Baltimore: The Greatest (Storytelling) City in America
Ready for a quick kvell? Here’s shorthand on the famous People of the Book: Bawlmer Chapter.
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Arts & Life
Haim at the Lacoste Beautiful Desert Pool Party in Thermal, Calif., April 12, 2014. (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Lacoste)
Why the Band Haim Means So Much to Young Jewish Women
Meredith Bilski, 26, who works for the food video company Tastemade, said she got goosebumps the first time she heard Haim’s music in 2013. She has since seen them live four times.
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Rachel Bloom at the Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., Jan. 11, 2018. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Critics' Choice Awards)
Rachel Bloom on Michelle Wolf, Her 1st Movie and Post-‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Plans
Rachel Bloom revealed last month that the fourth season of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” airing this fall will be the show’s last, but she hopes to carry her feminist momentum into future projects.
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The "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibition is on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
An Exhibit Shows Ordinary Americans Knew a Lot About the Holocaust as It Was Happening
“Visitors will be surprised at how much Americans knew about Nazism and the Holocaust and how early they knew it,” curator Daniel Greene said in a release announcing the exhibit, which is titled “Americans and the Holocaust.”
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“We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust” features 18 comics that dealt with the Holocaust. (IDW Publishing/Yoe Books, JTA Collage)
How Comic Books Taught American Kids About the Holocaust
Rafael Medoff and Neal Adams — known for his iconic work on DC Comics’ Batman and Green Arrow — decided to explore how a genre aimed at entertaining youths tackled one of history’s darkest chapters.
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Jake Gyllenhaal at a talk at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Nov. 19, 2017. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
Jake Gyllenhaal will Play Leonard Bernstein in Biopic
Jake Gyllenhaal will star in and co-produce a film about the late Jewish classical music icon Leonard Bernstein.
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Everyman Theatre Announces 2018/2019 Season
Everyman Theatre’s 2018/2019 season includes Tony Award winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, classics and world premieres.
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Ari’el Stachel, right, plays matchmaker to two shy Israelis, played by Rachel Prather and Etai Benson, in “The Band’s Visit.” (Matt Murphy)
‘The Band’s Visit’ Gets 11 Tony Nominations
“The Band’s Visit” garnered 11 Tony nominations, including for best musical.
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Jason Alexander:
"Everybody either saw themselves or saw somebody they cared about as a kind of a George, a guy who was just hapless in life. ... I think it was just the relatability." (Handout)
Jason Alexander to Perform at Beth Tfiloh Gala
Actor Jason Alexander discusses George Costanza, the difference between Italians and Jews and his upcoming Baltimore performance.
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Travel Photos: The Galapagos Islands
The hundreds of photographs I took captured many marvelous moments in time from our Galapagos journey.
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