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It’s Christmas 2017 and my dad’s eyes explode as he unwraps a DVD of the 1979 film Boulevard Nights, a film he’s talked about for years until my brother finally gifted him a copy. My father raised us ...

Bless Me, Última, a Mexican-American opera by composer/librettist Héctor Armienta, premiered in Albuquerque, but will have its West Coast premiere in San Jose. The opera, co-produced by Opera ...

Some stories are eternal and the soap opera-style drama of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy “Oedipus Rex” continues to ...

Rudolpho Anaya's 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima is a classic of Chicano literature. The story begins for Antonio, 6, when Ultima comes to live with his New Mexico family in 1944. Ultima is called a witch ...