Are we here right now? And if we are, can we trust what we see before us? The idea of life as a complete or occasional dream state isn’t new — it goes back millennia, stretching through Mahayana Buddhism to the ancient Greeks and into the Renaissance. In the past few decades, the idea that […]
Victor Parra
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The Women Have It
It’s International Women’s Day this Friday, March 8, so it’s particularly appropriate that Humboldt theater-goers have two very different female-centric productions to choose from. At Humboldt State University’s Gist Hall Theatre is José Rivera’s Adoration of the Old Woman, a well-crafted envisioning of Puerto Rico’s future through the eyes of a young woman, her great-grandmother, […]
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Border Dispute
Neighbors can be odd. Next-door neighbors even more so. You’re not under the same roof, like siblings. But you are expected to get along with them, albeit for reasons of geography rather than genetics, and, like family, you don’t always get to choose them. In the comedy Native Gardens by Karen Zacarias, the first offering […]