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September 21, 2007
MUSIC VIDEO: Avigal Cohen –‘ Erev Rosh HaShanah’ (New Year’s Eve)
Israeli singer songwriter Avigail Cohen expresses universal hopes and doubts in \’Erev Rosh Hashana\’: \”There\’s a last ray of sunlight, the fading year is disappearing in the dim light. What will the New Year bring with it? The darkness spreads a scent of hope.\”
Cake is taken; happiness is not a warm gun; go veg, young man!
Letters to the Editor\n
Artists, art directors, photographers and ‘Dollywood,’ oh my!
Picks and Clicks.
Abstract eye follows Dali in film at LACMA
Early in the last century, when film was a newer medium, many artists were intrigued by its kinetic visual possibilities, and for a fantasist like Dali, the opportunities must have seemed especially rich.
The (almost) hardest-working man in classical music
\”I have the great good fortune to have an ear to the ground and a great many wonderful colleagues,\” Kahane said of his network of music-world sources, mostly fellow musicians with whom the conductor has formed strong bonds.
Think you know ‘The Jazz Singer’? You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!
The Warners predicted, correctly, that \”The Jazz Singer\” would be \”without a doubt, the biggest stride since the birth of the industry.\” But the film\’s importance may not rest solely on the fact that it was the first sound film. It was also the first film to boldly address the assimilation of immigrant Jews into American culture.
Books: The bible and history — facts or truth?
Cline\’s book is a dispassionate recounting of the central issues that preoccupy scholars and pseudoscholars of the biblical text.
Black Eyed Peas and the Commitments rock the walls of Jerusalem
\”We\’re missing the MTV Awards for this because we feel it\’s a very important \’cause … this is the Holy Land,\” said Fergie. It was the Black Eyed Peas\’ second concert in Israel, having performed in Tel Aviv last summer. But it was their first time performing in Jerusalem, where they headlined Jerusalem Rocks! a nonprofit international music festival celebrating peace and unity.
TV: Shoah makes searing mark in Ken Burns WWII documentary
\”We wanted to use four [American] towns as examples to get to know people — those who fought and those who stayed at home — and to get to their experiences as it happened.\”
The result is Burns and co-director Lynn Novick seeing the war as it was unfolding through the eyes of soldiers from Mobile, Ala.; Sacramento; Waterbury, Conn., and Luverne, Minn., to show, in so many ways, the ongoing hellishness of even a necessary war.
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