By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The Guggenheim’s strange and wonderful exhibition of Hilma af Klint’s groundbreaking, yet largely unknown body of abstract art is an important event – one that challenges us to not only rethink the early history of twentieth century abstract art, but to recognize her vision of art and reality
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The Academy Award for Best Movie went to Green Book, a film about black musician Don Shirley, who toured through the Jim Crow South in the 1940’s, and his relationship with his bodyguard/driver, a white Italian from New York named Tony Vallelonga. The movie title refers to
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Where will it end? When will there be a halt to the shattering of beloved institutions? Prompting this concern is a just-released report of a respected Israeli archaeological team, Alt Zackhn Gefunen (Yiddish, meaning “old things found”). The report asserts that Haman wore an oval-shaped hat, not
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Chris Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Sandra Alvarado of San Diego Rapid Response Network waited outside the shelter for the next busload of immigrants to arrive. A mother and daughter got off the bus and immediately went over and hugged Alvarado. “I had to turn around and cry,” said Alvarado,
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International, San Diego County, USA
The Trails Eatery, 7389 Jackson Dr. San Diego, California 92119 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — Tucked in the Keil’s shopping center in San Carlos is a little restaurant that has gathered itself a loyal local following. That restaurant is the Trails Eatery. Walking in you might feel as though you’re in a diner from
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There are polls every day or two. You can see the latest by clicking here. They pretty much are showing a tie, or close to it between the center-left and the right. Bibi is a sharp campaigner, managing to label his opponents the leftists, with the help of media and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSAN DIEGO –The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra, joined by the San Diego Mormon Choir and soprano Lindsay Robison Killian, will present a pair of concerts March 30 and April 2 dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal, spiritual leader emeritus of Tifereth Israel Synagogue and former member of the orchestra. Conductor David Amos said
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Ken Stone and Chris Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Allen Bellman worked for the late, great Stan Lee in the Golden Age of comic books — the 1940s and 1950s. He helped draw Captain America. Bellman created a strip of his own — “Let’s Play Detective.” He worked for Marvel Comics
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Ken Stone, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, seems to equate homophobia with the plight of the Palestinians. His experiences as a homosexual, he suggested, helped him empathize with the “human rights” violations suffered by the Palestinians. Pocan joined Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib on Feb. 27 during the Washington, D.C.,
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Middle East, USABy Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — The political tension between Kosovo and Serbia is creating a perfect environment wherein Turkey and Russia can lure the two countries into their respective spheres of influence. High-ranking US and EU envoys are trying to resolve the long-standing dispute, urging Serbia and Kosovo to normalize relations
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Alon Ben-Meir, InternationalBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In 1963 I was a student at Columbia University getting my master’s degree in clinical social work and writing book reviews for the Child Study Association. Dr. Peter Neubauer, a prominent child psychiatrist and Director of the Child Development Center, had seen my work and called to
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Natasha Josefowitz, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – Eva Schloss, 89, who has a powerful Holocaust survival story to tell about herself, knows that the world also hungers for details about her posthumous step-sister Anne Frank, the famous young girl diarist, whom she had known in Amsterdam before their respective families had gone into hiding from
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA