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September 14, 2006
Signs of life
Karnit Goldwasser works for the release of the soldiers captured by Hezbollah on a July 12 raid into Israeli territory. Those captured soldiers are Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, Karnit\’s husband. Since the afternoon of July 12, when an area commander came to visit her with the news, she has devoted herself to freeing the two, as well as Gilad Shalit, captured by Hamas in Gaza 17 days earlier.\n
Holy Moses — The Getty’s latest collection puts a Christian perspective on the leader, lawgiver and
The Getty Center\’s upcoming exhibition \”Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai\” (Nov. 14-March 4) provides a great opportunity to ponder these religious confluences, while also coming almost face-to-face with some of the earliest, and most beautiful, images in Christian art.
Which came first: the building or the dress?
\”Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture,\” opening Nov. 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Art downtown, proposes that building design and haute couture have increasingly begun to overlap and borrow ideas from one another.
Grown-up Ringwald gets ‘Sweet’ again — thanks to Fosse
Molly Ringwald will play Charity Hope Valentine, a nice but tarnished rent-a-girl who remains optimistic despite a series of humiliating misadventures.\n\”It\’s, um, not exactly the kind of thing I\’m most associated with.\”
Fight or flight? A Jewish Cuban mom wonders
Melinda Lopez\’s \”Sonia Flew,\” which opens at the Laguna Playhouse on Sept. 16, depicts the parallel struggles of a Cuban girl in 1961 and a half-Jewish, half-Cuban American boy just after Sept. 11.
The ‘revenge of the fired’ could fill a book — and does
Annabelle Gurwitch and her book, \”Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed,\” which includes the pink-slipped memories of folks like Robert Reich, Felicity Huffman and Bill Maher.
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