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Understanding Urban Violence
On March 8, 2010
John Rich founded the Young Men’s Health Clinic at the Boston Medical Center as a modest project with a big goal.
“At that time, you could pretty much do anything as long as it didn’t cost anybody any money,” joked Rich, author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men.
What’s Next for Cuba?
On February 25, 2010
Two years to the day since Raul Castro took office in Cuba — replacing his long-ruling and then-ailing brother Fidel — Julia Sweig visited Zócalo at the Skirball Cultural Center to talk about changes in the country and its relations with the U.S.
“Your timing, Zócalo, is excellent,” Sweig said.
Gregg Easterbrook on the Next Boom
On February 4, 2010
On his flight to Los Angeles, Gregg Easterbrook, author of Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed
Jaron Lanier: Computers Can’t Replace Us
On January 29, 2010
At the Actors’ Gang, Jaron Lanier greeted his audience as no other Zócalo audience has ever been greeted: “Hello, humans.”
It was an appropriate way for Lanier….
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Orson Welles
Orson Welles was born on May 6, 1915, and directed his most acclaimed film, Citizen Kane, at age 26. Years later, after a couple disastrous movies and a sojourn in Europe, he would reunite with one of its stars, Joseph Cotton, in The Third Man. Welles' character, Harry Lime, is the missing center of the movie until he appears, finally, and explains his motives for entering a less-than-savory line of work....
