PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Culture ‘The Beastie Boys Story:’ a sad, stilted epilogue from a once outrageous band
The Beastie Boys are feeling their age. In “The Beastie Boys Story,” a taped performance of the band’s non-musical stage show from 2019 available now on Apple TV+, Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) and Michael Diamond (Mike D) — the two surviving members of the legendary hip hop trio — dive into their 30-year history through anecdotes…
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Culture Need something to listen to in quarantine? Here are our podcast picks.
Podcasts were once merely the niche hipster cousins of terrestrial radio. That changed in 2014, a decade into the form’s existence, when “This American Life” debuted its offshoot podcast “Serial,” introducing mainstream audiences to both the gripping case of Adnan Syed and the vast and democratic potential of downloadable digital audio. Now, there’s a podcast…
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Culture Artist Mira Lehr on Buckminster Fuller, the environment and blowing things up
In the summer of 1969, as humanity left its first footprints on the Moon, architect, futurist and inventor Buckminster Fuller was thinking about the Earth. Gathering a team of students in New York, he staged a bold experiment in global sustainability, tapping a growing concern for the planet that would culminate one year later in…
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Culture WATCH: Homeland star Mandy Patinkin blows the shofar for Earth Day 2020
Hot off Twitter trending, “Homeland” star Mandy Patinkin is using his platform — and his considerable lung capacity — to raise awareness about climate change this Earth Day. As part of Hazon’s #SoundTheCall campaign, Patinkin blew his shofar alongside his wife, Kathryn Grody. He was one of many who joined Hazon, the largest faith-based environmental…
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Culture For Elaine May on her 88th Birthday
Elaine May began life 88 years ago, the child of traveling players in a Yiddish theater company. She grew up acting with her parents. Later years would bring bigger venues — Broadway, Hollywood, even a pioneer Amazon Prime series — but her ethic of mishpocheh followed her through her collaborative career. Sadly, as happens in…
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Culture How to remember this socially-distanced Yom HaShoah
The evening of April 20, 2020 marks the begining of Yom HaShoah, when we honor the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. This year, the ceremonies, which typically involve public gatherings with candle-lightings, have gone online only. But the project of remembering continues. Here are some ways to pay your respects. YAD VASHEM,…
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Culture ABC’s ‘The Baker and the Beauty’ is a half-baked remake
The epoch of coronavirus is a time of quarantined batch-baking and sourdough starter. Many are now learning that when it comes to baking, the rules of chemistry apply. Things can’t be rushed and from scratch is better than a mix. ABC’s latest soapy import, “The Baker and the Beauty,” should take a lesson. Working from…
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News Joseph Feingold, 97, A Survivor Who Famously Brought A Violin From Germany To The Bronx
(JTA) — NEW YORK (Forward via JTA) — Joseph Feingold, a Holocaust survivor, architect and memoirist whose gift of music brought a unique friendship to a South Bronx community died April 15 of pneumonia and COVID-19. He was 97. Jozef Fajngold was born to socialist parents on March 23, 1923, in Warsaw. His father, Aron,…
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