What’s It All About?
Teresa Strasser
February 4, 1999
It\’s past midnight, and I can\’t sleep. I call a friend back in San Francisco, a scientist I know who is really good at thinking
Category
Culture
Inside Woody Allen’s TV Past
Michael Aushenker
January 28, 1999
Before films such as \”Radio Days,\” Woody Allen had his television days.
Prime-Time Rabbi
Naomi Pfefferman
January 28, 1999
As part of the edgy juggling-magic-performance act The Mums, back in the 1980s, Albie Selznick ate razor blades, threw knives and produced doves from thin air while juggling torches.
The Ghosts of ‘Riga’
Naomi Pfefferman
January 28, 1999
While writing an aria based on a speech by Joseph Goebbels, for his 1991 opera, \”The Ghosts of Versailles,\” William M. Hoffman was visited by ghosts of his murdered family.
The Artistry of ‘Art’
Gene Lichtenstein
January 21, 1999
Tongue of a Bird,\” now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, is a confoundedly difficult play.
Russian Artists on Display
Gene Lichtenstein
January 21, 1999
It\’s common knowledge that the Jewish exodus from Russia in the late 1980s brought to Israel a flood of talented artists and musicians.
Meet LA’s Art Czar
Tom Tugend
January 21, 1999
When Joanne Corday Kozberg talks about her new job as president and chief operating officer of the downtown Music Center, the key words are \”challenges,\” \”outreach\” and \”re-energizing.\”
The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs
Tom Tugend
January 21, 1999
The history of the Middle East conflict, from the birthpangs of the Jewish state to today\’s headlines, has rarely, if ever, been presented with more immediacy and human color as \”The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs.\”
Wandering Jews
Jewish Journal
January 21, 1999
I had my qualms. Having endured every form of group torture in the name of uniting Jewish men and women, I initially resisted the Traveling Shabbat Singles ad.
Hoop Dreams
Jewish Journal
January 21, 1999
In a Chicago Tribune interview last October, shortly before pro basketball was shut down by a bruising lockout, players\’ union chief Billy Hunter waxed sentimental about his lifelong passion for defending the underdog.
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