🪞Through the looking glass at National Queer Arts Fest 🪞
Plus: Prop B opponents rally, a Mesopotamian queen inspires, a forbidding Hitler film returns, more
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Today's headlines:
Through the looking glass at the National Queer Arts Festival
By Marke B.
28th iteration dives into a 'Magic Mirror' of community reflection and ancestral resonance, with sound baths, Black astrology, more.
Broad coalition urges No on B vote
By JJ Lansing
Advocates say it's a solution in search of a problem.
Screen Grabs: Forbidden, foreboding ‘Hitler, A Film From Germany’ returns
By Dennis Harvey
Plus: Jude Law as Putin in 'Wizard of the Kremlin,' 500 years of ginkgo in 'Silent Friend,' and a masterpiece of non-sectarian mysticism
Like her mother, sculptor Maryam Yousif is inspired by a Mesopotamian warrior queen
By Mary Corbin
Iraqi artist's multitudinous clay explorations are powered by ancient myths, Arabian pop art, anonymous bloggers.
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