\”It\’s cozy out here,\” says Arthur Golden, author of \”Memoirs of a Geisha.\” Out here is in the Japanese garden in the back of Elixir, a teahouse in West Hollywood.
In Myra Goldberg\’s short story, \”Who Can Retell,\” reprinted in the National Public Radio anthology, \”Hanukkah Lights, Stories of the Season\” (Melcher Media, 2005), a young girl is concerned that her school\’s holiday glee club is singling out all the Jewish students to sing Chanukah songs.
When Steve Berlin gained early admission to a university premed program as an 11th-grader, his mother and father had visions of their little boy becoming a physician. Much to their chagrin, the young Berlin had other ideas. He told them he dreamed of becoming a rocker — not a doctor. They worried about his future.
It\’s official. According to VH-1, it is now hip to be Hebrew. The music television channel premieres \”VH-1 All Access: So Jewtastic\” on Dec. 19, making a case for the current trendiness of our tribe.
Guilt & Pleasure — \”A magazine for Jews and the people who love them\” — hit newsstands across North America last month, offering readers content ranging from long-form essays and memoirs to fiction, comics, photography and archival material.
Formerly high-riding New York producer Max Bialystock is on the ropes after a series of flops. When meek accountant Leo Bloom comes into his office to inspect the books, Bloom makes a discovery: If a producer raises a bundle of money to put into a show, but it closes immediately, he can reap a windfall.
Jewish community. With courage and vision, we need to act on this opportunity by understanding the important changes that have occurred over the last decades and rethinking the way we engage the broader Jewish community.
There were always Jews in punk, even before there was punk.
\”It really begins with Lenny Bruce,\” says Steven Beeber, whose new book \”The Heebie Jeebies at CBGBs: A Secret History of Jewish Punk,\” will be published next year by A Capella Books. \”Bruce sort of epitomizes the attitude, the whole smart-ass, clever truth-telling.\”
In fact, the punk attitude is also a Jewish attitude that begins with the midrash, in which Abram smashes all but one of his father\’s household idols and blames the sole survivor for the wreckage.
Some years ago, playwright-performer Eve Ensler became mortified by her not-so-flat, post-40s belly. She starved herself, hired a trainer and watched late-night Ab-Roller infomercials. She compulsively worked the treadmill and even fantasized about contracting a parasite.
The weekly listing of arts events in the Los Angeles region for the week of December 3rd through 9th, 2005.
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