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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
LA band Chicano Batman reflects on Trump's first year The Latin–psychedelic soul band Chicano Batman has been touring with their album “Freedom is Free” for most of Trump’s first year in office. The video for “Freedom is Free” features each of the band members being tortured and drowned by two nondescript agents in aviator sunglasses. What’s it like to make political music in the Trump era? The band Chicano Batman. Photo by Josue Rivas.
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Art Talk
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Film Reviews
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Within the first 30 seconds you know you’re watching something new. A sensational title sequence threatens to be the design equivalent of flash bang grenades, yet the art isn’t assaultive, only inventive, with colors that stretch the spectrum as far as the eye can see.