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Beth Accomando
A decade later, Arabella Benson's elaborate "Days of Future Past, Past" — reimagining the X-Men as 18th-century aristocrats — remains a fan favorite of the Comic-Con Masquerade stage.
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Kneecap, three young men from Northern Ireland who rap in Irish, has risen to prominence in recent years, with controversy surrounding its shows and political statements. -
The hip-hop mogul's legal saga has reached an uneasy outcome. Despite a tainted legacy and severed business ties, does his acquittal on the most serious charges leave room for a return?
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KPBS Midday EditionBruno Dominguez is one of 110 high school students who competed at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards, known as the Jimmy Awards, in New York last week. Also, we look at what The Old Globe is serving up this summer in terms of Shakespeare. Then, your weekend arts preview. -
Told he was wrong about his own history, Kumeyaay educator Ethan Banegas co-wrote a powerful comic book that brings truth, culture and survival into classrooms and pushes back against the silence that has erased Native stories for generations.
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His representatives confirmed that his death followed a cardiac arrest this morning. -
Shakespeare comedies take the stage with tales of unrequited love and mistaken identities.
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This weekend in the arts in San Diego: Outdoor digital art at UC San Diego; ICA NextGen; San Diego Symphony and fireworks; "The Janeiad" at The Old Globe; "Consequential Dances" at Art Produce; Lambda Archives Intergenerational Exhibit at the Central Library; live music and more arts picks. -
Ahead of next month's San Diego Comic-Con, the Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park unveiled two new exhibits Monday, featuring 20 years of a fashion brand and 40 years of a home-grown comic.
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Seller has been a key behind-the-scenes figure for some of Broadway's biggest hits including, Hamilton and Rent, but he got his start on a much smaller scale. He looks back in a new memoir. -
The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours. -
Filmmakers stuff the killer-robot sequel with extraneous plot threads, but preserve the B-movie appeal of the original.
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