Jake Romm
By Jake Romm
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Culture Weekend Reads: Sex In Books, Lost Cities, And German Philosophers
The internet is a vast pile of garbage filled with the most noxious, and noxiously cloying, filth imaginable — especially now. It’s almost a real-life microcosm of the multiverse theory: Think of any depravity, any stupid opinion, any inane joke, and the internet will inevitably supply it. Being a functionally infinitive reality, it will also inevitably…
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Culture Why I Really Want The Walter Benjamin Biopic To Fail
Writing in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Walter Benjamin quotes 20th century French director and film theorist Abel Gance as saying “Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Beethoven will make films . . . all legends, all mythologies and all myths, all founders of religion, and the very religions . . . await their exposed resurrection, and the…
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Culture Meet The Keeper Of Venice’s Forgotten Jewish Cemeteries
If you’re fortunate enough to find yourself in Venice during the Biennale, there’s a piece, recently reported on by the New York Times, that seems especially worth your time – Israeli artist Hadassa Goldvicht’s “The House of Life.” “The House of Life,” “a multiscreen video installation that opened this month at the Palazzo Querini Stampalia Museum”…
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Culture Wanna Talk About David Mamet’s Play? It’ll Cost You 25 Grand
David Mamet seems to be a bit of an oddity in the arts world. On the one hand, he is a renowned playwright, known for works like “Glengarry Glen Ross” (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984). On the other hand, he wrote the screenplay for the disastrously terrible “The Untouchables.” On the…
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Culture Klezmer Is Alive And Well — And These 5 Recordings Prove It
There’s a branch of musical discourse, typified by the neo-classical puritanism of Wynton Marsalis, that likes to distinguish between “real” jazz and “fake” jazz. The “real” or “genuine” or “authentic” is almost always, as you would guess, the old – the “fake” or “inauthentic” being, of course, newer sounds. It’s distinction that, for me, misses something…
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Culture For Joseph Brodsky, On His Birthday
Today we celebrate the birthdays of two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: One dead, one alive, one American by way of Russia, one American by way of Minnesota. One deserved his prize, one — ahem, Bob Dylan — did not, but that’s another story. Let’s pay tribute to the deserving one. Joseph Brodsky…
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Fast Forward Moscow’s Gogol Center And Center Director’s Apartment Raided By Police
Earlier today, Russian police raided the acclaimed Gogol Center in Moscow as well as the home of the theater’s director, Kirill Serebrennikov (whose father is Jewish). Though the Moscow Police have yet to release an official statement, it is being reported that the operation is part of an ongoing corruption investigation. According to the Moscow…
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Culture Celebrate The Moog Inventor’s Birthday With This Bizarre Moog Shabbat Service
Today is Robert Moog’s birthday, and while you may not know his name or who he is, you almost certainly know of his invention – the Moog Synthesizer. Moog (pronounced MOHG), born in New York City on this day in 1934, changed the face of music in the 1960’s – opening up the world of electronic sound…
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