism’; In Majority-Black New Orleans, Chefs Are Rewriting ‘Whitewashed’ History; School Plays on Race and LGBTQ Issues Are Being Pressured To Shut Down

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Virtual Entertainment #155 (May 6)

In this issue: Qualeasha Wood’s Multi-Layered Tapestries Explore What It Means to Be Black, Queer, and ‘Chronically Online’; I'm More Than Tacos: Chefs Work to Demystify and Diversify Mexican Cuisine; Indigenous Art Sales Have Dropped After Allegations of Interference by White Staff at Tjala Arts; Guide to Films, Food and More at CAAMFest 2023, From ‘Joy Ride’ to Michelle Yeoh’s Next Project; What a Future-Set Chicano Noir Inspired by ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Tells Us About the Present; Meet The Woman Behind Some Of The Biggest Black Art Exhibits In America; Taihang Xinyu Art Museum Organically Grows Out of Its Rugged Topography in Rural China; Unreleased Prince Music to Feature at Paisley Park’s ‘Celebration 2023’; "Getting the Truth to Our Students": Black Historian Marvin Dunn to Distribute Banned Books; This Vegetarian Cookbook Showcases the Diversity of Japanese Cuisine

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Virtual Entertainment #154 (April 29)

In this issue: Oum Jeongsoon Wins Park Seo-Bo Prize for Collaboration With the Visually Impaired; ‘Black Is Beautiful’ Photographer Kwame Brathwaite Has Died at 85; The Folly of Censoring “Joyland,” a Sublime Film About Family; Taiwanese Author’s English Debut is a Musical Journey of Self-Discovery; For Native American Chefs, Recognition Inspires a Wider Reckoning; Basquiat and Warhol’s Friendship Unfolds in Latest Fondation Louis Vuitton Exhibition; Malia Obama Developing Short Film at Donald Glover’s Company; As Leader of Sextet, Portland Musician Mali Obomsawin Leans Into Jazz, Indigenous Influences; New Musical ‘My Heart Says Go’ Launches New Model for Accessibility in the Arts; Tommy Kha’s Portraits Blend His Asian Heritage With the Mythology of the South

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Virtual Entertainment #153 (April 22)

In this issue: Berkeley Student-Curated Exhibition Showcases Complexity of Inherited Language; Aboriginal Art Show Reviewed After Alleged Contributions by Non-Indigenous Workers; Bispo Do Rosario’s Posthumous U.S. Debut Sidesteps Disputes in Brazil Over Whether His Compulsive Creations Were “Art”; The Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective Celebrates 50 Years Of Hip Hop; A Beginner’s Guide to Dōjinshi; “Intoxicating”: Pedro Pascal on Starring in New Queer Western by Almodóvar; The Modern Movement to Spotlight Ladakh, India's Rich Cuisine; Osamuskwasis’s Colorful Clothes Are a Celebration of Indigenous Joy; Country Music’s Next Stars Are Latino; Students Propose Bamboo Flood-Responsive Housing in Karachi

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Virtual Entertainment #152 (April 15)

In this issue: African American History Museum's New Book and Exhibit on Afrofuturism; A 106-Year-Old From the Philippines Is Vogue’s Oldest Ever Cover Model; 'Champion’ Is Not Your Grandmother’s Metropolitan Opera; After Decades of Invisibility, Khmer Cuisine Is Primed to Rise in the Bay; Joyland: An Emotional and Groundbreaking Queer Drama from Pakistan; France’s First Retrospective of ‘Total Artist’ Isamu Noguchi Opens at Musée LaM; 20 Must-Read Indigenous Historical Fiction Books Set in North America; In Chinese Photography, Political Anguish Made Physical; The Many Labyrinths of Alejandro Iñarritu’s Oscar-Nominated “Bardo”; A Guide to Abu Dhabi's World-class Museums and Galleries

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Virtual Entertainment #151 (April 8)

In this issue: Artist Secretly Paints Hummingbirds on Walls in Peru for People To Discover; Discover Japandi Fusion Cuisine at Edgewater’s New Petite Comite Restaurant; Pokémon Reimagined As Traditional Japanese Artifacts at National Crafts Museum Kanazawa; Durand Jones Celebrates Black Queer Love With ‘That Feeling’; Marvel Comics Honors George Pérez's Legacy With New Variant Covers Featuring His Iconic Artwork; ‘Great Wave’ Print Sells for $2.76 Million, Setting New Record for Hokusai; ‘A Snowy Day in Oakland’ Explores a ‘Taboo Topic’ in Some Communities; A Powerful Voice in Theater Returns to Berkeley Rep; Tianna Esperanza’s Uphill Climb to Conquering ‘Terror’; What Makes Pathare Prabhu Cuisine Mumbai’s Best Kept Secret

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Virtual Entertainment #150 (April 1)

In this issue: Mickalene Thomas on Using Art To Highlight Beauty of Black Women; ‘Joy Ride’ Review: Outrageous Asian American Comedy Gives Fresh Foursome a Chance to Cut Loose; Workers at the Hispanic Society Museum Vote To Strike Following Stalled Negotiations for a Union Contract; Joshua Baraka Is Ugandan Music’s Next Big Thing; Abi Balingit’s Cookbook Mayumu Is an Ode to the Sweet Side of Filipino Cuisine; President Biden Designates Two New National Monuments in Land Home to Ancient Indigenous Art; Tokyo Fashion Week Street Style Rejects Every Fashion Rule You’ve Ever Heard; The Work of 34 Black Artists From the American South Is Conjured Out of Found Objects, Plant Juice, Even Dirt; New Moai Statue Found on Easter Island, Opening the Possibility of More to Be Discovered; Snobbery About Audience Behaviour Stifles Theatre – It’s a Collective Experience

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Virtual Entertainment #149 (March 25)

In this issue: Explore the Ancient Art of Kumihimo, a Traditional Japanese Braiding Technique; After the Oscars’ Controversial ‘Naatu Naatu’ Performance, South Asian Dancers Are Fighting for Representation; Portland Art Museum Changes Policy After Karuk Mother Speaks Out; SF's Queer, Filipina-Owned Chocolate Shop Celebrates Love Year-Round; The Crucial Takeaway From the Backlash Against 'Creed III' Stars; Towards a Definition of First Nations Fashion; The Interior Lives of Black Homes; Joseph Young Makes Oakland Symphony Debut; Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa Becomes First Spanish-Speaking Author Inducted Into Académie Française; How a Nigerian Singer and a Cameroonian Dancer Inspired a Powerful New Protest in Iran

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Virtual Entertainment #148 (March 18)

In this issue: In Oakland, Afrofuturist Fiction Is Now Available by Vending Machine; 12 Global Queer Art Shows Worth Traveling for in 2023; iLe and Ivy Queen: Two Puerto Rican Powerhouses Unite on ‘Algo Bonito’; Why Some Black Playwrights Are Saying Their Shows Must Not Go On; How South Korean Comics App Webtoon Became a Content Powerhouse; Rapper Kanis Comes Out, Highlighting Haitian Community’s Evolving Attitudes; Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments; The Woman Preserving the Endangered Cuisine of Indian Jews; AAFCA Awards: ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,’ ‘Till,’ ‘Emancipation’ Among Top Winners; Major New Museum in India Tackles Art World Bias and the Male Gaze

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Virtual Entertainment #147 (March 11)

In this issue: Wu Tsang’s Queer Take on ‘Moby-Dick’; A New Food Truck Brings Indigenous Mexican Flavors to San Jose; ‘I Sang the Facts,’ Says Jully Black About 1-Word Change to O Canada at NBA All-Star Game; An Installation of Clothes, Cardboard, Plywood, and Porcelain Takes Over the Japan Society; The BIPOC Critics Lab Will Launch First Cohort at The Public Theater; 10 Underrecognized Women Artists Who Shaped Abstract Expressionism Internationally; South Korean Film ‘Hommage’ Looks to Lost Names and Memories; Tadao Ando, Sou Fujimoto, and SANAA’s Architecture Recreated As Japanese Bento Boxes; World Photography Organisation Reveals Latin America Professional Award Finalists; Madagascan Artist Joël Andrianomearisoa Has Quietly Honed His Practice for Decades. Why Is He Suddenly Everywhere?

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Virtual Entertainment #146 (March 4)

In this issue: "Ferguson Rises" Screens in Oakland, March 7 & 8; London Fashion Week Highlights: Baby Bumps, Inflatable Trousers and Theatrical Performances; In Her New Show, Indigenous Artist Rose B. Simpson Paves Her Own Path; Theatre Communications Group Announces New Structure and Board Trustees, Including Black Trans Liberation Founder; Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction: A Reading by 6 Award Winning Authors on March 10; Raghavan Iyer Taught Americans to Cook Indian Food. Now He’s on His Final Chapter.; Singaporean Director Tan Wei Ting's "Love at Fifty" Featured In OGS Short Film Showcase; How Polly Irungu Created Space For Black Women Photographers; BroadwayHD Event Celebrates Lea Salonga's Birthday.; Halle Bailey Says Backlash to Her Being Cast As Ariel in ‘Little Mermaid’ Was ‘Not Really a Shock’

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Virtual Entertainment #145 (February 25)

In this issue: Australian Aboriginal Art That Transports You to Another World; Celebrating Black Artists on Broadway; LensCulture’s Art Photography Awards 2023 – In Pictures; Gustavo Dudamel, Star Maestro, to Leave L.A. for New York Philharmonic; A Black Resistance Reading List, Curated by Lovers of Black Literature; How LA Got Its Unique Soul Food Taste; The Romance Filmmakers Who Redefined Bollywood’s Quintessential Genre; Mexican American Students Fought Racism in a 1969 Walkout – Crystal City 1969 Dredges the Overlooked History.; DC Universe Expands To Include More Diverse Roster of Writers and Illustrators; In a Bid To Become a Destination for Latino Art, the Blanton Museum in Texas Just Acquired More Than 5,000 Works

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Virtual Entertainment #144 (February 18)

In this issue: Àsìkò Explores Yoruba Culture Through Mythology; How Cece Liu, Ron Hartleben and More Celebrate the Alternative Popstar Through Subversively Feminine Fashion; An Artist Who Blends Secular and Sacred (With Sequins); Indigenous Voices in Publishing; Comedian and Social Scientist Mona Aburmishan: How Comedy Unoccupied Me; How Ballroom Dance Became a ‘Social Safe Space’ for Asian American Elders; BET Announces ‘Black + Iconic: Style Gods’ Documentary Featuring Billy Porter; Josué Rivas on Throwing a Glitch in the Social Media Matrix; Pharrell Williams Will Be Louis Vuitton’s Next Men’s Creative Director; The Woman Behind Historic Super Bowl Mural Art

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Virtual Entertainment #143 (February 11)

In this issue: A Parisian Wanderer with a Humanist Lens; Meg Medina Is First Latina Ambassador for Young People’s Literature; Caribbean-Jamaican Restaurant Ranks Third on List of Best Restaurants in New York’s Times Square; Oregon Shakes Restructures, Scales Back With Eye to Future; 11 Indigenous Films Featured at 2023 Sundance Film Festival; The Nomadic Museum Championing Queer Art Practices in Romania; Eve L. Ewing Becomes First Black Woman To Write ‘Black Panther’ Comic Series; How the Whitney’s Top Latino Curator Is Shaking Up the Art World; Florida Rejects AP African-American Studies Course—Here’s What It Actually Teaches; A Video of a Kid Singing Showtunes Went Viral, Helping Him Get to Broadway

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Virtual Entertainment #142 (February 4)

In this issue: What Does Collectivist Art Look Like?; Nonbinary Broadway Performer Opts Out of Gendered Tony Awards; Cartier Foundation To Present Photo Exhibition Of Yanomami Culture By Claudia Andujar; Afrochella Is Not Ending. Instead, Rebranding To 'Afro Future Fest'; Plum Village Releases Documentary "I Have Arrived, I am Home" After Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's Passing; The Sioux Chef’s Owamni Restaurant Wows Critics – And Decolonizes Cuisine; DEATH IS NOT THE END Exhibit Explores the Art of Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity, Opens March 17; The Year of the Water Rabbit Calls For Honoring Afro-Asian Intersections; 'The Last of Us' Praised for Casting Indonesian Actors in Jakarta-Set Scene; Shocking Before-and-After Images Show Massive Destruction to Brazil’s Iconic Modernist Buildings

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Virtual Entertainment #141 (January 28)

In this issue: Resting Our Eyes: An Exhibit Celebrating Black Women, Running 1/21 - 6/25; Filmmaker Kimberlee Bassford Explores Honolulu's Chinatown; Eleven-Year-Old Jude Kofie Displays Prodigal Piano Skills With No Lessons; A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job.; Louis Vuitton Unveils New Collection With Contemporary Artist Yayoi Kusama; Ian Cheibub’s Project “Golgotha” Is a Probing Look at the Rise of Evangelicalism in Brazil; Asian Actors and Filmmakers Dominate Oscar Nominations; Reshi’s AI-Illustrated Children’s Book Receives Backlash From Artists; Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Singers of All Time; Gwen Stefani Claims Japanese Identity Fourteen Years After the Debut of Her Harajuku Lovers Fragrance Collection

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Virtual Entertainment #140 (January 21)

In this issue: 18 of the Best Black Art Books of 2022; How Sean Sherman’s Modern Indigenous Kitchen Became the Best New Restaurant in the United States; A Failure to Change: Two Reports Examine Hollywood’s Lack of Progress Improving Diversity on Movie Sets; ‘Determined To Have Her Story Told’: Retrospective Casts New Light on Yayoi Kusama’s Seven-Decade Career; ‘The Magic Flute’ Directs Its Whimsy Toward the Younger Set; One of Taiwan’s Biggest Pop Stars Sings in an Indigenous Language; Within Himself, an African Photographer Finds Multitudes; Bringing Diego Rivera's Watercolors to Life with Toztli Abril de Dios; Ballet Hispánico on Reimagining Heteronormativity in Dance; Looted Ancient Sarcophagus Returned to Egypt From US

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Virtual Entertainment #139 (January 14)

In this issue: Inside South Korea’s Art-Mad Capital; Nordine Makhloufi’s New Photo Book Captures the Glamour of Queer Paris Nightlife; An Interview with Norm Lewis on Theatre Life; Toronto Library to Weave Traditional Indigenous Customs With Advanced Technology, Sustainable Practices; Angela Bassett and the Oscars: When Overdue Is an Understatement; Pointe's Standout Ballet Performers of 2022; Supernatural America: From Native American Spiritual Traditions to Afrofuturism; The Ethics of AI Art; The New York Times Responds to KPOP Review Controversy; Henrietta Lacks’ Hometown Will Build Statue of Her To Replace Robert E. Lee Monument

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Virtual Entertainment #138 (January 7)

In this issue: Iranian Artist's Surreal Paintings of Women Take On a New Sense of Urgency; Let Freedom Ring! with Leslie Odom, Jr: A Musical Tribute to MLK; HBO Max Latin America Orders 'Batman Azteca: Choque de Imperios'; Day In The Life of A Taiwanese Master Chef; The American Museum of Natural History Appoints a Biophysical Chemist and College President as the First Black Leader in Its History; 62 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2023; A New Show of Contemporary Mexican Design Explores the Explosive Scene on Its Own Terms; He Built a Global Fashion Brand-Before He Passed His College Finals; What Trevor Noah's Black Theater Night Talkback Revealed About 'A Strange Loop'; Can a Literary Festival Bring Nepali Literature to the International Stage?

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Virtual Entertainment #137 (December 31)

In this issue: The “Double-Edged Sword” of Telling Black History in Film; Boston Mural Pays Tribute to Afro-Latino Artists; Satay and Sambal: 12 Foods Every Indonesia Visitor Should Try; Congressman Joaquin Castro on ‘Highlighting Latin Music Brilliance’ in National Recording Registry; 20 Must-Read Audiobooks With Indigenous Narrators; Rachel Duckett and Thando Mjandana Win The Voice of Black Opera Awards; ‘Iscariot: The Musical’ Is a Heretical Gaysian Love Story; Black Foodie Finder Launches A One-Stop-Site For Black Food Lovers; New Film ‘Life Is Art’ Documents Rancho Mirage Resident Pepe Serna’s Impact on Hollywood; Smithsonian Exhibits Enduring Legacy of Celia Cruz, the ‘Queen of Salsa’

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Virtual Entertainment #136 (December 24)

In this issue: A Gurugram Home Anchored by Indian Art; Japanese Animation 'One Piece Film: Red' Wins the Weekend Box Office in China; Broadway's Audra McDonald-Led 'Ohio State Murders' Will Benefit Black Arts and Culture Orgs in New York; How Indigenous Photographers Are Taking Native American Identity Back From The Colonizers; Chita Rivera Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors; Pathbreaking Books About Black Music Win Major Honors for Brooks, Shelley; This Thai Artist Marries the Sacred and the Sensual; Piece of Earliest Known Black-Produced Film Found Hiding in Plain Sight; Meet Grace Young, the Wok Guru Fighting To Save America’s Chinatowns; A Black Father Is Bringing “Daddy and Me” Day to the Philadelphia Ballet

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Virtual Entertainment #135 (December 17)

In this issue: A New Boom of Horror Literature From Latin America; Cauleen Smith Receives Heinz Award for Pushing the Boundaries of Film; She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On.; Eun Sun Kim Leads SF Opera in Dazzling New 'La Traviata'; Oakland Museum of California Gifted Native American Photographer Dugan Aguilar’s Personal Archive; YouTuber Steven He Co-Creates Series Featuring All-AANHPI Cast; Why the Bésame Mucho Festival Created a Cultural Moment; From Pop-Up Chef to TV Star, Daniel Harthausen Wins Big on HBO Max’s ‘The Big Brunch’; Angela Watson Talks San Francisco Ballet, Inspiring Young African American Dancers; Christine Heesun Hwang, a Queer Asian American Woman, Inspires As Éponine in Les Misérables

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Virtual Entertainment #134 (December 10)

In this issue: LGBTQ Artists Challenge Social Norms in the Arab World; Virgil Ortiz's Sirens - Secret Passkeys and Portals Installation at Meow Wolf; Solange’s Debut as a New York Ballet Composer Was a Dynamic, Down-Home Display of Drama; ‘Magic Mirror’: Hidden Image Revealed in Reflection of Centuries-Old Asian Artifact; Canadian Queer Asian Collective New Ho Queen On Partying For Visibility; A Writer’s Post On Feminism and Transgender Rights Divide Latin American Literary Circles; On the Road With Lebanon’s First All-Women Thrash Metal Group; How Indigenous Restaurants Are Decolonizing Seattle’s Dining Scene, One Plate at a Time; ‘Nanny’ Employs African Folklore in a Haunting Black Horror Film; Cast of Broadway's ‘1776’ perform 'Sit Down, John'

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Virtual Entertainment #133 (December 3)

In this issue: Mark Bradford: Something Must Be Done; 2 Years After Racism Outcry, Indianapolis Embraces Black Artists; Redhawk Indigenous Arts Council Celebrates Native American Heritage; From Family-Run Mexican Restaurant to Southwest Phenomenon; ‘It Chips Away at You’: Misty Copeland on the Whiteness of Ballet; SF Opera Showcases Zulu Culture of Iconic Soprano Pretty Yende; Meet the Tattoo Artists Who Champion Body Positivity; The Bay Area Night Market Where Hong Kong-Style Street Food Comes to Life; The Visions of Octavia Butler; Ingjin San’s Designs Raise Awareness of Myanmar’s Civil War

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Virtual Entertainment #132 (November 26)

In this issue: Minnita Daniel-Cox, University of Dayton – Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Artist Legacy; How Iranian Artist Taher Asad-Bakhtiari’s Recycled Barrels and Tribal-Inspired Tapestries Celebrate His Heritage; 'In Our Mothers' Gardens' Explores the Secret Lives of Black Women; Margarita Engle Explores What It’s Like To Be an Outsider in ‘Singing With Elephants’; ‘Artists X Advocacy’ Panel Illuminates Asian Art and Music Representation During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Misty Copeland On Unsung Heroes and Her New Foundation; Rose B. Simpson Thinks in Clay; 'Fire Island' Puts An Asian-Led LGBTQ Spin On 'Pride And Prejudice'; 2021 Nobel Literature Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah on Colonialism & the Power of Language; Beyoncé’s ‘Break My Soul’ Pays Homage To House Music’s Black Queer Roots

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Virtual Entertainment #131 (November 19)

In this issue: Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival: Mezquite’s Heart; Meet the Arab Women of Determination Giving a Deeper Meaning to Body Positivity; In ‘Horse,’ Geraldine Brooks Sets a Consideration of Race at the Track; The Japanese Photographer Who Shrink-Wraps Entire Families – And Their Homes; Everything Rises; ‘Ante Body’ Asks Us To Be More Open to the World; The Cherokee Nation Reckons With Its History of Slavery in a New Exhibit; Life’s Work: An Interview with Vera Wang; The Human Eyeborg: Neil Harbisson at TEDxGateway; St. Louis’ Angad Arts Hotel Showcases 17 Local Black Artists, 29 Pieces

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Virtual Entertainment #130 (November 12)

In this issue: THEYFRIEND Is the World’s First Performance Festival Uplifting, Centering, and Celebrating Nonbinary Identity; Colonialism Is Terrible, but Pho Is Delicious; The Biography of Bling; Asian Composers Reflect on Careers in Western Classical Music; Palestine in 2048: Staring Into a Black Mirror; Sculptor Augusta Savage’s Towering Impact on the Harlem Renaissance; ‘The Joy Luck Club’ Is Getting a Sequel; The Secret Contested History of Buffalo Wings — And the Black Chef Who Got Left Out; Love In The Eye Of A Hurricane In 'Last Train To Key West'; Note Davis Helps His Friends Work on Toxic Masculinity

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Virtual Entertainment #129 (November 5)

In this issue: Dots All, Folks—At the Hirshhorn, Artist Yayoi Kusama Immerses Viewers in Infinity; One of the First Black Master Sommeliers Is on a Mission; Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi Review – A Life Far From Home; WATCH: Emancipation Monument Unveiled in Richmond, Virginia; The Portable Universe / El Universo En Tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia; Filarts Releases 6th Art Book Featuring Asian Artists; The Bel-Canto Brilliance of Lawrence Brownlee; La Mezcla: The Choreography of Collaboration; Mellon Foundation to Fund Diversity Programs at Library of Congress; Groundbreaking: A Community-Curated Exhibition of Pueblo Pottery Debuts in Santa Fe

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Virtual Entertainment #128 (October 29)

In this issue: The Museum of the Future Opens in Dubai; I Am Choosing To (Literally) Wear My Chinese American Pride. Here’s Why.; Supreme Court Justices Take Much More Than 15 Minutes To Consider Andy Warhol’s Silkscreens of Prince; The New Photography Book Celebrating the Art and Community of Cosplay; A Look Inside Nation’s 1st Mexican Wine Bar in San Francisco; A Short Film Introduction to Harvard’s Entanglements With Slavery; Ornate Wooden Sculpture Unearthed at Chan Chan in Peru; For More Inclusive Writing, Look to How Writing Is Taught; Sacheen Littlefeather Was a Native American Icon. Her Sisters Say She Was an Ethnic Fraud; ‘Hadestown’ & Jujamcyn Theaters Apologize and Reaffirm “Commitment to Accessibility” After Actor Calls Out Audience Member With Hearing Loss Using Captioning Device

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Virtual Entertainment #127 (October 22)

In this issue: Marilyn Nance Shares Archive of Pan-African Artist Gathering "FESTAC '77”; IKEA Clears Its Bookcases for an Indigenous Art Installation; The Mixed Metaphor: Why Does the Half-Asian, Half-White Protagonist Make Us So Anxious?; Omnium Circus Presents 'I'm Possible'; The Science of Latino Music in Motion; Jamie Okuma's Collection of One of a Kind Pieces; Black Stars Reimagine Iconic Hollywood Movie Moments in New Photo Book; What a Hip-Hop Star on Death Row Has To Do With Dictators Everywhere; Whatever Happened to the African-Born Pizza Chef Who Won Over Biased Italians?; Young Adult Latino Literature Faces Conservative Backlash

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Virtual Entertainment #126 (October 15)

In this issue: Brooklyn Museum Completes Ten-Year Renovation of Asian and Islamic Art Galleries; Why We Need More Indigenous Literary Editors; America's Best Restaurants 2022 - New York Times; Deana Lawson's Showcase of African American Stories at MoMA; Royal Gift or ‘Stolen’ Gem? Calls for UK To Return 500 Carat Great Star of Africa Diamond; The Cherokee Nation Reckons With Its History of Slavery in a New Exhibit; Joanna Ampil Will Be the Engineer in Sheffield Theatres' Miss Saigon; The Double Futures of Athelone: An Exploration of Apartheid and Cinema; Jazz Icon Dianne Reeves ‘Lost Her Breath’ As Sheryl Lee Ralph Sang Her Song at Emmys; Bard College Receives $50 Million For Indigenous Studies

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Virtual Entertainment #125 (October 8)

In this issue: Senga Nengudi, Known for Evocative Found-Object Art, Wins Nasher Prize; How Owamni Became the Best New Restaurant in the United States; Angelica Ross Makes Broadway History As First Trans Roxie Hart; Book Banning in the US: These Are the Authors of Color Who Censors Are Trying To Silence; How Diego Luna Brought His Star Wars Character Back to Life in ‘Andor’; Indo Warehouse Is Bringing Its South Asian Roots to the World; Artist Accused of Faking Indigenous Identity Quits University Post; Sale of Long-Lost ‘Wizard of Oz’ Dress Put on Hold by Judge; Ethiopian-Style Fried Chicken Restaurant Doro Soul Food Is Coming to Howard University; Latino Hollywood Legends, From the Silent Film Era to Today

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Virtual Entertainment #124 (October 1)

In this issue: Dua Saleh Talks Transmuting Dysphoria Into Spellbinding Music; Beguiling Beni: Safflower Red in Japanese Fashion; Lucía Challenges Cultural Traditions in 'El Corazón de Mezquite'; The 400 Years Project Celebrates Indigenous Photographers; How a Black-Owned Circus Opened During the Pandemic; Designer Naushad Ali on Representing India and Why Circular Fashion Should Be a Priority; Imagery of the Egyptian Peasant; ‘Fire Island’ Puts an Asian-Led LGBTQ Spin on ‘Pride and Prejudice’; Dr. Carla D. Hayden, First Woman and First African American Person To Serve As Librarian of Congress; ‘The Cheech,’ a Game Changer for Chicano Art, Opens in Riverside

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Virtual Entertainment #123 (September 25)

In this issue: Wang Keping at Work Close to Nature; Helal's 'Ante Body’ Asks Us To Be More Open to the World; Pauli Murray’s Proud Shoes: A Classic in African American Genealogy; Native Artist Oscar Howe Didn’t Conform to ‘Indian Art’; ‘Coo-Coo 043′, ’Marry My Dead Body’ to Bookend Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival; Jibek Jolu's Dishes Inspired by Middle East, Europe and Asia; Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective at Riverside Art Museum; Benjida's Powerful Portrait of Motherhood and Exotic Dancing; Washington National Cathedral Depicts Resilience, Faith and Endurance of African Americans in 'New Light in the Darkness' Project; Fans Told Lizzo a Word in Her Song Was Offensive. She Changed the Lyrics.

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Virtual Entertainment #122 (September 17)

In this issue: Star of Reimagined Non-Binary Joan of Arc Play Says Globe Show Is ‘Full of Joy, Love and Hope’; ‘Greenland’: Dazzling, Debut Novel-Within-a-Novel About the Secret Love Affair Between E.M. Forster and Mohammed El Adl; Kuthiraivaal Is an Unusual, Important Arrival in Mainstream Tamil Cinema; Japanese and Colombian Tales Full of Fiber and Glitter; Latinx Files: DC Comics’ Hispandering Attempt; Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Mesmerises Audience at London's O2 Arena; Chicago’s Yin He Dance Company Celebrates Chinese Art, Culture Through Classical, Modern Movement; Mashama Bailey, Chef at the Grey in Savannah, is 2022’s James Beard Award Winner for Outstanding Chef; Chamarro Blacksmith Tells Stories of His Craft in 'Kantan Herereu'; Uganda-Based Architect Doreen Adengo Dies at 45

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Virtual Entertainment #121 (September 10)

In this issue: Life Through the Lens of a Blind Photographer; A Historic Black Theater Steps into the Future; Oscars 2023: ‘Decision To Leave’ Revealed as South Korea’s Oscar Submission; 25 Years On, Lilith Fair Is a Reminder of How One Woman’s Radical Idea Changed Music; Jim Chuchu on Why Are Stolen African Artifacts Still in Western Museums; For More Inclusive Writing, Look to How Writing Is Taught; Laverne Cox Is Finally Getting Her Own Barbie Doll As the Trailblazing Icon Makes History; Santa Fe-Based Chef Fernando Olea Wins James Beard Award; Theatre Director Atul Kumar’s New Production Focuses on the Most Important Book in India – The Constitution; FAMU 's Marching Band Appears at Louis Vuitton's Men's Spring 2023 Show + French Historical Appreciation of Black American Culture

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Virtual Entertainment #120 (September 3)

In this issue: Burnt Sugar Will Bring the Noise; Dehnenkamp Tells Story of a Yezidi Girl’s Trauma in Short Film “Seahorse”; 6 Books Beyond ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ That Explore the Loss of Reproductive Rights; Shakespearean Tragedy, Kathakali Style: Classic Indian Dance Finds Synergy With King Lear; Terry Castro, a Proud Outsider in the Jewelry World, Dies at 50; Concise and Compelling Film ‘Carajita’ Wins a Special Mention at San Sebastian New Directors; A Violinist on How to Empower Asian Musicians; 15 Loved New York Bodegas; Frida Kahlo’s Family Urges Puma To Stop Selling a Collection Inspired by the Artist; How an Author, a NASCAR Star and a Young Boy Flipped ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ on Its Head

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Virtual Entertainment #119 (August 27)

In this issue: 12 Black Queer Icons That Inspired Beyoncé on ‘Renaissance’; Issey Miyake, Known for Bold Sculpted Designs, Dies at 84; John Leguizamo and Other Latino Actors Call Out James Franco’s Casting As Fidel Castro; How to Bring Together a Small Town Divided by Murder: Put on a Show; Capitol Unveils Mary McLeod Bethune Statue, a Historic Milestone Years in the Making; A Lowrider Bike Club in Napa Is Spreading Mexican-American Pride and Combating Cultural Stereotypes; A London Museum Will Return Its Stolen Benin Bronzes to Nigeria; Founder of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey Celebrates the Legacy of Nearest Green, the Formerly Enslaved Black Man Who Taught Jack Daniel Everything He Knew About Whiskey; James Monroe Iglehart, Phillipa Soo, Steven Pasquale & Jessie Mueller Will Lead GUYS AND DOLLS at the Kennedy Center

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Virtual Entertainment #118 (August 20)

In this issue: Lessons in Style With Dione Davis; Visit Philadelphia Launches Latino Art and Galleries Guide; Remembering Corky Lee, the NYC Photographer Who Made Sure Asian Americans Were Never Forgotten; ‘Oakland Coffee Lover’ on Instagram Is an Anti-Influencer in the Making; desert X AlUla 2022 Explores Ideas of Mirage and Oasis; Walk on Frederick Douglass’s Journey; Representation Without Transformation: Can Hollywood Stop Changing Cartoon Characters of Color?; Who Gets to Define Native American Art?; Explore Korean Art at Peabody Essex Museum; Pablo Neruda’s Question Poems, Now Translated and Illustrated for Children

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Virtual Entertainment #117 (August 13)

In this issue: Pink Donut Boxes Are Canvas for Artist Portraying Kids of Cambodian-American Refugees; Until the Funk Speaks: Bootsy Collins in Conversation; Mexico in San Francisco – Works on Paper From Diego Rivera to Alejandro Santiago; This Is How Les Ballets Trockadero Stay En Pointe Year After Year; Bolu Babalola Brings New Life to Ancient Folklore in “Love in Color”; Hit the Road Treads Softly Between Trespass and Transformation; Chef Freddie Bitsoie Tells ‘Edible Stories’ in New Native Kitchen; Meet the Moroccan-Ghanaian Artist Exploring Black Identity Through Surrealism; ‘The Good Asian’ Comic Book Series Aims for ‘Truth Where Facts Don’t Exist’; Two Families Are Brought Together by a Busing Initiative

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Virtual Entertainment #116 (August 6)

In this issue: How Filipino American Artist Carlos Villa Poignantly Visualised Asian American Invisibility; Now Hear This “Florence Price and the American Migration”; A Poem by Porsha Olayiwola; A San Francisco Muralist Painting “Latino Culture in All Its Beauty”; In Hollywood, Asian American Stories Are Rare, but Asian American LGBTQ Stories Are Even Rarer; Sanctuary: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection at the California African American Museum; Target Dropped *Two* New Fashion Collabs With Queer-Owned Brands; ‘This Is What We Should Have Had All Along’; The Syrian Cassette Archives Explore a Pivotal Era of Middle Eastern Music; Gone but Never Forgotten in a Quilt

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Virtual Entertainment #115 (July 30)

In this issue: Silas Farley To Lead Dance Academy in Los Angeles; Key Buildings for Chicanx Artists Added to La Historic-Cultural Monument List; Memento: Jayashree Chakravarty and Lam Tung Pang; N. Scott Momaday on Landscape, Emily Dickinson, and the Fellowship That Changed His Life; Connecticut Bartender Chris Rue Pours Perfection Into New, Delicious Trade; Proliferating Immense Life – A Whole Year per Year; Museum of the Bible Returns Artifacts to Egypt; This Is a Film About What It’s Like Living While Black, in Japan; A Personal Account of Gentrification in Kuala Lumpur; Lorena Gauthereau Preserving U.S. Latino Literature

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Virtual Entertainment #114 (July 23)

In this issue: Thai Rapper’s Mango Sticky Rice Stunt at Coachella Boosts Sales of Beloved Thai Dessert; Meet Bora, a Multidisciplinary Artist With a Structure Maintenance Concept; Julia Alvarez Discusses Her Radically Different Novel, ‘Afterlife’ (and Defends ‘American Dirt’); 20-Year-Old Filmmaker Wins Award for Powerful 1-Minute Film About Marriage; Kyle Abraham’s Second Act at City Ballet: Spare, Wintry, Abstract; Model Quannah Chasinghorse: ‘If You Want To Work With Me, You Have To Work With All of Me’; Black Bodies, White Cubes: The Problem With Contemporary Art’s Appropriation of Race; Singapore’s Iconic, but Endangered, Street Food Now Has UNESCO Status; SF Symphony’s Streaming Service With Multicultural Concerts, Videos

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Virtual Entertainment #113 (July 16)

In this issue: Colombian Band Bomba Estéreo Denounces Violence Against Mother Earth in Powerful New Video; How the Words of Ivorian Poet Tanella Boni Resonate With Artist Aboudia’s Impassioned Works; Lee Cataluna: Hawaii Actor Fought for Better Roles for Asian Americans; A Saga About Three Generations of Kuwaiti Women Across the Middle East and America; Artist Hugh Hayden Confronts the Black American Dream; Speaking Selena – Christian Serratos on Celebrating Her and Selena Quintanilla’s Mexican-American Identities in a New Netflix Drama; Grammy Award Winner Gregory Porter: “A Place of Wisdom”; CNN Host Fareed Zakaria on Life After the Pandemic; American Masters “How It Feels To Be Free”; ENDEMISMO | The Mexican Museum

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Virtual Entertainment #112 (July 9)

In this issue: Google Doodle Celebrates Naziha Salim, One of Iraq’s Most Influential Painters; Black Art and Artists Matter: Collection Assessment and Expansion in Watson Library; ‘My Year Abroad’ Is a Fun Excursion — Just a Little Light on Substance; In ‘Homeroom,’ an Unprecedented School Year Caught On Film; Justsmile Is the New Magazine With Inclusivity As Its Starting Point; Visit AFTER LIFE (we survive) Exhibition; Two Celebrated Comedians John Leguizamo and Al Madrigal on Their Fight for Latino Superheroes: ‘Give Us Our Twenty Percent’; Voice of Disney’s First Princess of Southeast Asian Descent Kelly Marie Tran: ‘I’m Not Afraid Anymore’; Explore Native American Art at Peabody Essex Museum; Asalh and PBS Books Present a Special Conversation Between Author Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Nubia Kai & Sundiata Cha-Jua

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Virtual Entertainment #111 (July 2)

In this issue: Downtown 81 Will Help You Understand Your ’80s NYC Nostalgia; Producer Gloria Calderón Kellett on Making and Sustaining Latinx TV; In Pictures: Young Idlib Artist Painting for Peace; ‘I’m Going To Create My Own Doors’: In Chicago, Asian Women Arts Heads Lead by Example; Owner of Miss Ollie’s in Oakland Will Open a New To-Go Only Location and Separate New Coffee Shop; Medicine Man Gallery Has Been Serving Collectors of Antique and Contemporary Native American Art Since 1993; Staatsballett Berlin and Dancer Reach Settlement Over Bias Allegations; Activision Blizzard Heavily Edits King’s Diversity Generator Blog, Removes All ‘Ranking’ Images; Exploring the Frontier of Sound Art With Japanese Artist Yuri Suzuki; Lifelike Painted Statues Reanimate Museum Many Left for Dead

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Virtual Entertainment #110 (June 25)

In this issue: The Artist Reimagining What Home Looks Like for Black Families; Taken Down But Not Out: A Queer Black Writer Lends His Unique Small-Town Story; The Sports Bra Might Be the Only Women’s Sports Bar in the World; Brazil Pavilion Translates Idioms Referring to the Human Body Into Playful Installation in Venice; Iraq’s Mosul Revives Shattered Cultural Scene With Traditional Music Festival; Mount Vernon, New York: Can Public Art Help To Heal Old Divisions?; Stories of Ages: Five Native American Ballerinas; Black Artists Pioneered Electronic Music. This Festival Celebrates Them.; How ‘1917’ Highlights Erased Contributions of Indian Soldiers During WWI; With His New Show, Jorge Gutierrez Wants Latino Kids To Know: ‘You Come From Heroes’

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Virtual Entertainment #109 (June 18)

In this issue: New Mexico’s First Risograph Studio Is All About Community; A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera; Meet the Woman Fusing the Traditional Japanese Obi With the Palestinian Tatreez; A Quiet Gentleman: Paul Revere Williams and His Los Angeles Dream; Grammy Award Winner Lila Downs’ New Song Is About Indigenous Workers’ Invisible Labor; Meet the Southern Chef Spreading the Word of Gullah Geechee Cuisine; A Bay Area Production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Is Coming Under Fire for Its Casting Choices; Five Latino Films To Enjoy From Sundance 2021; A Conversation With Rose Issa, Champion of Artists From the Middle East; Explore Art From India in the Peabody Essex Museum Online Collection

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Virtual Entertainment #108 (June 11)

In this issue: The Gospel According to Damien Sneed; ‘Marvel’s Voices’: Terry Blas Is Ready To Create a New Era of Latinx Representation With Reptil; The Mystery of the Puffer Fish Helmets of Kiribati; This Startup Is Using NFTs To Give Black Dance Artists Credit for Their Creations; At a Latin American Photo Festival, Poetic and Political Imagery; 4 Qatari Artists Featured in ‘Process, Part 3’ Exhibition; Read Local! A Brief Guide to Reading More Philippine Literature; For One Black Whiskey Maker, Accolades and Now a Lawsuit; From Artistry to Activism: Amplifying Black and Asian Voices of Resistance; Museum of Fine Arts Returns Two Looted Terracotta Objects to Mali

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Virtual Entertainment #107 (June 4)

In this issue: Painter Hana Yilma Godine Uses Ethiopian Textiles To Construct Fantastical Compositions of Women in Repose; Illicit Concert Series Goes Legit, but Secret Maps and Moonlit Merriment are Here to Stay; Explore the Middle East Galleries Series at the Penn Museum; Keeping Love Close – What Does Love Look Like in a Time of Hate? Asian and Asian-American Photographers Respond.; Obsidian House – Black Artists + Designers Guild; Diego Rivera Mural at San Francisco Art Institute to be Saved, Not Sold; Lil Buck on Filling His Soul and Finding Hope for Life in Times When He Questioned Whether Life Was Worth Living; Arts Beat: New Mural Highlights Oceano Culture, Community; A Guide to Filipino Cinema; How Do Maya Parents Handle Temper Tantrums?

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Virtual Entertainment #106 (May 28)

In this issue: A Conversation With Visual Artist Gordon Sasaki; A Choreographer and Her Girls Retell a Tragedy Through Dance; Brazilian Queer Artist Bia Leite Boards Joao Paulo Miranda Maria’s ‘Goddess of the Water’; How Entrepreneurs Are Designing a Trans-Inclusive Future Through Clothing; The 19th-Century Church One Artist Calls Home; Explore the African Art Collection at the Peabody Essex Museum; As an Earlier Generation of Asian Restaurateurs in Atlanta Retires, Their Children Are Stepping Into the Kitchen—And Remaking the Menu; Shonda Rhimes Explains How a Disneyland Pass Caused Her To Leave ABC for Netflix; Origin Myths -- The Middle Eastern Heritage of Opera; Native Photographers in the Field: “The Genízaro Pueblo of Abiquiú”

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Virtual Entertainment #105 (May 21)

In this issue: Watch Una Escuela Llamada América (2021) in Honor of the World Day for Cultural Diversity; teamLab Pushes On With Plans for Major New Digital Art Museum in Saudi Arabia; If You Take All the World’s Emotions and Put Them Into One Sound, It’s Sérgio Mendes; Meet the Toronto Sex Educator Behind Cara Delevingne’s ‘Peg the Patriarchy’ 2021 Met Gala Look; Vice Chairman of Playwrights Horizons Larissa FastHorse Shares Indigenous Plays To Read; Out of Black Liberation, Asian American Jazz; Close Quarters and Distant Love in ‘The Last Five Years’; Explore Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum; Kaduna, the Gripping Film Exploring Mutuality Through the Emotional Power of Dance; ‘Minari’ Is About Immigrants Who Speak Korean. That Doesn’t Make It ‘Foreign.’; New Bilingual Book a Colorful Look at Kids in Mixed-Status Families

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Virtual Entertainment #104 (May 14)

In this issue: All-Asian Cast to Raise Awareness of the Violence Against All Women and Girls and the Hate That Asian Women Face; Looking for a Queer POC Tattoo Artist?; Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home; Work, Play, and a Puppet: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Celebrates Films by Latinx and Hispanic Filmmakers; With a Leap Across Gender Norms, a Rising Ballet Star Looks To Rewrite Rules of Dance; Amir ElSaffar's Rivers of Sound Orchestra; What Goes Into the Healing Power of an ‘Encanto’ Arepa? A Colombian Chef Reveals Its Magic; Indigenous Symbols Rise As Colonial Monuments Fall in New Mexico; Broadway Knows Ariana DeBose Is a Star. Now the World Will Too; An Initiation Into South Asian Classical Music

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Virtual Entertainment #103 (May 7)

In this issue: Founder and CEO of Rise Amanda Nguyen Curates a Playlist Highlights Amazing AAPI Artists; An Exhibition Considers What’s Changed Since the Black Power Movement – And What Hasn’t; Who Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writes His Best-Sellers For; The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots; Fighting Colonialism With Crushing Riffs: A Profile of Worldwide Indigenous Metal; 17 Books by Palestinian Writers That Are Worth Reading; Five Time Grammy Award Winner Esperanza Spalding’s Quest to Find Healing in Music; Princeton University Art Museum Asian Art Collection; André Leon Talley, Editor and Fashion Industry Force, Dies at 73; The Interesting Case of Bad Bunny’s Progressivism

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Virtual Entertainment #102 (April 30)

In this issue: Black Artists Highlight How the Trauma of Empire Still Echoes in Britain; What Is Asian American Music, Really?; Latino Actor Eugenio Derbez Breaks Stereotypes With the New Film ‘CODA’; After Reflected Fame, the Artist Karon Davis Steps Into Her Own Light; What Will It Take To Eliminate Racism in the Publishing World?; How This Minneapolis Chef Is Reintroducing Native American Cuisine to the World; Bringing Arab Opera to a Western Stage; Through ‘Howards End,’ Matthew López Found a Portal Into His Epic Drama About Gay Men; New Ralph Lauren Collection Explores Collegiate Style on Historically Black Campuses; Māoriland To Present Film and Matariki Festivals Together This Winter

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Virtual Entertainment #101 (April 23)

In this issue: A South Korean Artist in Qatar: Kim Sinae on Changing Perceptions of the Middle East; Traveling Exhibit Seeking Stories, Art Celebrating Heritage of Covington’s Hispanic Community; Lizzo’s 'Watch Out for the Big Grrrls' Contestants Say Dance Competition Series Embraces Empowerment; Photographer’s 3,200 Undeveloped Film Rolls Hold History of Rock ’n’ Roll; A Shape-Shifting Woman Plays All the Parts; The Periodic Table Composed of 119 Science Haikus, One for Each Element; A New Indigenous Merch Collab Honors the Beauty of Elders; 9 Julio To Open in Oakland With Fresh-Baked Empanadas and a Sweet Outdoor Space; ‘Box’ or Gem? A Scramble To Save Asia’s Modernist Buildings; L.A Rebellion

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Virtual Entertainment #100 (April 18)

In this issue: Lena Waithe, Yvonne Orji, Danielle Brooks & More on Opportunity in Hollywood; Wildly Anticipated Cafe Ohlone Opens for One-Time Tasting Event; Leyna Bloom, First Transgender Woman of Color Appeared in Vogue India, Makes History in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue; Plains Art Museum’s La Línea Connects Latino Culture in Minnesota; 10 Black Women Changing the Architecture and Design Space; UAE Label Lili Blanc Unveils Latest Collection ‘Dream in a City’; Gwendolyn Brooks Championed Black Authors and Presses; Rejecting Assimilation in ‘You Sound Like a White Girl’; Grammy Awards Winner Jon Batiste on the Healing Power of Music and Love; Spectacular Ice Age Rock Paintings Found in Colombian Rainforest

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Virtual Entertainment #99 (April 9)

In this issue: E1 - The Museum JEDI Show "The Inclusive Museum Leader"; Acclaimed Native American Artists To Be Featured in Exclusive Collections Gallery Show in Solana Beach; Her Experience at Yale Unsettled Her. So She Wrote a Horror Film About Being Black in Academe.; El Paso Museum of Art Hosts ‘Images of Mexico’ Exhibit; ‘If Yan Can Cook, so Can You!’: TV Chef Icon Martin Yan Awarded James Beard Lifetime Achievement Honor; How the University of Houston Is Working To Recover, Preserve, and Archive U.S. Latinx Literature; In Iraq’s Mosul, Art Springs Up From Ruins Almost 5 Years After the Ouster of ISIS; Five-Time Grammy Award-Winner Terence Blanchard’s ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’, a Complex, Emotionally Charged Life’s Journey; The Asian Pop Stars Taking Center Stage; ‘Pencils Are My Weapons’: Lava Thomas Tackles Lack of Art by Black Women in BAMPFA Collection

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Virtual Entertainment #98 (April 2)

In this issue: 11 Grassroots Groups That Celebrate and Support Transgender People; Reinventing Classical Music for the Digital Age; James Beard Awards Name Finalists for 2022, Single Out Oakland’s Understory for Honor; Self-Portraits Inspired by 19th-Century Iranian Beauty Ideals; Indigenous Fashion Designers Showcase Their Work and the Meaning That Goes Into It; Mexican Architect Frida Escobedo Will Design the Met’s New $500 Million Modern and Contemporary Art Wing; 11 Black Creatives on What Home Means to Them; Complete Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum Tour in 360; Chautauqua Institution Presents Bird Runningwater: Indigenous Perspectives on Cinema; Todzungaira | Hope Masike | Playing For Change | Live Outside

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Virtual Entertainment #97 (March 26)

In this issue: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Come Back, Kick Back: A Grad x Alumni Mixer; Trans Day of Visibility Storytelling Workshop; Hong Kong Painter Wesley Tongson and the Lineage of Chinese Landscape Art; At the Rothko Chapel, Tyshawn Sorey Explores Sound — And Silence; ‘West Side Story’s’ Ariana DeBose Makes the Case Against ‘Ethnically Ambiguous’; The Art World’s Tainted Love for “Discovering” Artists: The Case of Etel Adnan; Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah Is the Most Iconic Nigerian Novel of All Time; 'The Fever' Diagnoses a Sickness in Bolsonaro’s Brazil; What Is a Feminist Picture?; Panel Mania: The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill; At the Gardner, South African Artist Zanele Muholi Contains and Represents Multitudes; ‘Turning Red’ Cast Speaks Out After Controversial Review Drew Outrage, Was Pulled by Outlet

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Virtual Entertainment #96 (March 19)

In this issue: Accessible+ Amplifies the Intersectionality of BIPOC People With Disabilities at Coachella; Reading Poetry, Engaging America: Joy Harjo, United States Poet Laureate, and Elizabeth Alexander in Conversation; Diébédo Francis Kéré: The First African to Win Architecture’s Top Award; San Diego Latino Film Festival Expands Cultural Offerings Through Artists and Artisans; Stephen Wong: The Painter Who Builds Up Landscapes ‘Like Lego’; Native Designer Rebekah Jarvey of Rocky Boy To Be Featured in Indigenous Fashion Show; Looking Inward: Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran by Sote; The Singaporean Baker Inventing a Pie for Every American State; The Thousand-Year-Old Hair Ritual That’s Alive and Well in Chad; Cuban Artists Test the Frontiers of Political Dissent; ‘Born on the Water’ Gives Black Children in America Their Origin Story

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Virtual Entertainment #95 (March 12)

In this issue: Meet the Security Guards Moonlighting as Curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Middle Eastern Galleries You Can View Online; A Native American Food Truck Is Keeping Tribal Cultures Alive; Art + Science = Real-Life Stories of ‘Young Nerds of Color’; Musical Adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s ‘Broken Wings’ Brings ‘Real’ Middle East to London; The Novelist Yoko Tawada Conjures a World Between Languages; POC-Led Arts Orgs in NYC Call for $100M To Address “Cultural Inequity”; Sebastião Salgado Documents the Lives of Traditional Amazonian Communities and the Biome They Inhabit; An Interview With Once on This Island Director Pascale Florestal; In Animated Film ‘Vivo,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Draws on Cuban Music’s Inspiration

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Virtual Entertainment #94 (March 5)

In this issue: Prison Choirs Sing in a Reboot of Beethoven’s Opera About Unjust Incarceration; Connection, Contemplation, and Contested Histories in Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Art; Books by Latino Authors You’ll Want To Read; Photographer Tells Story of Struggle for Equality in South Carolina; Shukri Lawrence, Founder of tRASHY CLOTHING, Is Influencing the World With Middle Eastern Pop Culture and Politics; Nominees Announced for the Native American Music Awards; Ammodo Tiger Short Award Winner Korakrit Arunanondchai: On Loss, Shamanism—And Denim; Superman Has Metropolis, Batman Has Gotham City, and Now Cyborg Has Detroit; In Brazil, a Museum Within a Museum Restores a Legacy; A Guide to Jazz Pianist Vijay Iyer

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Virtual Entertainment #93 (February 26)

In this issue: 2022 Armory Show Will Focus on Latinx and Latin American Art; Ph.D. Graduate on Keeping Jazz Alive, the Renaissance of Black Protest Music; The Revolutionary Girl: A Conversation With Author Samira Ahmed on ‘Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit’; ‘Radio Ambulante’ Host Daniel Alarcón on the Immigrant Experience; ‘We Changed People’s Mentality’: What It Was Like on the Ground in Egypt as Officials Unveiled the Pyramids’ First-Ever Contemporary Art Show; Danai Gurira Will Star as Richard III at Shakespeare in the Park; Danai Gurira Will Star as Richard III at Shakespeare in the Park; 10 Great Reads in Honor of Indigenous Peoples Day; Artworks Born of Creative Collaboration Foster Community, Empathy, and Understanding; Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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Virtual Entertainment #92 (February 19)

In this issue: Meet the Park City Artist Who Brings Black Heroes to the Mountain; ‘The Family Chao’ Is a Riveting Story of Identity and Belonging; Vogue France Says ‘Yes to the Headscarf.’ Some Muslim Women Are Not Happy; Peabody Essex Museum Breaks Down Silos Between Native American and American Art in New Galleries; ‘Our Kentucky Home’ Exhibition Shines the Spotlight on the State’s Hispanic and Latino Artists; Laid Off From School Cafeteria, Berkeley Baker Concocted Nostalgic Cake Business; New York’s Hispanic Society Gears Up for Its Second Act; “We’re Not Just Relics of the Past”: How #NativeTikTok Is Preserving Indigenous Cultures and Inspiring a Younger Generation; Key Figure in Iraq’s Modern Art Movement Shakir Hassan Al Said; Celebrating Black Puppeteers of NYC With Nehprii Amenii

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Virtual Entertainment #91 (February 12)

In this issue: Political Art Roils George Washington Campus; The 5th Element of Hip Hop: Using Artifacts To Teach Black History; The Poetry of Joy Harjo Teaches Grief, Justice and Happiness; Data Leak Reveals Resilience, Inequity of Broadway’s Reopening; Netflix Film Perfect Strangers Challenges Middle East Taboos; The Bluest Eye: A Virtual Public Reading; Latinx LGBTQ Artists Portray Their Struggles in a Holocaust Museum Houston Exhibition; Nashville Ballet Transitions All Dancers to Flesh-Tone Tights; This Author Traveled Across the Country To Ask: What Does It Mean To Be Latino?; Disney, Questlove Launch Short-Form Animated Series ‘Rise Up, Sing Out’

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Virtual Entertainment #90 (February 5)

In this issue: Annual LGS 2022 Calendar Giveaway; Lunar New Year Recipes: 5 Asian Cooks Share Dishes From Their Celebrations; The Work of Chicana Muralist Judy Baca Has Finally Been Recognized; Smithsonian Names Cynthia Chavez Lamar As New Leader of National Museum of the American Indian; Encanto Song ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ Passes ‘Let It Go’ as Highest-Charting Disney Animated Hit in 26 Years; Beyond the Page: Reading Selections From Author Zakiya Dalila Harris; 1,200 Miles From Kabul, a Celebrated Music School Reunites; Innovative Soul Food Restaurant Brown Sugar Kitchen Closes After Nearly 15 Years; Looking to the Future of Art Restitution; Watch Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis Sing 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now' From Porgy & Bess; The Metaphysical World of Thai Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Movies

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Virtual Entertainment #89 (January 29)

In this issue: Annual LGS 2022 Calendar Giveaway; A Winning Strategy: Fashion That’s Better the Second Time Around; Alvin Ailey Like Never Before in Jamila Wignot’s ‘American Masters’ Documentary; Kiowa Murals Embody Kiowa Language, Culture, and Community; $750,000 Grant Awarded To Develop Bracero Museum in Socorro; Chikara Ono’s East Bay Restaurants Are Coming Back to Life; Maria Ewing, American Opera Star, Takes Her Final Bow; ‘We Are Lady Parts’: A Fierce and Funny Series About an All-Girl, Muslim Punk Band; Declaration by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States; Remembering Louis Maqhubela, Pioneering and Enigmatic South African Painter; Kids Need To See Themselves Reflected in Media

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Virtual Entertainment #88 (January 22)

In this issue: West Side Story Wasn’t Made for Puerto Ricans Like Me; Step Inside Misty Copeland’s Glamorous New York Apartment; National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jason Reynolds Says Normalizing Anxiety Is A Way To Beat It; Barbados To Build New Slavery Museum After Severing Ties With Britain; ‘Selling Kabul’ Holds Up a New Mirror After the Taliban Takeover; San Jose Is the Bay Area’s Great Immigrant Food City; “Peace Train” Featuring Yusuf / Cat Stevens | Playing for Change | Song Around the World; Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright Lynn Nottage Celebrates Having 3 Shows Running in NYC at the Same Time; Closed Since Early 2020, Puerto Rico’s Museo De Arte De Ponce Faces Long Road to Reopening; Mom’s 2-Year-Old Son Thought Encanto Character Was Him

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Virtual Entertainment #87 (January 15)

In this issue: Southeast Asian Contemporary Art Q&A With The Columns Gallery Director, Dong Jo Chang; Edmonia Lewis, Prominent Black and Ojibwe Sculptor, Gets Her Own USPS Stamp; From Squid Game to Supernova: Inside the Whirlwind with Hoyeon Jung; 12 Delicious Latin Dishes To Enjoy at Your Next Family Gathering; Māori News Anchor Makes History As First Primetime Journalist With Moko Kauae Face Tattoo; Nigerian Medical Student, Self-Taught Artist, Goes Viral After Posting Illustration of Black Baby in the Womb; African-American Art Collection at Yonkers Museum Tops List of Must-See Exhibitions in US; Go Inside a STRANGE LOOP at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Why Zaha Hadid Architects Switched to Employee Ownership; New Orleans Musician Performs Incredible Jazz Clarinet Solo To ‘House of the Rising Sun’

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Virtual Entertainment #86 (December 18)

In this issue: Bringing Diversity to ‘A Christmas Carol’ Is Just the Beginning; ‘Social Detonator’: In Artist’s Work, and Life, Different Classes Collide; Tashi and the Monk: A Social Experiment in the Foothills of the Himalayas; Rest in Power, bell hooks—Iconoclastic Writer and Activist Who Reminded Us “Feminism Is for Everybody”; Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight; Vicente Fernández, Mexican Singer and ‘King of Rancheras,’ Dead At 81; How Rabia Kamara Is Changing the Dessert World With An Ice-Cream Sundae Infused With Black History; Seattle Fashion Designer Luly Yang Is Releasing Her First ‘Ready To Wear’ Collection; ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera; French Academy Breaks Rules and Stirs Debate With Choice of Peruvian Novelist Vargas Llosa

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Virtual Entertainment #85 (December 11)

In this issue: Caught in the Embrace of Shizu Saldamando’s Portraits; Exploring Poetry through Performance Workshop with George Abraham and Fargo Tbakhi; The New Belle in Town Is Shattering All Kinds of Princess Beauty Standards; New York Billionaire Michael Steinhardt Surrenders $70 Million of Stolen Ancient Art; Authors of Color Speak Out Against Efforts To Ban Books on Race; S.F. Opera Celebrates Reborn Gala With a Major Gift To Promote Diversity; An ‘Eye’ for Trash? Cuban American Artist Is a Hit During Art Basel; Two Sushi Chefs Discuss the Preparation of Omakase; A Coalition of Artists Promote Indigenous and Environmental Struggles Through Open Access Art; This 24-Year-Old Artist Has Made Over $300,000 in 10 Months Selling NFTs: ‘I Hope To Inspire More Creatives Who Look Like Me’

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Virtual Entertainment #84 (December 4)

In this issue: Meet Saudi Egyptian Collage Artist Shahad Nazer; Whitney White Propels Lady Macbeth Into the 21st Century at the A.R.T.; ‘Indigenizing Colonized Spaces,’ One Photograph at a Time; The Black People Who Lived in Walden Woods Long Before Henry David Thoreau; ‘Just Me and the Fabric’: Vietnamese Artist Finds Success With Cloth Work; Latin Grammys Cap a Blockbuster Year for Latin Music; Egypt’s Ancient Road of 1,000 Sphinxes, Buried Under Sand for Centuries, Unveiled in Spectacular Ceremony; New Book ‘Black Food’ Explores a ‘Beautiful, Complicated and Amazing History’; Winner of Annual Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Artists Announced; How Does the Personal Become Political in South Asian Literature?

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Virtual Entertainment #83 (November 27)

In this issue: The History of National Native American Heritage Month – November 2021; The Smithsonian’s Latest African American Exhibits Available in Newly Launched "Searchable Museum"; University of Buffalo Libraries's Reading List For Native American/American Indian Heritage Month; At Queens’s Noguchi Museum, Banners by Asian Artists Address Racism; The Flea Theater Announces Focus on Experimental Work by Black, Brown, and Queer Folks; Extreme Metal Meets Traditional Javanese Instrumentation and Mantras; 'Fighting for Change': Life as a Black Artist; Mariana Velasquez on the Generosity of Colombian Cuisine; In Humanities Day Keynote, Wu Hung Explores the Rehabilitation of Damaged Art; 3 Brazilian Authors Explain Why Afrofuturism Matters

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Virtual Entertainment #82 (November 20)

In this issue: Queer Black Lives on Screen: A Brief History of the Good, the Bad and What Needs To Come Next; Inside the Thai Temple Where Tattoos Come to Life; I Am a Black Feminist Playwright. White Theater Owners Need To Stop Shutting Us Out; Seven Caldos From Latin America That Are Perfect for Soupy Season; Meet Nine Fashion Designers Making Real Change Around the World; Meet the Nigerian Visual Artist Turning Coffee Into Fine Art; Neglected South Asian Tongues Take Heart in Massive Reach of Sinhala Popular Song; 'Fighting for Change': Life as a Black Artist; 'Fighting for Change': Life as a Black Artist; Fumi Nagasaka’s New Series is a Love Letter to New York’s Asian Community

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Virtual Entertainment #81 (November 13)

In this issue: Two Portraits of Young Men Face Off — And Show a Story About Race in the History of Art; How Vietnamese Americans Made San Jose America’s Tofu Capital; Buffalo Undergraduate’s Musical Journeys Redefine ‘Student’ Boundaries; LEGO and Artist Yinka Ilori Partner up on a Vibrant New Installation; Latino Theater Company Reinvents Premeditation for Your Earbuds; Film-Maker Phillip Pike’s Queer Choice Results in ‘Our Dance of Revolution’; Two Artists Explore Abstraction To Evolve Bali’s 3D Contemporary Art; How Literature by Black Authors Shaped One Scholar’s Life; Japanese Cellist Michiaki Ueno Wins Geneva Music Competition; Nigerian Ballpoint Pen Artist Leaves Her Mark on the Global Art Scene

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Virtual Entertainment #80 (November 6)

In this issue: Inside The National Indigenous Fashion Awards; An Exploration of the Scores of Florence Price on November 14; Wu Tsang and Adam Pendleton Reimagine Queer Presence in Grand Museum Rooms; 14 Works of Mexican Literature Available in English Translation; All-Refugee Cooking Company Shares Culture and Home Through Love of Food; Nunavut Filmmaker’s Animated Short Wins imagineNATIVE Award; Cl Says She Grew Up Thinking Asian Representation in Music Was “Impossible”; Britain’s Rich History of Black Literature; ‘Labyrinth of Cinema’ Review: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Epic Statement About the Horror of War and the Magic of Movies; Afrobeats: A Global Sound

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Virtual Entertainment #79 (October 30)

In this issue: Chicano Artists Resist Commercialization of Día de los Muertos; "We Shall Be Free, We Shall Find Peace”: An Exhibit of Art by Incarcerated Persons by SFOpera; Transcending Borders and Genres, Syrian Rapper Assasi Brings Arabic Music to Maine; "A Feminist Reading of Debt" Reviewed By Gabriela Neves de Lima; "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" Opens the Met Opera's 2021-2022 Season; A New Cookbook by Indigenous People, for Indigenous People; Egyptian Artist Nora Zeid in First Solo Exhibition: How Do We Value Our Heritage?; Gentle Bones on His International Collabs: ‘Southeast Asian Music Is Still Defining Itself’; ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man,’ From University to Broadway; Mexican Fashion Design Brand Partners With American Repertory Ballet In “Mexican Music” This Weekend

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Virtual Entertainment #78 (October 23)

In this issue: Aria Comes to Attica Prison; A Star of ‘Reservation Dogs’ Breaks Barriers; Jay Caspian Kang's "The Loneliest Americans" Searches for Coherence in Asian America; Haitian Chef Brings a Little Bit of the Islands to Everything He Does; Hrishikesh Hirway Keeps Connected to the Mom He Lost In "Between There and Here"; Paz Errázuriz’s Intimate Photos Document the Lives of Trans Sex Workers in Chile; 'She Went Out Strong': Dorothy Steel, Who Made Her Feature Film Debut in Black Panther, Dies at 95; The MIT Future Heritage Lab Goes Inside a Syrian Refugee Camp To Uncover the Creative Lives of Its Inhabitants; Poetry Is Experiencing a New Golden Age, With Young Writers of Color Taking the Lead; Eugenio Dittborn Is Interested in the Anti-Portrait

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Virtual Entertainment #77 (October 16)

In this issue: Artist Spotlight: Logan Sylve; Curiosity Is the Secret Ingredient in This Japanese Winemaker’s Sought After Bottles; Hispanic Heritage Month Music Recs For Rock Y Hip-Hop En Español; The Folger’s Karen Ann Daniels On Making the Shakespeare We Want; Iranian Singer Googoosh Raises Her Voice To Keep Her Nation's Culture Alive; 10 Great Reads in Honor of Indigenous Peoples Day; Unthread: Patterns from Interwoven Philippine Communities; Beauford Delaney: Portraits Glowing With Inner Light; Cine+Más SF Announces the 13th San Francisco Latino Film Festival; Parsing the Asian American Immigrant Experience Through Family History

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Virtual Entertainment #76 (October 9)

In this issue: 12 Rad Indigenous Illustrators You Should Know; The Art of Black Folk: Talks with Richard J. Powell; The Quietly Rebellious Art of Iranian Women and What We Can Learn From Them; Shuffling Through Taiwan’s Pop History: The Taipei Music Center’s First Permanent Exhibition; With 4 Color Books, Bryant Terry Looks to Color Outside the Lines; How Cary Fukunaga Took on James Bond — and Won; Renowned Berkeley Saxophonist Joshua Redman Is an ‘Introvert at Heart’; WAM Theatre’s ‘Kamloopa’ a Fresh Take on Indigenous Issues, Running Oct. 7–24; For Multimedia Artist Nicole L'Huillier, Sound Is A Portal For Change; The Illustrated Upheavals in the Life of a Young Indian Woman in the Pandemic

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Virtual Entertainment #75 (October 2)

In this issue: A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera; What Is Indian American Literature?; The Infiniteness of Alma Thomas; The Writing on the Wall: Exploring the Cultural Value of Graffiti and Street Art; 9 Indigenous Musicians Reflect on What Truth and Reconciliation Means to Them; Live Opera Continues October 14–30 With Matthew Ozawa’s Interpretation of Beethoven’s Fidelio; Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez Reads 10 Haikus for Max Roach; Karen Olivo Wants Something Better Than Broadway; Kakiniit: The Art of Inuit Tattooing; The Birth and Life of Nepal’s Most Iconic Revolutionary Song

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Virtual Entertainment #74 (September 24)

In this issue: How the Words of Ivorian Poet Tanella Boni Resonate with Artist Aboudia’s Impassioned Works; Helga: The Armory Conversations; A Postcolonial Take on Literature in English and English Studies in Bangladesh; The Deeper Meaning Behind Jeremy Pope's Met Gala 'Fit; Emerging Latin Music Styles: Six Genres You Should Know; Asian-American History Comes Alive on No-No Boy’s ‘1975’; Philippine-UK Comic Anthology Looks To Incite Action on Climate Change; Bethany Hines Photography; Dapper Dan Becomes First Black Designer to Receive Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award; A Cave With Ancient Drawings Has Been Sold, But Not To The Tribe That Hoped To Buy It

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Virtual Entertainment #73 (September 18)

In this issue: From New York Streets to Museum Walls: Works by the City’s Public Artists in Residence Acquired by Major Institutions; Josephine Baker Is The First Black Woman Who Will Be Buried At The Pantheon In Paris; The Moth StorySLAM Live - GATHERINGS on Sep. 19; Alaska Tlingit Artist’s ‘Raven Story’ Stamp Is Released by Postal Service; The Icelandic Saga That Keeps Rita Dove Coming Back for More; 8 Notable Queer Contemporary Fiction Books by Asian Writers; “499” Filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes on Spanish Colonialism; Live From Seattle: A Brand-New Indigenous Radio Station; Critique and Joy: African American Poetry, From Phillis Wheatley to Hip Hop; Reggaeton’s History Is Complex. A New Podcast Helps Us Listen That Way

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Virtual Entertainment #72 (September 11)

In this issue: Blurring the Borders of Southeast Asian Art in Bangkok; A Conversation with James Lloydovich Patterson About Grigori Aleksandrov’s “Circus”; Golden Thread’s Sahar Assaf: Theatre as a Fight Forward; U.S. Moves to Return Antiquity Said to Be Stolen From Cambodia; Exploring Identity With Filmmaker Mariales Diaz; How One Of Music's Biggest Stars Almost Disappeared, And How Her Legacy Was Saved; Lumbee Film Festival Challenges Stereotypes of Indigenous People; BBC Orders Raft Of Factual Programming Including ‘Frida & Diego’, ‘Black Art Matters’, ‘The Bolsonaros’ & ‘Union With David Olusoga’; The Meteoric Rise Of Latin Urban Explained; Margaret Rhee's "The Year Before I Left For Mars"

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Virtual Entertainment #71 (September 4)

In this issue: Young Afghan Artist Creates Haunting Image of Her Homeland’s Fall to the Taliban; The Deep Roots and Radical Joy of Antoinette Nwandu’s ‘Pass Over’; Inside the World of Brazilian Grime; Afrofuturist Exhibit Traverses Time & Space; How the Musical ‘Rent’ Brought a Group of Young Cubans Together — And Made History; Iraq Reclaims 17,000 Looted Artifacts, Its Biggest-Ever Repatriation; Publishing Agent Marie Dutton Brown Re-Wrote the Culture; Paiute Painter Melissa Melero-Moose on Creating Space for Indigenous Art; Shoe Obsession for the Ages: Prince’s Killer Collection of Custom Heels, Now on View; Spice Rack: South Asian Electronic Music’s Response to COVID-19

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Virtual Entertainment #70 (August 28)

In this issue: Michael Morgan, Conductor and Passionate Advocate for Classical Music, Dies at 63; Book Giveaway For "American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears"; David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History; Fighting Colonialism With Crushing Riffs: A Profile of Worldwide Indigenous Metal; These Restaurateurs Want Everyone in America Eating Indian Food; Cabaret Latino, Songs of the Americas Announced at IndyFringe Fest 2021; Despite Strides in Accessibility, I Often Feel Othered at Broadway Shows; The Asian Art Museum: Full of Art With a Past, Not of the Past; How the Art of Fatherhood Informs the Craft of Poetry for Prentice Powell; Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen?

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Virtual Entertainment #69 (August 21)

In this issue: U-Chicago Sophomore Miles Mikofsky: On Good Idea, O Typologies, and Other Poems; Asia Society Triennial “We Do Not Dream Alone” Unifies Artists Across Continents; A New Oakland Restaurant Will Celebrate Black Women and Heritage Cuisine; Fawzia Mirza Talks "Noor & Layla," a Film Celebrating Queer Muslim Love; Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testament of Being Black in America; A Latino Cartoonist Is Using His Art To Encourage Vaccinations; Initiative To Support Indigenous Artists Announces Inaugural Residencies and Grants; In Music and Film, a New Korean Wave Is Challenging Asian Stereotypes; Never Look Away — A Three-Story-Tall Mural Celebrating LGBTQ Icons; Book on Mughal Art and Culture Explores the Dynasty’s Rich Aesthetic Legacy;

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Virtual Entertainment #68 (August 14)

In this issue: How Basquiat and Street Artists Left Their Mark on Hip-Hop Culture; Wear Your Heritage: Asian Americans Are Claiming Their Power by Reclaiming Their Fashion; How 19th-Century Harlem Drag Balls Evolved into House Balls, Birthplace of Voguing; Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III on Presenting African American Life; The Immigration Tale ‘I Carry You With Me:’ A Story of Love, Loss and Cooking; The New Book Exploring the Vulnerability of Queer Black Relationships; Questlove Unearths The Long-Forgotten 'Summer Of Soul'; Captain America: Marvel Comics Introduces New Filipino Shield-Bearer; Alvin Ailey Extension: Bringing Dance Back to the People; What's In A Genre Name? The Trouble With 'Asian Fantasy';

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Virtual Entertainment #67 (August 7)

In this issue: WEBTOON Launches ‘Illuminated’ to Spotlight Asian Women in Entertainment; Every New Play on Broadway This Fall Is by a Black Playwright; Composer Derrick Senam Eugene Skye’s Personal Reflection on Juneteenth; ‘We Are Not the Footnote’: In Photos, Reynaldo Rivera Evokes L.A.’s Queer Latino Bohemia; An Intellectual Love Letter to Bhekizizwe Peterson, A South African Literary Giant; Indigenous Circle Dance Panel Explores How Learning History Can Help Combat Racism; OSF roars back to life with Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, starring E. Faye Butler; This Malaysian Horror Movie Is a Quiet Foray Into Southeast Asian Forest Folklore; Sonhando Outras Possibilidades: Three Artists Expanding Brazilian Art on a Global Stage; South Korean Dancer Park Sae-Eun Awarded Top Title in Paris Opera Ballet;

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Virtual Entertainment #66 (July 31)

In this issue: Gabriel Villa Explores His Mexican Roots in Contemporary American Art; Godfather’ of Tibetan Rap Spits Karmic Rhymes; A Brief History of Black Queer Representation in Cinema; Why We Need To Stop Labeling Asian-Latinx Food As “Fusion”; Puebla Artist Helps Aztec Dancers Preserve Ancient Traditions; Asian Belonging, Resilience, Displacement on Display in Ferocious Lotus Theatre’s Production ‘Rooted’; New Black Literature; Daniel Riley Announced As the First Indigenous Artistic Director To Lead Non-Indigenous Dance Company; The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance; Ray Yeung Has Been Telling Queer Asian Stories for Years and People Are Finally Taking Notice

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Virtual Entertainment #65 (July 24)

In this issue: an Exhibit of Colorfully Queer Vibes, African Treasures and Unapologetic Character and Creativity; A Graceful Place Where Bhangra and Bollywood Meet; Kearny Street Workshop's Multi-Genre Program for BIPOC Writers; Transformation in Song and Ink: How Tattooing Brought Tenors Amitai and Pene Pati Closer to Home; What Netflix’s New Occult Anime Reveals About the Philippines; Online Advice Columnist’s Amazing Journey As Gay and Latino in Rural Oklahoma; Black TikTok Creators Refuse To Be the Latest Black Artists Erased From Their Art; the Inventiveness of a New Generation of Asian American Chefs; New Gagosian Director Spotlights Black Artists Involved in Social Change; Native Writers, Louise Erdrich and Natalie Diaz, Win Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Poetry

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Virtual Entertainment #64 (July 17)

In this issue: Bisa Butler; After Kamloops Discovery, Indigenous Music Summit Refocuses; Adeju Thompson Is Bringing Genderless Nigerian Fashion to the World; A Queer Latino Creates a Delicious Fusion Space with ‘Chicano Eats’; Artistic Collaboration with the Ohlone Community; Carlos Vives with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic; The Inspiring LGBTQ Legacy of Pose; Juneteenth Recipes Curated by Nicole Taylor; Ethan Young's 'The Dragon Path'; Cosmic Nature

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Virtual Entertainment #63 (June 6)

In this issue: Anthony Ramos’ Long Journey to ‘In the Heights’; Mustafa, a Folk Hero for a Weary Generation; India’s Vibrant and Idiosyncratic Truck Art; Jamal Jordan with Blair Imani; Meet the Business Reclaiming the Narrative around Native Art; Stolen Religious Artifacts Discovered At Asian Art Museum Returned To Thai Government; ‘High on the Hog’; David Diop's Frightening Tale of Senegalese Soldier Wins International Booker Prize; The Austin Asian American Film Festival; DJs from the Global South are Fighting Oppression with Music

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Virtual Entertainment #62 (May 29)

In this issue: Andrew Kung's 'Perpetual Foreigner'; Honoring Prima Ballerina NaTalia Johnson; Art Installation Calls Attention to Stolen Indigenous Land; Music in Simple Language with Mohammad Khodadadi; Arthur Jafa; Stolen Religious Artifacts Discovered At Asian Art Museum Returned To Thai Government; ‘The Other Black Girl’; Expansive Thinking Sustains Hong Kong’s Independent Galleries; Smithsonian Folkways x TIDAL Presents Curated Playlists for Asian Pacific Heritage Month; 'The Great Indian Kitchen'; ‘Stop Stealing from Black Creatives’

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Virtual Entertainment #61 (May 22)

In this issue: Voices on Violence Against Women' Speaks Out Against the Discrimination of Women in South Asia; How Plywood From Last Year’s Protests Became Art; 'Welcome to Indian Country' Celebrates Native Life through Seven Songs and Stories; Vera Wang on Starting her Company at 40; Chicano Authors Illuminate Mexican American Perseverance in Award-Winning Books; Phylicia Rashad Announced as Dean of Howard University's College of Fine Arts; Bill T Jones's 'Afterwardsness;’ Disabled People Fear Being Left Behind as U.K. Culture Venues Reopen; Zeshawn Ali's 'Two Gods;’ Seven Ways to Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Kids; Chai, a Band With an Ethos, an Aesthetic and a Sound All Its Own

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Virtual Entertainment #60 (May 16)

In this issue: A Philly Museum Apologizes for Keeping the Bones of a Black Child Killed in a Police Bombing; Whitney Museum of American Art Presents the Works of Dawoud Bey; Handel's Acis & Galatea Presented by Tricities Opera; Travel through Kolkata and Hong Kong; Inside One Iranian Artist’s Fight for Creative Freedom; The Fine Art of Political Protest; Yang Huang's 'My Good Son;’ Dante Basco Stands Up Against Filipino American Hate in Hollywood; How Black Artists are Reinventing Comics; Hear Our Voices Storytelling Event with Gayle Ross; Meet the Indian Artists Offering Art in Exchange for Aid to COVID Charities

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Virtual Entertainment #59 (May 8)

In this issue: ‘The Disciple;’ Chakaia Booker; Portraits Showcase The Asian American Community in the Mississippi Delta; Germany Will Repatriate Benin Bronzes, Plundered from Africa In The 19th Century; Persian Singing Workshops with Mahsa Vahdat; Chicano Artists Challenging History and Reclaiming Cultural Memory; 'Things We Lost To The Water;’ 'The Waves in Quarantine;’ How 'Cyclopedia Exotica' Looks at Anti-Asian Hate; Native American 'Birthing Rock' Petroglyphs Vandalized by Racists in Utah; Founded & Led by Immigrant Women, White Snakes Project Integrates Social Activism with Original Opera

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Virtual Entertainment #58 (May 1)

In this issue: Chella Man Celebrates 'The Beauty of Being Deaf'; Meet Toshiko Horiuchi, the Artist Behind Hand Knitted Playgrounds; Pulitzer Prize Winner August Wilson Talks About Finding His Unique Voice; Photographer Laura Aguilar Frankly and Poetically Portrayed Latino and Lesbian Subjects; How the Inuit Tattoo is Making a Revival; SAG-AFTRA Panelists Share Struggles Of Acting While Middle Eastern & North African; Wilma Theater's 'Fat Ham' is a Witty Take on Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'; How Do You Illustrate Resilience? These Graphic Novels Show the Way; Inji Efflatoun, Egyptian Artist of the People; Indian Kolam Art at US Capitol Celebrates Power of Healing; Billie Holiday and the Cult of Jazz Machismo

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Virtual Entertainment #57 (April 24)

In this issue: Ottawa's Virtual Art Gallery Features Sikh Art; “Miscast” Entertains While Recognizing that Casting is Political; Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun; Hundreds of Theater Workers Demand Change in Times Square; Celebrate Día Del Niño; How Beyoncé's 'LEMONADE' Defines & Transcends the Rock Tradition; Sydney Opera House Sails Features 'Water Light' Art Created by Female Indigenous Artists; ‘Crying in H Mart;’ How ‘Rocks’ Made Stars of Its Schoolgirl Cast; Amir Darabi; Ken Matt-Martin is Taking Over Victory Gardens to Make a ‘Theater for All'; On 'Vulture Prince,' Arooj Aftab Finds New Meaning In Familiar Words

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Virtual Entertainment #56 (April 17)

In this issue: Building a Black Public Art Space at Berkeley; High School's Student-Run Musical Synergy Bridges Culture Through Music; Oakland-Based Calming Ritual Run is Looking for Queer Filmmakers of Color; Where Is Makeup Artist Ophelia Liu From Glow Up Now?; US Returns Over 500 Smuggled Pre-Hispanic-Era Artifacts to Mexican Officials; Shina Novalinga is Reviving Inuit Throat Singing; Thirty-Eight Arts Executives Work to Build an Anti-Racist Arts and Cultural Sector; Richard Wright Has a New Book Out Decades After His Death; Ten Must-See Virtual Shows from Middle Eastern Galleries; Superstar Conductor Gustavo Dudamel Will Lead Paris Opera; 28 Asian and Asian-American Photographers Focus on Love; Daniel Kaluuya;

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Virtual Entertainment #55 (April 10)

In this issue: Winnipeg's New Showcase and Meeting Place for Inuit Art and Artists; Augusta Savage; ‘Concrete Cowboy;’ Delhi Art Week; Vanguard Theater Company Presents Community Discussion #StopAsianHate; An Oral History of Philadelphia International Records; From Tehran To Tbilisi, An Iranian Free Spirit Seeks A Different Life; 'Lotus & Feather' Read By Michelle Yeoh; ‘The Island We Made;’ Johnnetta Cole Talks The Academic Museum and the Journey Toward Equity; The Quarter-Century Reign of Mariachi Reyna; Young Couple Mistakenly Vandalizes $440,000 painting in South Korea

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Virtual Entertainment #54 (April 5)

In this issue: Asian Artists Hone Weapons in Fight Against COVID-19; 'Crazy Rich Asians' Director Jon Chu Speaks Candidly About Racism & Asian American Identity; ‘Gold Diggers'; Celebrating Asian Artists; Queens Museum Exhibit Sheds Light on Injustices Against Asian Americans; Los Angeles Theater Companies Leave L.A. Stage Alliance After Asian Actress Misidentified At Ovation Awards; Milwaukie Symphony Leader Ken-David Masur Speaks Out Against Asian American Discrimination; A Celebration of Asian/Pacific American Poetry; Classical Opera Has a Racism Problem; A Web Series Engaging Asian American Heritage; CAATA and AAPI Theatre Leaders’ Statement Denouncing AAPI Hate; ‘Eyes That Kiss in the Corners'

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Virtual Entertainment #53 (March 29)

In this issue: David Henry Hwang; Amanda Nguyen; ‘Asian Americans;’ Philip Lim; The Long History and Present Surge of Anti-Asian Violence; Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Announces Initiatives to Combat Anti-Asian Hate and Violence; Twenty-Five Pieces of Wall Art From Asian and Asian American Artists; A Reading Guide on the Asian American Experience; We Need to Address Anti-Asian Racism In the Music Industry; ‘When I Realized My Friend Was White;’ ‘Man of God;’ DisOrient Asian American Film Festival

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Virtual Entertainment #52 (March 20)

In this issue: ‘L.A. Rebellion;’ Live Cooking Demonstrations Hosted by Native Women; 'Box’ or Gem? A Scramble to Save Asia’s Modernist Buildings; Riz Ahmed; Fared Shafinury; Gone but Never Forgotten in a Quilt; Julius Hemphill; Coronavirus Patachitra Scrolls in West Bengal, India; Amanda Gorman; ‘Goddess of the Water;’ “My Year Abroad;” Diego Rivera's Mural Could Save the San Francisco Art Institute

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Virtual Entertainment #51 (March 13)

In this issue: S H Raza's Dance of the Elements; A Roundtable Discussion on Racial Justice in the Music Industry; Raven Halfmoon’s Monumental Ceramics; Herman Cornejo is Dancing for Many Cameras; The Many Lives of Steven Yeun; Four Indigenous Composers and a Piano from Colonial Times Make Passionate, Layered, Honest Music Together; ASL Performer Steals the Show During Super Bowl National Anthem; Director Lee Daniels on 'The United States Vs. Billie Holiday'; Montreal Restaurateur's Self-Lacerating Style has Drawn Worldwide Attention; Jason Mantzoukas Has Had Time to Really Geek Out on Music

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Virtual Entertainment #50 (March 6)

In this issue: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye; Stacey Mei Yan Fong is Inventing a Pie for Every American State; Google Doodle Honors Zitkála-Šá; Michelle Burford Has Carved Out a Niche as a 'Story Architect' for Famous Black Women; Venezuela's First Eco-Mural Is Made of 200K Recycled Bottle Caps; Hear Adrienne Shamszad Perform Revolutionary Anthems; Black Sculptor Creates Dark Skin Prosthetics to Boost Patients’ Confidence; A Personal Account of Gentrification in Kuala Lumpur; The Asian Art Museum Presents Chanel Miller's I was, I am, I will be; Tiffany Rae Explores the Birmingham Church Bombing of 1963

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Virtual Entertainment #49 (February 27)

In this issue: Conversations with Preeminent Indian Art Historian B.N. Goswamy; Lido Pimienta’s ‘Miss Colombia’; Indigenous Symbols Rise as Colonial Monuments Fall in New Mexico; American Masters “How It Feels to Be Free”; Christine Sun Kim Performed at the Super Bowl - You Might Have Missed Her; Discover Mexico’s Impact On American, Latinx, Black, And Queer South Asian Art At The Whitney; Lavita McMath Turner Appointed Met Museum Chief Diversity Officer; Five First Nations Artists Win Grants to Make Recordings; Justsmile Is the New Magazine With Inclusivity as Its Starting Point; Craft in the Real World; People Across U.S. Made Over 2,000 Pieces of Kolam Art to Welcome Harris

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Virtual Entertainment #48 (February 20)

In this issue: 'From Artistry to Activism'; 'Dark Eyes' by Lila Downs; Read Local! A Brief Guide to Reading More Philippine Literature; Magazine Founded by Klancy Miller Celebrates Black Women & Femmes in Food and Wine; A Trip Into the Otherworldly With Playwright Adrienne Kennedy as Guide; Artist Julie Mehretu 's 'about the space of half an hour'; SF Symphony’s Streaming Service Debuts with Multicultural Concerts; The Hispanic League Presents Online Cooking Demos with Local Chefs; Four Qatari Artists Featured in ‘Process, Part 3’ Exhibition; Marginalized Composers Take Center Stage at the Schomburg Center; Walk through Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum's Tour in 360

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Virtual Entertainment #47 (February 13)

In this issue: Vocalist Hani Naroo; ‘Minari’ is about Immigrants Who Speak Korean, That Doesn’t Make it ‘Foreign.’; Gregory Porter Thinks Out Loud about a Few of His Favorite Songsmiths; New Music Honors Bond Between Filipino and Hawaiian Cultures; Black Bodies, White Cubes - The Problem With Contemporary Art’s Appropriation of Race; Under the Mask, the Next Batman Will Be Black; Larissa FastHorse Shares Indigenous Plays to Read; Spectacular Ice Age Rock Paintings Found in Colombian Rainforest; 'Bridgerton' Doesn't Ask You to Reimagine Race in the Regency Era; Flamenco Inclusivo's Performance at Festival de Juarez; The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots; Australia Tweaks Anthem to Recognize Indigenous History

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Virtual Entertainment #46 (February 8)

In this issue: Malik Starx’s ‘Dancing for Freedom’; Tsagaan Sar; ‘Crowndation’; Smithsonian American Art Museum & the Chinese Embassy's Lunar New Year Family Zone; The Gagosian's Director & Curator Antwaun Sargent Examines 'Notions of Black Space'; Send Artwork from the National Museum of Asian Art this Lunar New Year; Stream These Eight Great Performances by Cicely Tyson; Tet Is Full of Traditions, but You Can Have It Your Way; The Ailey Company Meets the Challenge of This Lost Season; For These Classical Musicians, It’s Always Been About Racial Equity; K-Cinema Special Screening for Seollal, Le Grand Chef 2

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Virtual Entertainment #45 (January 30)

In this issue: Partial Victory for ISSI!

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Virtual Entertainment #44 (January 23)

In this issue: Partial Victory for ISSI!

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Virtual Entertainment #43 (January 17)

In this issue: Partial Victory for ISSI!

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Virtual Entertainment #42 (January 9)

In this issue: Vigil for ISSI; Vigil for Social Justice Futures at Cal

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Virtual Entertainment #41 (January 2)

In this issue: The Rural Artists of Solentiname, Nicaragua; Rashaad Newsome's Times Square Exhibition 'Black Magic'; Seven Movies by Indigenous Filmmakers; Virtual Art Exhibit Aims at Strengthening Ties Between India and the Philippines; Robert Battle, Alvin Ailey Artistic Director, Discusses The Future Of Dance in the Virtual World; 'Americans' Exhibit; Somi Kakoma's 'in the absence of things'; Rasha Nahas Discusses Her Long-Delayed Debut Album; Leilah Babirye's Exhibit 'Kuchu Clans of Buganda'; Carnival of the Animals Featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason; A Snapshot of Afro-Peruvian History and Culture; Fourteen Malaysian Music Queens You Should Hear

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Virtual Entertainment #40 (December 26)

In this issue: New Year's Eve with Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony; The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020; The Met Opera's New Year's Eve Gala; Eleven Traditional Lunar New Year Foods to Eat in 2021; Kwanzaa Kuumba Makers Festival; Steve Aoki to Headline Los Angeles’ Virtual New Year’s Eve Celebration; Korean Cultural Center Hosts Holiday Musical Gala; Fifteenth Annual San Francisco Kwanzaa Celebration; Gloria Gaynor to Perform on New Year’s Eve; In New Puerto Rican Christmas Book, ‘Jibarito’ Passes on Values, Traditions of Three King’s Day

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Virtual Entertainment #39 (December 19)

In this issue: ‘Tlingit Christmas Carol’; José Feliciano's Iconic 'Feliz Navidad' Turns Fifty; Tyrus Wong’s Christmas Cards; For Many Caribbean Immigrants, It Wouldn't Be Christmas Without Black Cake; Netflix's 'Operation Christmas Drop' is a Haunting Reminder of Indigenous Reality; Black Nativity 2020; Eun Sun Kim Presents Three Concerts at La Scala; Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” Gets an Animated Video to Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary; Celebrate an Evening with Audra McDonald this Holiday Season; A Mexican Christmas - Songs & Stories with Verónica Robles

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Virtual Entertainment #38 (December 12)

In this issue: Bay Area Readers Share Poems on Racial and Civil Strife, the Pandemic, and Gratitude for Hanukkah; Daveed Diggs Has Released a Hanukkah Song; A Hanukkah at the Crossroads of Ethiopian and Jewish Identity; "8 Days of Hanukkah"; Seven Diverse Jewish Children's & YA Books; The Jewish Latin Music Connection; Jewish Museum Staff Ask for Greater Diversity and Transparency; 'Zemer Ha'am'; The Ethiopian Israeli Experience Comes to MFA Community Hanukkah Celebration; ‘Yaribon’; Operation: Immigration; Mission Chinese Founders Share Their Kung Pao Pastrami Latkes

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Virtual Entertainment #37 (December 5)

In this issue: Alice Sheppard is Moving The Conversation Beyond Loss and Adversity; ‘A Promised Land’; Eun Sun Kim is Making History as San Francisco Opera's New Conductor; San Francisco’s Only Chamorro Restaurant Persists Amid Pandemic; Heartbeat Opera Presents 'Breathing Free'; Yo-Yo Ma; 'Resist' Expansion; Living Worlds'; Artists Share their Perspective on Indigenous Existence; Radical Joy Bakery; Deaf Broadway Makes Strides for Diverse Audiences & Cast; Honor Victims of Violence in Cambodia and Explore the Healing, Hope, and Resilience of Survivors; Saudi Photographer Mohammed Jubran’s Remarkable Journey of Self-Discovery; A Balancing Act of Care and Resentment, Closeness and Vast Separation, as Two Actors Cook a Cherished Family Recipe

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Virtual Entertainment #36 (November 28)

In this issue: Happy Native American Heritage Day; Native American Heritage Day Falling On Black Friday Is 'Poor Taste'; Native Cinema Showcase: Native Photographers in the Field; Larry Yazzie Celebrates with Dance & Flute; Eight Places to Honor Native American Heritage in the U.S.; Native American Chefs Share Thanksgiving Recipes; Sky Hopinka; Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's 'Living Nations, Living Worlds'; Artists Share their Perspective on Indigenous Existence; Ernie LaPointe + Cedric Good House Discuss Reimagining Sitting Bull, Tatanka Iyotake; Explore the Alcatraz Log Book from the Indigenous Takeover Fifty-One Years Ago

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Virtual Entertainment #35 (November 21)

In this issue: TOURAN KHANOM; ‘Interior Chinatown’; Virtual Dance Party Featuring Novena Carmel and Rashida; ‘African American Poetry: The Shadow King’; Fraudulent Indigenous Art is Flooding Museums; A Conversation with George Benson; ‘Funny Boy’; Nine Latina Photographers & the Women Who Inspire Them; ‘The Sitdown with LB; Eight Emerging BIPOC Artists You Should Know; Log Cabin Excavation Unearths Evidence of Forgotten Black Community

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Virtual Entertainment #34 (November 14)

In this issue: Why Am I Here? A Questionable Talk by Lego Grad Student; ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics; Ja' Malik Describes His Experience within a Whitewashed Ballet Industry; Asia Society's Vice President of Global Artistic Programs Michelle Yun Discusses The Current State of Asian Art and Identity; ‘African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song’; La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino; Arab Fashion Week; San Francisco Reinstates Maya Angelou Monument; The Mandelorian Reinforces the “Cowboys and Indians” Dichotomy; Wana Udobang Discusses the Two Times Her Body Went Viral; the Art of Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom

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Virtual Entertainment #33 (November 7)

In this issue: KQED Celebrates Native American Heritage Month with Special TV Programming; “I Still Believe in Our City” Public Art Campaign; Cambodian Lullaby & UnMuted Tears; An Enduring Tribute to Native Veterans; Jacob Lawrence's Painting Is Found Accidentally by Met Visitor; Pianist Lara Downes Talks With Musical Omnivore Rhiannon Giddens; Chicago Latino Theater Alliance Drive-In Event; Publishers Step Up Diversity Efforts; Alexandra Harris Discusses Identity & the Warrior Stereotype of Native People Serving in the Military; NK Jemisin Wins a MacArthur Genius Grant; Sun Ra’s Arkestra; Gal Gadot's Casting as Cleopatra

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Virtual Entertainment #32 (October 31)

In this issue: Five Artists Take On Voting Rights; Diana Schwam & Chuanyuan Loi Headline ‘neither here nor there’; Chadwick Boseman’s Producing Partner Logan Coles; Felix d'Eon; Día de los Muertos with a Special Video Created by Artist MasPaz; Ntozake Shange’s ‘Dance We Do’; Cultural Competency in Theatre Training; A First-Time Survey of Asian Art Gets a Second Chance to Dazzle; Toyin Ojih Odutola's 'Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True'; Sixteen Famous Native American Actors, Politicians, and Artists Today; New Label Wants to Give Latino Artists a Louder Voice

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Virtual Entertainment #31 (October 24)

In this issue: Sci-Fi BIPOC Voting Plays; Kevin Young Selected to Lead African American Museum; Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s ‘I Came From Nothing’; 'Why I Vote' Photo Series; The National Portrait Gallery Presents A Century of Women Writers; Queen Victoria's Goddaughter; Mestre Xuxo Accompanied by Walter Molina; Larissa FastHorse Wins McArthur Genius Grant; Shahzia Sikander’s Miniature Paintings; Fred Moten Describes the Impact of Black Art & Music

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Virtual Entertainment #30 (October 17)

In this issue: Concert Black; Lumbee Native American Community Reclaims History; Radha Bank’s '“The Forty-Year-Old Version”; Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music; Southeast Asian Artists Explore Identity in Reflection; Eight Latinas You May Not Know; Fall for Dance Festival; Linda Ronstadt Honors her Mexican Roots; Breaking up the Wine World’s ‘Stuffy, White Boys’ Club’; Young, Black & Lit Provides Free Books that Feature Black Main Characters to Children

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Virtual Entertainment #29 (October 10)

In this issue: Afro-Latino Festival of New York; Arts Across America Celebrates Indigenous Heritage; Leslie Odom Jr.; CAAMFest FORWARD Opening Film; Sarah Palafox; Choreographer Fana Tshbalala's American-Focused Adaptation of "INDUMBA"; Cedia Paredas; Peyman Selimi; Poet Laureate Joy Harjo; A.D. Carson’s Peer-Reviewed Hip-Hop Album; Kenzo Takada's

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Virtual Entertainment #28 (October 3)

In this issue: Folk-Singer Michael Kiwanuka; Essential Films on The American Latino Experience; Saioa Hernández, Angel Blue & Angela Gheorghiu Lead Semperoper Opera; Vincent Namatjira Wins Archibald Prize for Portraiture; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman; Marvel Celebrates Indigenous History; Vogue China Editor Angelica Cheung; Elijah Pierce’s Woodwork; Theater Folks to Have on Your Radar; Persian Lullabies; 'Over the Moon' Producer on Asian Representation

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Virtual Entertainment #27 (September 26)

In this issue: National Queer Indigenous Performing Arts Festival; Photo Exhibition Celebrates the Career of Cải Lương; Whitney Mongé; Contra-Tiempo Dance; Myth of a Colorblind France; Chris Wu Discusses the Evolution of Chinese Typography; André Leon Talley; How Poetry Helped These Hurricane Survivors Weather the Aftermath; Natalie Johnson; Modern Art + Culture Interviews Gabriella Wyke; Yara Shahidi to Star as Tinkerbell

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Virtual Entertainment #26 (September 19)

In this issue: John Leguizamo; Cellist Tomeika Reid; Qiu Zhije 'Organizes Chaos' with Maps; Malala Yousafzai’s Book Club; ‘Cuties’ Calls Out Hypersexualization; Enter the Pipa; Upcoming 1776 Revival; Audre Lorde and Political Warfare; The Smithsonian's Latino Art & Artists; Expand the Canon List Drop & Online Reading Series; Naomi André on Writing ‘Black Opera’

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Virtual Entertainment #25 (September 12)

In this issue: Afro Roots Virtual Fest; Yesika Salgado; Dance Africa 2011’s Expressions & Encounters; World of Wonders; Oscars Announce New Inclusion Requirements; Azu Tiwaline’s Rippling Electronic Compositions; #WeSeeYou; Maren Hassinger; Filmmaker Rosine Mbakam; 100 Most Stylish DapperQ's 2020; Met Hires Patricia Marroquin Norby

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Virtual Entertainment #24 (September 5)

In this issue: Jessye Norman; ‘Cemetery Boys’; Sonia Gomes; The Star of the 'Marvel's Avengers' Game is a Muslim Pakistani Teenager; Sonny Rollins; Chiura Obata’s Papers; Naima Green; Charles Gilpin; Jon Yao & Mei Lin Redefine Fine Dining; ‘Vanguard’; Contemporary Native American Art

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Virtual Entertainment #23 (August 29)

In this issue: First Major Publisher to Focus on a Sikh Character; Bon Apétit’s Editor in Chief; Santa Fe Indian Market; ‘Bookmarks’; Understanding Bird; Justina; Traditional Japanese Weaving Technique; Maria Tallchief; Bakery Puts Ube in the Spotlight; Actors with Disabilities; Homeland Elegies; Black DIY Influencers Shine a Light on Prejudice in the Crafting Industry

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Virtual Entertainment #22 (August 22)

In this issue: Much Ado About Nothing; Decameron Row; San José Poetry Festival; Classic Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts; El Museo Del Barrio’s Painters; Sons of Kemet; MGM Remakes Orion Pictures; Native American Variants for Marvel Heroes; Bob Marley’s ‘War’; Martha Graham Dance Company; Most Realistic Oil Paintings in the World; Alvin Ailey’s Shelter; Chanel Miller

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Virtual Entertainment #21 (August 15)

In this issue: HAM4CHANGE; 100 Years 100 Women Virtual Screening; Justin Favela’s Piñatas; Indigenous Writers are Changing Sci-Fi; BLATANT - A Forum on Art, Joy and Rage; Celebrating Asian Opera Singers; Whose Music Theory? Allegations of Anti-Black Bias and Anti-Semitism Fly; Berkeley Arts Are Not Kaput; Redbone’s Single Gets a New Video; 11 Year-Old Nigerian Dancer Receives Scholarship From NYC Ballet Company; Theater of War; Nahid Siddiqui; Meshell Ndegeocello on the Gospel of James Baldwin  

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Virtual Entertainment #20 (August 8)

In this issue: Berkeley Summer Arts Festival; DeFord Bailey; A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin; SolFest; Texas Isaiah; Janine Sherman Barrois & Elle Johnson; San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Unveils New Commissions; Sheku Kahna Mason; Akeem Smith; Sweet Bean Film; Marian Anderson; Katsushika Hokusai

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Virtual Entertainment #19 (August 1)

In this issue: Kerry James Marshall; Stockton on my Mind; Graduate Fashion Designer Accuses Balenciaga of Stealing Her Idea; House Votes to Create a National Museum of the American Latino; African Australian Artist Collective; Dancing for Merce Cunningham; Isabel Wilkerson; Shakuntala Devi; Audre Lorde

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Virtual Entertainment #18 (July 25)

In this issue: Tyler Mitchell; Local Youth Music Programs Keep Traditional Mexican Music Alive; Luis Barragán; S.A Cosby; Contemporary Muslim Fashions; Bisa Butler; Lenny Kravitz; Cherokee Women Aim for a Better Life in ‘Crooked Hallelujah’; Beatboxing Buddhist Monk; Kate Rushin; A Rush to Use Black Art Leaves the Artists Feeling Used

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Virtual Entertainment #17 (July 18)

In this issue: Jordan Casteel; Library of Congress’ Citizen DJ; In the Spirit Native Arts Exhibition; Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Disability Unite Festival; Kat Logan; National Trust Preserves African American History; Gina Prince-Bythewood; Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Kung Fu Nuns Of Kathmandu; Poetry Societies in Afghanistan; Deneen Reynolds-Knott; Issa Rae & Michaela Coel

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Virtual Entertainment #16 (July 11)

In this issue: Black Lives Matter Prayer Installation; Kwame Brathwaite; German Acuña; K-pop Fans Drown Out Opposition to Black Lives Matter; Modern Mothers and Daughters in Three Novels; Nigeria Academy Spreads Ballet Among Lagos Poor; Padma Lakshmi; Museums Still Failing with Artist Diversity; Poorna Jagannathan; Black Artists from Mississippi Design a New State Flag; Saheem Ali; Healing Around Race Workshop 

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Virtual Entertainment #15 (July 4)

In this issue: Frederick Douglass’ ‘Fourth of July’ Speech; Taking the Stage Exhibition; Ella Fitzgerald; Thao Nguyen; LGBTQ Authors; Dancing at Dusk; Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival; Malcolm Tariq; Stories of the Chicano Movement; Werner Herzog; Afropunk; Taiwanese LGBTQ Art; Keleketla! Studio Assemblage

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Virtual Entertainment #14 (June 27)

In this issue: Hamilton; ‘Blackbird’ sung in Mi’kmaq; South Korean Art; Dance brands introduce darker clothing shades; Tiananmen Massacre Graphic Novel; Jen Shyu; Staging Muslims; “Aranmula kannadi”; Angela Davis; Black Histories Literature; Latino Art; Bakers Against Racism; David Bowie calls out MTV for not playing Black artists

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Virtual Entertainment #13 (June 20)

In this issue: ‘Watchmen’; Black Lives Matter Murals; Alonzo King; Criminal Queerness Festival; Lena Richard; Oscars roll our film diversity rules; Kill Move Paradise Play; Camille Thurman & Darrell Green; Black Women and the Ballot; Wayne Shorter Quartet; #ShowUs Photography; Noname’s Book Club; Katherine Dunham

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Virtual Entertainment #12 (June 14)

In this issue: Invisible Portraits’ Documentary; Banksy; ‘Just Mercy’; Julius Eastman; Titus Kaphar; Jericho Brown; ‘Gone with the Wind’ removed; Judith Jamison; Criterion channel supports Black filmmakers; George Floyd protest dance

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Virtual Entertainment #11 (June 6)

In this issue: Harlem Dance Theater; Muslim American Fashion; Anna Deavere Smith; Hadestown Concert; Broadway stars call out racism; Photos of Africa’s oldest trees; Harriet Tubman; Cuisine; George Takei; Film Festival; Black joy is radical playlist

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Virtual Entertainment #10 (June 1)

In this issue: Community poem for Ahmaud Arbery; Protest Dance; Gwendolyn Brooks; Langston Hughes; Protest Anthems; Powerful art from #BlackLivesMatter movement; Audre Lorde; Classical musicians join online protest; Sounds of protest over George Floyd's

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Virtual Entertainment #9 (May 24)

In this issue: Wynton Marsalis; American Appetites; Sisters Matsumoto; Berkeley Symphony; Shigeru Ban;  Hung Liu; Alvin Ailey; Ain't Too Proud; Sustainable Architecture; Natalia Lafourcade

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Virtual Entertainment #7 (May 10)

In this issue: DearWorld.org; Nicole Fleetwood and Ruha Benjamin; Poetry Workshop; Ear Hustle podcast; Lin-Manuel Miranda; Street Sounds; Laura Harrier; Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum; Design; Naomi Campbell

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Virtual Entertainment #6 (May 2)

In this issue: Men Who Sing HIgh; Photographer Mous Lamrabat; Japanese Pop Music; Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration; An Evening with Common; Cirque Du Soleil; Ballet Hispánico; National Museum of Natural History; Yo-Yo Ma; Daughters of the Dust

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Virtual Entertainment #5 (April 26)

In this issue: Rosie Lee Tompkins; Travel; Lea Salonga; Opera; Grammy Prince Tribute; Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company; Actor Niles Fitch; Recording Academy Grammy Museum; Curator Filipa Ramos; The Artists

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Virtual Entertainment #4 (April 18)

In this issue: SF Gay Men's Chorus; Yayoi Kusama's Poetry; A Chorus Line Dance; National Portrait Gallery Collection; African Dance; Hamilton; Alvin Ailey; Lady Gaga; Marie’s Crisis Virtual Piano Bar; The Metropolitan Opera; Artist Deborah Roberts

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Virtual Entertainment #3 (April 11)

In this issue: Amplifier Art; Musical Theatre; Online Ballet Performances; Internet Archive; American Theatre; TheaterWorksUSA; Emergency Fund for the Arts; Ava DuVernay (Director, Filmmaker, and Producer); Kyle Weeks' Photography; Architect Mariam Kamara; Namsa Leuba's Photography; Japanese Fashion

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Virtual Entertainment #2 (April 5)

In this issue: National Gallery of Victoria in Australia; Author Jason Reynolds; Alvin Ailey Dance Company; Patrick Stewart Reads Shakespearean Sonnets; Artist Rigel Stuhmiller's Drawing Tutorials; Broadway Musicals; Live Talk about the Art and Technology; Photography and Videography Tutorials; Tamapla Institute

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Virtual Entertainment #1 (March 20)

In this issue: Met Opera; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Famous Museums; Broadway Plays and Musicals; The Philharmonie Berlin; The Social Distancing Festival; TED and TEDed; National Public Radio; The Philadelphia Orchestra; Live streamed private concerts

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