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November 23, 2007
Chanukah menu dishes up a travelogue of treats
Just back from Italy, I was inspired by the foods served at our favorite restaurants. My Chanukah menu this year is a travelogue of those culinary experiences.
Our Chanukah gift guide for the weird odd special people in your life
Chanukah is less than two weeks away and Black Friday, the shopping day after Thanksgiving, is upon us. If you\’ve been racking your brain trying to come up with gift ideas or putting off writing up your gift list, consider some suggestions from our inaugural gift guide.\n\n
Producer Josephson’s vision for a new fairy-tale princess stars in Disney’s ‘Enchanted’
One of Barry Josephson\’s first forays into the world of fairy tales was in an elementary school production of \”Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.\” Although the \”Men in Black\” producer doesn\’t remember which dwarf he played, that glimmer of the land between \”once upon a time\” and \”happily ever after,\” started him on the path to creating Disney\’s latest film, \”Enchanted,\” opening in theaters Nov. 21.
PBS brings David Broza’s multinational rocking ‘Masada’ to U.S. audience
\”David Broza at Masada: The Sunrise Concert,\” starts at 3:30 a.m. at the foot of Masada, and as dawn breaks in the east, the outlines of the Dead Sea and the Moav Mountains beyond come into stunning view. PBS has caught the spirit and will show this different side of Israel in a 90-minute program airing Dec. 2 on KCET.\n
Sad encounter prompts sex trafficking docudrama
The inspiration for \”Holly,\” a docudrama about child sex-trafficking, came as Israeli-born producer Guy Jacobson inadvertently wandered into a notorious red light district in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh five years ago.\n
Master of musical fusion blends klezmer with salsa
Practitioners of world music are constantly exploring ways to fuse disparate musical strains in new and interesting ways. Given all that, it should not be a surprise that there is a new group that combines klezmer with salsa. Odessa/Havana — \”The Explosive Jewish/Cuban Musical Mash-Up\” — a musical project that brings together these two musical traditions in a jazz context will perform at the Skirball Cultural Center at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29.
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