Warning: spoilers ahead. This week’s “Party of Five” felt like a filler despite shocking backstory revelations. “Patch Job,” the sixth episode of the Freeform production, finally provided some much-needed clarification to the motivations of some of its main characters. Read more...
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A new take on a 90s off-broadway hit hopes to break the stigma surrounding mental illness. Modeled after “The Vagina Monologues” – a play created from almost 300 interviews with women discussing female sexuality – “The Manic Monologues” is set to deliver the same true-to-life format to help depict mental illness in a more relatable way. Read more...
Photo: Jennifer Bruno, Julie Lee and Grégoire Faucher are a few of the performers who will be sharing their mental health journeys in “The Manic Monologues.” Creators Zack Burton and Elisa Hofmeister said they hope to facilitate a discussion not often heard. (Courtesy of Frank Chen)
Warning: spoilers ahead. Seventeen minutes can be an eternity. In the final season of “Bojack Horseman,” the second half of which premiered Jan. 31, the titular character is continually haunted by this reminder. Read more...
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Family-owned businesses in Park City reflect on the impacts of the film festival. Read more...
St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein set out to document their friendship. What followed was “The Nowhere Inn,” which premiered at Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 25 and creates a metafictional account of Brownstein and St. Read more...
This post was updated Feb. 3 at 10:03 a.m. “La Leyenda Negra” grapples with colonial legacies new and old. Written and directed by alumna Patricia Vidal Delgado, the black and white film follows Aleteia, an immigrant from El Salvador who joins an underground anarchist group at Compton High School. Read more...
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UCLA psychologist Harold Garfinkel began a case study on Agnes in the 1950s. Agnes would go on to become the central figure in one of the first sociological conversations surrounding the transgender community. Read more...
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