The Arts

62 films slated for upcoming S.D. Jewish Film Festival

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 27th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 8-19, 2017. The 12-day Festival is the largest Jewish cultural event in San Diego and draws over 17,000 attendees annually

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Veteran PBS Journalist Gwen Ifill Has Died; She Was 61 Years Old

Gwen Ifill, the host of “Washington Week” on PBS and co-host of the PBS “NewsHour,” is dead at the age of 61, according to reports. Ifill joined PBS in 1999 as both the moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week,” the network’s Sunday-morning talk show. In 2013, PBS named Ifill co-host of the PBS “NewsHour,”

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Leon Russell dies at 74; hit songwriter, Wrecking Crew member, musical bridge builder

Leon Russell, instantly recognizable for his long white hair and a rich, hearty voice that drifted between country and soul, died Saturday in Nashville, Tenn. He was 74. Russell was lauded for swampy rockers such as “Delta Lady” and “Roll Away the Stone,” and for heart-rending ballads such as the oft-recorded “A Song for You”

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials

Jewish trivia quiz: Leonard Cohen, z”l

By Mark D. Zimmerman NEW YORK — Surely the most famous song written and performed by Leonard Cohen, who passed away last week, is Hallelujah. The song, with its Biblical references to Samson and Delilah and David and Bathsheba, has been covered by hundreds of performers, including Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainright, Willie Nelson and Justin

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Uncovered letters shed light on Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig

The Jewish Austrian author Stefan Zweig corresponded with an aspiring writer for years before the Nazis rose to power in Germany. These previously unknown letters have now emerged decades after his death. Tel Aviv (dpa) – The letters from one of the most important writers of the 1920s and 1930s had sat in a bank

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Middle East

Israel’s president pays personal tribute to Leonard Cohen: ‘A giant of a creator, open to all people’

Rivlin: He added a depth of emotion to our lives; ‘Dance Me to the End of Love’ was the soundtrack to so many moments in ‘our life as a couple and a family’ By Times of Israel staff Leonard Cohen during a concert in Ramat Gan, Israel, September 24, 2009. (Marko / Flash90) Israeli President

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials

Robert Vaughn, star of ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ dies at 83

Robert Vaughn, who became an international TV star in the 1960s playing suave and debonair superspy Napoleon Solo on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” while also playing a role in the era’s anti-war movement, died Friday. He was 83. Vaughn died after a brief battle with acute leukemia, his manager, Matthew Sullivan, confirmed to The Associated

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Leonard Cohen, spiritual musician who stirred a generation, dies at 82

Jewish singer-songwriter and poet, best known for ballad ‘Hallelujah,’ dies month after releasing last album about coming to terms with mortality By AFP , AP and Times of Israel staff Leonard Cohen in concert at London’s O2 Arena, September 15, 2013. (Brian Rasic/Getty Images/JTA) Leonard Cohen, the storied musician and poet hailed as one of

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

The Mighty Hillary Strikes Out

(With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer) By Laurie Baron The outlook was optimistic for Clinton-Kane just yesterday. The polls showed leads of three points, but narrowing each day. When Comey concluded that she was not to blame. The voters who despised her had nothing to defame. The Donald was campaigning, appealing to white males. Spouting

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lawrence Baron, Sports & Competitions, USA

Book celebrates 28 of San Diego’s remarkable women

Remarkable Women of San Diego: Pioneers, Visionaries and Innovators by Hannah S. Cohen and Gloria G. Harris; History Press © 2016; ISBN 9781467-118262; 144 pages including index and bibliography, $21.90. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Divided into four time periods that begin in 1850, 1900, 1950 and 2000, this collection of biographical sketches honors

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA

Corporate raider drama comes to the L.A. stage

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If Lawrence Garfinkle comes to your town, be wary!  And be afraid.  Be very afraid.  Garfinkle, known to his fellow Wall Street stockbrokers as “Larry the Liquidator,” is known to be ruthless, relentless, and rich.  When he comes to town you can be sure somebody’s struggling business is about to be “restructured.”

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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Women play all the parts in SDSU’s ‘ Julius Caesar’

“And we are governed with our mothers’ spirits. Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.”  –(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Sc 3) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Years ago, I had an artistic residency with a group of fourth graders doing a condensed version of Julius Caesar. I put to them this question: Who

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Concert review: Bob Dylan as you have always � and never � known him

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ghosts haunted the Belk Theater stage Sunday night during the concert by Bob Dylan and his band. Shades of all the other authors who have won the Nobel Prize for literature, challenging him to sing the complex and poetic lyrics that earned him the award this year. The spirit of Frank Sinatra,

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA