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The Alamo, Santa Anna and the Chewing Gum

By Nicola Moscelli

April 25, 2024

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne, American actor In 1836, the Alamo Mission in San Antonio (Texas) was the theater of a furious and tragic battle between Texan rebels and the Mexican regular army in the context of Texas’ secession from Mexico. That battle is remembered in US …...

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A Netherworld in Brownsville

By Nicola Moscelli

April 18, 2024

“I was very angry. How can they do that? How is that possible in the United States that they can do this, put up a fence in front of our land, and then keep us in here? You know, lock us in?” — D’Ann Loop, American farmer and land owner beyond the border fence in …...

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Lionel Shriver, American Contrarian

On her latest book 'Mania'

May 08, 2024, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

In her latest novel, Mania, iconoclastic author Lionel Shriver investigates the fallout around the fictional 2011 “Mental Parity Movement” in the United States in an alternative yet all too recognizable near past. Dubbed the “last great Civil Rights fight” by its progenitors, Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing …...

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Itchy trigger fingers in Ambos Nogales

By Nicola Moscelli

April 11, 2024

August 27, 1918 Your name is Zeferino Gil Lamadrid, a well-known Mexican carpenter from Nogales, Sonora. It is about 4 PM on an unbearably hot summer day, and you are finally heading back home from some business on the other side of the border with a bulky package under your arm. For you – and …...

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Sight, Sound, Touch, and Taste: Africans Sensing the Dutch in New Netherland

By Lavada Nahon

March 27, 2024

In early New Netherland and New Amsterdam new arrivals, Black and white, tried to recreate the world they had left. As historical sources are scarce and incomplete, historical interpreter and culinary historian Lavada Nahon uses deep empathy and imagination to depict the sensory world of the enslaved. It is easy to put the Africans on …...

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American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin

Poetics and Politics with Award-Winning Poet Terrance Hayes

May 27, 2024, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison, / Part panic closet, in a little room in a house set aflame … I lock your persona in a dream-inducing sleeper hold / While your better selves watch from the bleachers.  In 70 poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings …...

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Orange County was called a ‘cultural desert.’ Today, it is home to more than 200 arts and organizations that offer over 42,000 events.

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The two needed to dispatch a production that influenced Millennials to need to tune in and feel like they’re being heard.

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