Sam Bromer
By Sam Bromer
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Culture Newsweek Has An Impressive History Of Investigative Journalism. What About Its Future?
Newsweek’s editorial future was thrown into chaos on February 6, when the publication fired two top editors and two senior reporters. In the aftermath of the firings, several members of the editorial staff of Newsweek and the International Business Times, which shares Newsweek’s publisher, resigned in protest. An anonymous Newsweek staffer told Buzzfeed that the…
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The Schmooze Movie News: Gilda Radner, SXSW, ‘Star Wars’ And Chantal Akerman
Do you bring your own thermos to work, or do you borrow coffee mugs from the kitchen? I — ahem — have just purchased a new thermos, and let me tell you: There is no greater thrill than wandering your office with your head held high, knowing you’re better than the plebeians who lack the…
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The Schmooze Marijuana, Transgender Troops And Threesomes: Films To Look Forward To At SXSW 2018
Each year, Austin, Texas strains its infrastructure and its AirBNB capacity to host South by Southwest (SXSW), a gargantuan mix of trendy conferences and festivals focused on film, music and interactive media. In 2017, the event attracted over 70,000 attendees. On January 30, the festival unveiled its 2018 film festival lineup. Here are the choicest…
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Culture Rachel Kadish Wins Association Of Jewish Libraries’ Inaugural Fiction Award
On Tuesday, the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) announced Rachel Kadish as the winner of its first-ever Jewish Fiction Award. Her novel, “The Weight of Ink,” was chosen from a list of 50 works of fiction with “significant Jewish thematic content,” according to an AJL blog post. Ruth Gilligan’s “Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan”…
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The Schmooze Movie News: A Spielberg-Kushner ‘West Side Story,’ A Second ‘Passion Of The Christ’
Movie news is well and good, but seems to pale in the wake of the most fascinating developments from late last week: The Nutella riots in France. According to a January 26 report from the BBC, after Intermarché supermarkets across France began offering a substantial discount on the chocolate hazelnut spread, people began to battle…
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