2 August 2010

Julius Garfinkle’s integrity

Actress Julie Garfield remembers her father John Garfield in a curtain talk following the screening of “Body and Soul” (1947, dir. Robert Rossen, d.p., James Wong Howe, screenplay Abraham Polansky.

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25 July 2010

Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner, still kings of comedy

“We didn’t know if they were after Communists, Jews, or just short people.”  So said Mel Brooks about the black list in an inimitable in-person appearance with longtime colleague Carl Reiner at the Egyptian Theater Friday night.

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5 June 2010

“Get down, Moses” listening party

artsmeme enjoyed Josh Kun’s “Get Down, Moses” listening party at the Skirball Center in tandem with the Jews on Vinyl exhibit. [...]

20 April 2010

BODYTRAFFIC & Barak Marshall fete Israel's 62nd

The grand opening of Haim Saban’s SABAN theatre in Los Angeles last night featured a rocking variety show and wonderful showcase of Barak Marshall’s “MONGER” on dance troupe BodyTraffic. [...]

23 February 2010

Bernstein meets Farber @ Pacific Serenades

Pacific Serenades debuts a chamber work by Israeli born composer Sharon Farber on March 6. [...]

9 January 2010

Hitler's emigres & exiles in Southern California

“Hitler’s Emigres and Exiles in Southern California,” a new book by Dorothy Lamb Crawford, has multiple events in Los Angeles [...]

3 December 2009

Herb Alpert, local hero

From humble, hard-working background beginnings in Los Angeles, innovative musician/entrepreneur Herb Alpert has become a premiere American arts patron, doling out generous grants to artists both at start-up stage and at mid-career. [...]

19 November 2009

Shtetl shport

Jewish guys are not wimps — never have been.

This according to shtetl shpecialist Yale Strom, a San Diego-based documentary filmmaker/photographer, leading ethnographer of klezmer music, and an unbelievably talented klezmer violinist who has taken more than sixty cultural research trips to preserve central European yiddishkeit.

In a talk at the Yiddish Cultural [...]

29 June 2009

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

Visions of Israel inevitably surface while watching “Decadance,” Ohad Naharin’s perennial greatest-hits collection of choreographic output since the 1980s. [...]

13 May 2009

Biblical love

Biblical lovers Jacob and Rachel inspire a dance/music event at Wadsworth Theater next Tuesday May 19 — the delayed premiere of a lively, colorful, and full-bodied ballet score written by composer Eric Zeisl in 1954. [...]