Blue Box
‘In Between’: Palestinian women search for balance
In Between, director Maysaloun Hamoud's debut feature film, explores the lives of three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv. Laila...
Organ trio romps on Toy Tunes album
Organist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Bill Stewart have been recording together since 1991. Their musical telepathy is...
Owen Husney: Wild tales of Prince and the music biz
St. Louis Park native Owen Husney became the manager of Prince when the Minneapolis teenager was an unknown musical prodigy....
David Grossman: A comedian dies onstage in Netanya
In David Grossman’s latest novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar (Vintage), now available in paperback, comedian Dov Greenstein tries...
Cohen and Hersch record sublime duos
Jazz clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen tipped me off about this album last November, when we met in Decorah, Iowa. My...
Lee Friedlander brings his camera to the party
Yale University Press has published another volume in its series documenting the work of renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. Parties: The...
Idan Raichel performs in an intimate setting
Israeli superstar Idan Raichel typically tours with a large ensemble. The Idan Raichel Project’s 2014 show at the O’Shaughnessy in...
A novelistic look at the Nazi Olympics
Oliver Hilmes, an acclaimed biographer of Alma Mahler, Cosima Wagner, Franz Liszt and others, turns his sights on the 1936...
Isaac Sidel makes a final appearance in Jerome Charyn’s ‘Winter Warning’
Prolific author Jerome Charyn wraps up his Isaac Sidel mystery series with Winter Warning (Pegasus Crime), a noir thriller...
The Late Set album evokes another era
For their album The Late Set (Anzic Records), vocalist Hilary Gardner and Israeli native Ehud Asherie on piano combine their...
