7 Days In Arts
Mike Levy
January 11, 2001
Fans of contemporary Jewish music, you have two chances this weekend to see Debbie Friedman.
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Calendar Calendar January 12-18,2001
Mike Levy
January 11, 2001
Shomrei Torah Synagogue: 9 a.m. Shabbat service, with guest speaker Cantor Avrum Schwartz discussing Abraham Joshua Heschel on the anniversary of his yahrtzeit.
Move Over Santa — It’s the Guy on the Big Flying Dreidel
Michael Aushenker
December 14, 2000
Any grownup interested in getting a hearty chuckle out of this doomed holiday reader will be hard-pressed to find a copy at the local library. For some reason, \”Chanukah Fable\” never really caught on.
Slayer of Movie-making Dragons
Naomi Pfefferman
December 7, 2000
How do you direct your first movie with lavish special effects, stars like Jeremy Irons and a budget of $35 million?
A Thousand Recipes (But Who’s Counting?)
Florence Fabricant
November 23, 2000
It\’s not a stretch to call Woodland Hills-based author Faye Levy\’s 625-page \”1,000 Jewish Recipes\” a culinary bible. It may be the only Jewish cookbook you\’ll ever need.
Boys Wonder
Michael Aushenker
October 26, 2000
Joe [incredulous]: Jewish superheroes?\nSammy: What, they\’re all Jewish, superheroes. Superman, you don\’t think he\’s Jewish? Coming from the old country, changing his name like that. Clark Kent, only a Jew would pick up a name like that for himself.
A Letter to Amichai
Helen Schary Motro
September 28, 2000
People around the world read your poems in 33 languages. You were not lost in translation.
7 Days in the Arts
Mike Levy
September 7, 2000
One of the most prolific playwrights in America and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Richard Greenberg is produced quite often in Southern California, with his plays regularly presented at the South Coast Rep.
‘Strange Fruit’ and Stalinism
David Evanier
August 24, 2000
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
David Margolick, writer of books and articles on legal issues for The New York Times and Vanity Fair, has hit a raw nerve with his haunting book, \”Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights\” (Running Press). The book is an account of the scalding impact of one song – a song about a lynching – on scores of Ameri-can activists, writers, musicians, artists and intellectuals.
7 Days in Arts
Mike Levy
June 29, 2000
Gore Vidal\’s play \”The Best Man\” is a political melodrama full of accusations and incriminations, conceit and deceit – a perfect warm-up for the Democratic convention coming to town in August.
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