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The Guilted Age

By Ezra Glinter

Reading Wallace Shawn’s new collection of essays, it’s hard not to hear his distinctive nasal chirp declaiming aloud in the mind’s ear. This is particularly true because, in an unusual move for the actor and playwright, the essays are written in Shawn’s own voice. “Perhaps it’s disturbing or frightening how easy it is to become ‘someone else,’ to say the words of ‘someone else.’ It really doesn’t feel odd at all, I have to tell you,” he admits in the book’s introduction. While the ability to embody fictional characters has served Shawn well in his dramatic work, in this case he has discarded his various personae in favor of his own unmediated thoughts.Read More

Sparks Fly in the Brandwein: Classic Klezmer for Six Strings

By Ezra Glinter

The Piedmont region of the Eastern United States is best known for blues, not klezmer. But acoustic guitarist Tim Sparks, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., is throwing the weight of his background behind Jewish folk music, reinventing both the music and the guitar in the process.Read More

A Bubbling Font of Creativity

By Ezra Glinter

Despite its ubiquity, type design is easy to overlook; it’s the meaning of words that usually matters, not their appearance.Read More

Triple Threat

By Ezra Glinter

Despite her successful career as a singer, actor, comedian and author, Rain Pryor is most frequently identified as the daughter of the famously outspoken African-American comedian Richard Pryor and Jewish dancer Shirley Bonus. But Pryor’s parentage and upbringing have given her a wealth of her own material.Read More

Folding, Twisting or Burning Bridges

By Ezra Glinter

Levi Riven doesn’t look like a compelling subject for a documentary film, but the amiable, slightly graying psychology student is at the center of Montreal filmmaker Eric Scott’s recent movie, “Leaving the Fold,” a revealing look at Hasidic Jews who have abandoned their religious upbringing for a secular lifestyle. After receiving plaudits at the Montreal film festival last year, the film will air on Canadian public television April 20. During the spring, it also will have showings on Belgian, Finnish and Australian television.Read More


 

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