Mark Caro
By Mark Caro
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News Chicago music critic Howard Reich avoided writing about his family and the Holocaust until it became his calling
The moment that crystallized Howard Reich’s future in music, writing and Judaism occurred when, as a 16-year-old living in the largely Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, Ill., he found the 1951 Best-Picture winning musical “An American in Paris” showing on the family TV. George Gershwin, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, wrote the film’s music,…
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News As Chicago Jews mourn the Standard Club, some refuse to say goodbye
The announcement came in early March: The Standard Club, a nexus of Jewish life in Chicago for 150 years, would be closing its doors May 1 and its building, a 13-story, 1920s high rise designed by Detroit architect Albert Kahn, would be sold. Thanks to the coronavirus, the club didn’t last even that long. It…
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News In Chicago, two Jewish lawyers fight to make the police accountable
What now? The protests following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd have been infused with hope and fraught with danger. They could result in increased justice, or more injustice. Craig Futterman and Adam Gross, two lawyers in Chicago’s Jewish community, are trying to tip the balance toward the brighter side as they tackle the…
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News Letter from Chicago: In pandemic, Gov. Pritzker finds his moment
The upside of tough times is that you learn on whom you can count, sometimes in unanticipated ways. Those who already knew Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois may have not been surprised by his decisive, compassionate leadership during the coronavirus crisis, or by his willingness to take on President Donald Trump while seeking vital supplies,…
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Life My dad lives in a senior facility with coronavirus cases. If he can’t get tested, who can?
My 85-year-old father and residents at his suburban Chicago senior community should form an NBA team. Lottie could play power forward because when she gets that wheelchair rolling, not even LeBron can stop her. Myron, with those long, bony arms, should be the man in the middle. My dad can play point guard, because he’s…
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Film & TV After All These Years, Are These Movies Still Funny?
The first time I remember being overwhelmed with laughter in a movie theater was when Peter Sellers, as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in “The Return of the Pink Panther,” went airborne with a slow-motion karate kick that sailed over the head of sidekick Cato (Burt Kwouk), through a door and into the mayhem of crashing shelves…
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