3. SOUTH OF MY BORDER (Rita, Siqueiros)
When Olvera Street is named as the City's number 1 destination by the LA Times, Mrs. Sterling commissions David Siqueiros, a famous Mexican muralist, to paint a romantic mural celebrating the street's success. When Siqueiros meets Rita sparks fly. Their attraction plays out in the tango, South of My Border. Although from the beginning Rita can see him for what he is—a womanizer, she's annoyed that she's attracted to him anyway.

3 - South Of My Border

4. HOT TAMALES TONIGHT (Rita, Cha-Cha, Gert)
The Great Depression has brought with it hard times, and Prohibition is in full swing— alcohol is illegal. To bring in extra money Rita has opened a speakeasy, a secret bar behind her family's tamale stand. Hot Tamales Tonight is a diegetic song, cabaret-style, and designed to entertain the speakeasy's patrons while encouraging them to enjoy themselves and to drink her booze.

4 - Hot Tamales Tonight - 1

5. OUT WITH THE OLD (Siqueiros, Jerónimo, Art Students) 
On a rooftop above Olvera Street, the site of the proposed mural, Siqueiros (the revolutionary and celebrated Mexican muralist), has gathered the art students he's selected to help him create it. Among the students is Rita's younger and impressionable brother, Jerònimo. Siqueiros has just told the students the mural they're making won't be the phony idealized notion of tropical America (Latin America) that Mrs. Sterling has commissioned. In Out With the Old he ignites a passion in the students to help him create something important; a mural that will reveal an ugly truth that society must face.

5 - Out With The Old

6. MARRIED GUYS (Cha Cha, Gert)
Siqueiros enters the speakeasy where Rita, Cha Cha, and Gert are getting ready for the evening crowd. He invites Rita to attend a posh party with him that is being thrown in his honor. Rita tells him he should ask his wife to go with him, but Siqueiros informs her his wife has returned to Mexico after they had a fight. Cha Cha asserts Rita is busy. She has prior plans with her and Gert. As Siqueiros exits he tells Rita if her plans change she is welcome to join him. Cha Cha and Gert remind Rita that although Siqueiros is handsome and charismatic, he is a married man.

6 - Married Guys

8. NOT-AMERICAN-ENOUGH-FOR-YOU BLUES, (Rita, Cha Cha, Gert) 
Angered and saddened by the LAPD raid on her neighborhood and deportation of her father, Rita takes to the small stage inside the speakeasy to voice her discontent through song. She is joined by the Hot Tamale Dancers, Cha Cha and Gert.

8 - Not American Enough Blues

We’re making sure that the post-Oscar hullabaloo doesn’t drown out the rainbow highlights at the 94th Academy Awards. Best Supporting Actress Ariana DeBose’s historic win and other notable themes are reviewed by Ann Northrop and Andy Humm of GayUSA TV, and independent filmmaker David Michael Barrett talks about some queer parallels in Best Picture CODA.

A pair of “Rainbow Minutes” look at war and poetry in “Walt Whitman Comforts Comrades” and “Walt Whitman Remembers Abe” (read by Allen Browne, produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns).

And in NewsWrap: U.N. panel declares lesbian sex a human right, Thai politicians play hot potato with marriage equality, attorneys line up to fight Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, U.S. passports now offer “X” gender marker option, crazed Q-Anon Congresswoman snipes at the Buttigiegs, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Melanie Keller and Michael Taylor-Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor).

All this on the April 4, 2022 edition of This Way Out!

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A city in Mexico unknown to most Americans might have saved the Union during the Civil War in the U.S.

The Battle Of Puebla

In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Ty Priest, associate professor of history and geography at the University of Iowa. Priest explains the origin, history, and potential future of the Defense Production Act in the context of US energy development. Priest and Raimi discuss how the act has evolved and expanded under different presidential administrations since it was enacted in 1950 and how the act has been invoked to promote domestic energy security in the face of major concerns such as COVID and climate change.

References and recommendations:

“Global Gambits: Big Steel and the US Quest for Manganese” by Tyler Priest; https://typriest.com/global-gambits/

“‘Can We Please Stop Talking about Energy Independence?’” by Daniel Raimi; https://www.resources.org/common-resources/can-we-please-stop-talking-about-energy-independence/

“Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s” by Jay Hakes; https://www.oupress.com/9780806190983/energy-crises/

“The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe” by Thane Gustafson; https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987951

The History of the Defense Production Act in the Energy Sector, with Ty Priest

America's Cold War relationships have created conditions for very hot wars to take place. The current war in Ukraine is part of that sorry Cold War legacy.

Original article: https://mises.org/wire/theres-reason-george-washington-warned-against-entangling-relationships

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There's a Reason George Washington Warned against "Entangling Relationships" | Daren Epstein

A brief discussion of how celebrity culture in historical objects can help explain how and why they sometimes end up in the most unexpected places.

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"Who Put That There?" - Episode 1: The Lee Letter

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Show synopsis— América Tropical, a mural deemed too offensive for the public, re-emerges decades after it was whitewashed. Its reappearance haunts Rita Rey with bittersweet memories of Prohibition era Los Angeles— a time when she had to fight a crooked system to save her family. Rita’s resistance gets her father, an American citizen, deported under the ruthless Mexican Repatriation policy. When Mexican muralist and revolutionary David Siqueiros becomes infatuated with Rita, his answer to her problems is retaliation. Rita is mistakenly arrested as a communist subversive, and she vows to find another way to stop a crooked cop who’s torn her world apart. The stakes are raised when it’s clear failure will mean she’ll lose everything. In the end Rita understands the ugly truth Siqueiros revealed in América Tropical cannot be whitewashed or covered up. And though progress has been made, the mural still speaks powerfully to the long way we have yet to go towards acceptance and equality.

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