In the Green Room
New at Zócalo
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In the Green Room
Photographer Catherine Opie
We Have to Put Everything Into Our Fight for Trans Rights
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In the Green Room
MOCA Director Johanna Burton
I Go Back to Roland Barthes’ Work When I Need Recalibration
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In the Green Room
Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Snehal Desai
I Think About How We Can Use All the Tools at Our Disposal
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In the Green Room
Whitney Museum Director Emeritus Adam D. Weinberg
I Entered as Adam, I’m Leaving as Adam
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Interview
Raven Chacon Makes Noise
As Zócalo Presents His Work in ‘How Do We Hear America?,’ the Composer Shares His Liner Notes on Composition, U.S. History, and the Los Angeles Music Scene
Raven Chacon has been making noise, literally and otherwise, since he was a youngster growing up in New Mexico. Fascinated by instruments of all kinds (those he’s bought and those …
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Prizes
Announcing the 2024 Zócalo Book Prize Shortlist
Congratulations to Authors Greg Berman & Aubrey Fox, Myisha Cherry, Henry Grabar, Cameron McWhirter & Zusha Elinson, and Héctor Tobar
What do incremental change, forgiveness, parking, guns, and race have in common? They are all forces that strengthen and/or undermine human connectedness, social cohesion, and community—and the subjects of the …
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Essay
Beyond the ‘Dark Fog of Disdain,’ San Francisco Is Still There
How Revisiting a Children’s Book Helped Me See the City by the Bay, On and Off the Page
For a young bookworm like me in 1960s New Jersey, almost nothing was more exciting in elementary school than ordering my own paperbacks from the Scholastic Book catalog. I would …
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Connecting California
Come Home, Kamala
The Vice Presidency, Under Biden, Is a Lose-Lose Proposition. And the California Governorship Is About to Be Open
Come back, Kamala. Come back.
Back to California, where you might have a future.
Away from Washington, D.C., where they will never give you a fair shake.
You’re politically trapped. You’re the unpopular …