Native Intelligence
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If you can't stand the heat...

What you need in the desert on the hottest day of the year during a stay-home pandemic is not a power outage.
Native Intelligence
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Fired up

Smoky air + plus southeast winds = a brilliant desert sunset
Native Intelligence

Talk to me

One enemy of social justice is our inability to discuss race with each other.
Don Shirley
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'The Present'...and the fuzzy future of L.A. theater

The essence of theater is that we leave home and enter that intersection between live performers and live spectators -- in a public, physical locale. How is that going to happen until most audience members and artists are vaccinated?
Ellen Alperstein
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The sea is dying, the art lives

Creative communities thrive hard by the moribund Salton Sea.
Ellen Alperstein
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The company of one

1 might be the loneliest number, but also the most salubrious.
Native Intelligence
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Closing the social distance

A holiday celebration for everybody who loves corned beef.