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Douglas’s 27th Midnight Louie mystery (after 2014’s Cat in a Yellow Spotlight) is strictly for the faithful. Louie, a “twenty-pound alley cat who thinks he’s Sam Spade,” and Temple Barr ...
Tom's advances on a young jive-talking girl cat get nowhere; nowhere, that is, until Tom gets a zoot suit. Armed with his miles of fabric and a new cool lingo, Tom still has to deal with the ...
Zoot Suit Riots | Image Gallery How the Zoot Suit Got So Much Swag The evolution of a flamboyant style that became a symbol for marginalized communities.
“Zoot Suit,” the landmark 1978 play by Luis Valdez that put the struggles of Mexican Americans front and center, is back where it originated at the Mark Taper Forum in an exhilarating revival ...
The Zoot Suit Riots indicate that just as the state-sanctioned violence in 1943 victimized not only zooters, but all people of color, today’s drag bans and stereotyping of clothing will more ...
No longer was the zoot suit evocative of the expressive power of fashion for the disenfranchised so much as it was a historical oddity known by a charming name.