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June 12, 2008
Melding world’s sounds, Ben Ari seeks harmony
He\’s been called the Israeli Bob Marley and the king of Israeli soul. Others claim that he may be the call to prayer that we\’ve all been waiting for from the Middle East
Comic book strip draws on historical New York
Katchor said he doesn\’t think there is a message to his comics — just a model that people can contemplate. \”It should send you back into the world looking at the world in some more subtle way,\” he said. \”It\’s a lesson in how to look at the world.\”
CalArts dance dean creates site-specific ‘Fluid’ movements
At 52 and the new dean of California Institute of the Arts dance program, Koplowitz is currently preparing to make his Los Angeles debut with what he calls his most ambitious project to date
‘Chorus Line’ composer’s music still has a kick
The characters reveal their stories through a mixture of singing and dancing — with some pantomime thrown in. Hamlisch said that from the beginning the creators felt that certain stories were best told through song, others through dance.
Converso cowboys who tamed the U.S. frontier
Among the conquistadors were Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition, some of whom became America\’s first cowboys. Stillman writes about them — and the horses of the conquest — in the first chapter of her new book, \”Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West.\”
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