Margaret Eby
By Margaret Eby
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The Schmooze Barbra Streisand and Adele? It Could Happen
You can’t say Babs is one to sit around and putter. According to Page Six, beloved funny girl Barbra Streisand may be looking for some new duet partners. The musical stalwart recently nabbed a contract extension with Sony Music, where executives are asking Streisand to do an album of her old standbys with younger artists….
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Food Brisketlab: A Smoked Meat Co-Op
Brisket: It’s a staple on the Shabbat table and on the picnic tables of barbecue joints in the South. And self-proclaimed “Czar of Street Food,” Daniel Delaney is bringing it to New York City in a big way. Delaney, 26, is the founder of Brisketlab, an “underground smoked meat guild” that will distribute pounds of…
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The Schmooze Hanukkah, Festival of Black Lights
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined Hanukkah with an electroclash dance party? The Brooklyn art collective CHERYL have, and this year, they’re holding their own version of the festival of lights complete with fake blood, glitter, and, of course, jelly doughnuts. Their part-disco part-performance art project, “CHERYL does CHANUKAH,” will be…
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The Schmooze Monday Music: Awesome Tapes From Africa? Yes, Please!
Where do you go if you want to find Tanzanian bongo music? What about Tsongi disco? South African synth-pop? Unless you happen to be an ethnomusicologist or visiting Africa, the answer is likely the website Awesome Tapes from Africa. Brian Shimkovitz, aka DJ Awesome Tapes from Africa, an ethnomusicology scholar and avid music collector, started…
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Food Q&A: ‘The Perennial Plate’s’ Good Food Road Trip
For the past year, Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine have been exploring the rugged edge of sustainable food in Minnesota. From their online weekly video series, dubbed “The Perennial Plate,” they’ve learned how to harvest wild rice from a lake, spear a fish through ice, and drill for maple syrup — and that’s just for…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Bringing War Criminals to Justice in Sierra Leone
In 1991, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) began a bloody insurgency against the government of Sierra Leone. The resulting conflict lasted 11 years and caused more than a third of the population to flee; thousands more were killed by guerillas or had limbs forcefully amputated by machete. In the wake of the crisis, the U.N….
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Jewish Confederates and Jewish Yankees
Almost 150 years after shots rang out at Fort Sumter, the United States has yet to fully recover from the brutalities of the Civil War. The conflict ripped families apart along regional lines, and pummeled the economy and infrastructure of many Southern cities into such disrepair that many are still working on their reconstruction. When…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Lou Reed’s ‘Red Sheep’
For those accustomed to seeing Lou Reed as the snarling badass of the New York music scene, his first directorial effort, “Red Shirley,” will come as something of a shock. Far from touching on the trademark obsessions of his Velvet Underground days — sadomasochism and drugs, to be precise — the film is a loving,…
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