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Will new Jewish TV Channel (TJC) click with viewers?

The Jewish Channel (TJC), an ambitious enterprise that, depending on who\’s talking, is either the new Jewish HBO or the latest tawdry entry in a long series of failed attempts to create one

Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory

One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-\’80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material.

Paul Shapiro’s ‘vout’ mishegoss

In 1945, the hippest Hollywood nightlife destination was Billy Berg\’s, on the corner of Vine and DeLongpre. A tall, suave black man named Slim Gaillard, who favored pinstripe suits, held court there. Black entertainers were seldom booked west of Western Avenue in those days, and Gaillard\’s appearances at Berg\’s were, in a very real sense, where Hollywood\’s racial integration began.

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