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Perhaps a movie such as “The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Stefan Zweig.
Read More“To the End of the Land” is about the devastation of war, how war erodes the human spirit, yet how that spirit is far more resilient that we may have ever suspected.
Read MoreAs a solo artist, Neil Finn’s moved away from straightforward pop and toward a moodier sound, with lyrics asking bigger questions about life and mortality.
Read More“Falling Out of Time” is a book that gives all the truth that Israeli writer David Grossman can deliver, and far more intimacy than we strangers who are his readers have earned.
Read More“Buster Keaton’s imagination and ideas are more surrealistic than Chaplin’s, and his stunts are astonishing in terms of their demanding technique, even today”.
Read MoreMulti-talented performer Ibrahim Miari has written an insightful and funny one-man show that draws on his own life as the son of an Israeli Jewish mother and Palestinian Moslem father born in what is now the Israeli city of Akko.
Read MoreThe Emmanuel Music concert was a seriously Big Event, as most Russell Sherman performances are, with many outstanding pianists there to hear it.
Read MoreAnita Hill’s struggle is an essential piece of modern cultural and political history that remains painfully relevant.
Read MoreA sensitive folkie may tell you to get beyond your negativity; these guys tell you to “take all that bullshit and put it in the dumpsta.”
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger