Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Moscow 57 Is Cooking at Last
The sweet taste of dessert, properly cooked. Photographs courtesy of Moscow 57. Call it the Russian Iced Tea Room. For nearly eight months, Ellen Kaye and her partners struggled to run Moscow 57 — their jewel box of a restaurant on Manhattan’s Lower East Side — without gas service. Instead of the original menu inspired…
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The Schmooze A Year for Women in Comics
Jewish women have been pushing boundaries of comics for years, but 2014 proved an especially rich year for smart, challenging work from supremely talented artists. Some confront personal history. Last year, in “Letting it Go,” Miriam Katin beautifully captured her own ambivalence about visiting Germany — and the double edge every place holds for her…
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Food Are Gingerbread Houses for Jews Too?
Is the world ready for Hanukkah gingerbread houses?
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Books AIDS Crisis Through a Comics Lens
Joyce Brabner/Mark Zingarelli “Joyce Brabner, best known as Harvey Pekar’s widow and collaborator, has released a graphic novel about early efforts in a New York gay community to fight the AIDS epidemic.” So began a recent Cleveland Plain-Dealer review of “Second Avenue Caper” (Hill & Wang, $22), a deeply moving and bitingly funny new graphic…
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Food Latkepalooza: Philly’s Potato-Pancake Smackdown
Photograph courtesy of Abe Fisher. Leeks and feta cheese. Cajun seasonings. Black garlic jam and pickled apples. These are latkes? Welcome to Latkepalooza, the annual Philadelphia smackdown that challenges local chefs to reinvent the humble potato pancake. On Sunday, December 7, nine eateries across a wide swath of Philadelphia’s stellar restaurant scene will showcase recipes…
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The Schmooze 8 Best (and Worst) Mel Brooks Movies
Melvin James Kaminsky is finally getting the tribute he deserves. A monthlong retrospective at the Bell Lightbox, home of the Toronto International Film Festival, is honoring the director better known as Mel Brooks. “It’s Good to Be the King” salutes the 88-year-old’s “triumphant bad taste and transcendently-awful-cum-pricelessly-hilarious jokery,” according to program notes. Though Brooks hasn’t…
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Food Toronto’s New Schmaltz Appetizing Is Modeled on the Classics
Schmaltz Appetizing’s bagel with whitefish salad. Photographs by Caroline Aksich, Toronto Life Anthony Rose swears this was the original tagline for Schmaltz Appetizing, his new Toronto fish emporium: “We cater the beginning and the end — the bris and the shiva.” The joke is typical Rose. While the 35-year-old is dead serious about food, he…
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The Schmooze Yiddish Pop Star Claire Barry Dies at 94
Claire Barry, with her sister, Merna, on the cover of their 1961 album ‘Side by Side.’ Claire Barry, who crossed over from the world of Yiddish entertainment to global pop stardom as half of The Barry Sisters, died Monday in Aventura, Florida. She was 94. At the height of their popularity in the 1950s and…
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