Arts
Lesley Gore will perform Jan. 10-11 at the Dakota Jazz Club
Lesley Gore, the singer famed for the '60s hit singles “It’s My Party" and “It’s Judy’s Turn to Cry,” is still performing,...
Marv Davidov’s nonviolent resistance chronicled by poet
Marv Davidov is known locally as a guiding light of the Honeywell Project, the campaign to stop the Minneapolis-based firm’s...
Garrison Keillor: Non-Christians, 'buzz off' (Update at end)
Garrison Keillor, host of the popular A Prairie Home Companion weekly radio variety show, displays his cranky side in a...
William Kunstler’s daughters examine controversial activist lawyer's legacy in documentary
Radical lawyer took on cases that made him reviled by some in the Jewish community By MICHAEL FOX Late in...
Mark Bloom's new double-CD album includes a song, or three, for every Jewish holiday
Mark Bloom covers a range of style — blues, funk, jazz, rock, salsa and swing — in his new double-CD...
Hanuka Cover Contest winners announced
Hanuka art by Yasha Hoffman, winner of the 2009/5770 AJW Hanuka Cover Contest. Hoffman's artwork appears on the cover of...
Why are we here?
Soul to Soul: A Guide by Judy J. Weinberger will be published in February by Two Harbors Press By ERIN...
Documentary spans the globe asking, 'What is God?'
Filmmaker Peter Rodger shleps his camera to exotic locales —Â from the American Southwest to the Himalayas —Â and asks folks, "What...
'Ida's Story' portrays a child's survival in Ukraine, and makes larger point about resisting genocide
By CRYSTAL ERICKSON TC Daily Planet A documentary 10 years in the making, Ida's Story had its big-screen debut at North Minneapolis's...
Ben Sidran’s Dylan tunes are arranged differently
Madison, Wisc.-based jazz pianist and composer Ben Sidran has recorded an album of Dylan covers. Dylan Different (Nardis Music) includes...
