By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes art dictates life. When I interviewed Perry Chen and his mom, Dr. Zhu Shen on Wednesday, I felt that art and life inform each other, with one or the other alternatively taking the lead. It has been six years since I met […]
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Eva Trieger, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
American Jewish Committee seeks nationwide effort to combat hate crimes The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is calling for a concerted government effort to combat hate crimes. The call to action comes after the FBI issued its latest annual report, which showed a 17 percent increase in hate crimes during 2017, compared to the year before.
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International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee died Monday. As a memorial to him, here’s an excerpt from an article I wrote in 2003 about the first X-Men movie: The creators of the X-Men comic book series belong to the generation of American-born Jews who sought acceptance and social mobility through assimilation.
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Lawrence Baron, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The Matt Tyrnauer documentary Studio 54 tells of the meteoric rise of two Jewish business partners, their spectacular fall, and their efforts to reclaim their lives, one successfully, the other cut short by AIDS. Their names: Steve Rubell and Ian Shrager. They met at Syracuse University. Rubell was extroverted
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Several hundred women—and a smattering of men—gathered at a lovely home in the Brentwood area this past Sunday to participate in the opening of the 11th season of the Jewish Women’s Theater. Abiding by its overall mission of “celebrating Jewish life onstage, one story at a time”, the JWT
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Janet S. Tiger (c) 2018 (Woman enters, she is nicely dressed, slight European accent, has an older skirt in her hands that she is holding) My family always wanted me to talk about what happened to me during WWII – but, after I did the interview for Shoah, I did not want to talk
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Where there’s a bounty there’s a bounty hunter or two…or possibly three. This fact was made evident in the West Coast Premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s sleuth fest, Holmes and Watson. North Coast Rep’s David Ellenstein directed an all Actor’s Equity cast for this exciting and inimitable twist on Sir
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thine heart.” (Proverbs 3:3) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — What is Truth? How subjective or objective is truth? When we remember the same incident very differently, do we have different “truths”? These philosophical questions have
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California -North Coast Rep Theater will produce the New Works Reading Series sponsored by Nebcal Printing, that will kick off with a dramedy written by stand-up comic Steve Bluestein. I had the good fortune to interview Bluestein by phone earlier this month. Rest, in Pieces is Bluestein’s baby, and will enjoy
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Eva Trieger, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Monrovia, Indiana, a new documentary by Frederick Wiseman, 88, is a piece that will either fascinate you or bore you to tears. There is unlikely to be any middle ground. I was one of those who was fascinated by the portrait Wiseman painted, with the help of photographer
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — It’s a magical movie. In a foreign language. With no subtitles. And it’s one of the most intense experiences you’ll have in a movie—even if you don’t know what they’re talking about. You may want to walk out, but stay with it. It’s worth it. It’s history.It’s First Man, the story of what it took to get
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Cynthia Citron, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Eva Trieger CARLSBAD, California — We generally view grief as a mitigating factor. Death is a harsh clarion signaling a divide between what was once vibrant and dynamic to something silenced and static. New Village Arts turns this concept on its head with Guadalupe in the Guest Room. This beautiful 90 minute one-act play
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Jewish TV commentator’s speech ‘postponed’ by Rutgers Lisa Daftari, a Jewish American of Iranian descent, had been invited by Rutgers University to give a speech on Tuesday, but now the appearance is “postponed”–and according to Daftari “cancelled”–by the university after Muslim students charged Daftari with Islamophobia. Daftari, who frequently appears as a commentator on Fox
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
So God created humanity in his own image. In the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. (Gen 1:27) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — For most of us, gender distinction is pretty clear-cut and we live our lives accordingly. But for some, the picture is more complicated. And
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast