Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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The Schmooze Streisand To Spearhead Ground Zero Performing Arts Center
In 2003, when architect Daniel Libeskind created a plan for the redevelopment of Ground Zero, he included a performing arts center. That project has been one of the few unrealized in the site’s redevelopment, but it won’t remain so for long. On Thursday, officials revealed a new plan for the center, which they hope will…
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Culture On 15th Anniversary Of 9/11, Sculptor Shows City In Mourning
'I think when anyone ever grieves or thinks they think in their own vocabulary'
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The Schmooze Barbra Streisand Tops The Charts — Again
Barbra Streisand has done it again: her new album “Encores: Movie Partners Sing Broadway,” debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart. The album, released on August 26th, is Streisand’s 11th to take the number 1 slot. It also makes her the only artist to have had number 1 albums in each of the…
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Culture How Facebook Live Helps Michael Hirsch Remember the Triangle Fire
Watching a visit to a cemetery streamed on Facebook Live might not sound like the most engrossing of afternoons, but in the hands of photographer, journalist, and historical researcher Michael Hirsch, it’s a rarely interesting occupation. On a recent late-August Tuesday, Hirsch wasn’t visiting just any cemetery. He was making a pilgrimage to see some…
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Culture Does Jonathan Safran Foer Matter?
Six years ago, when I was 17 years old and a month into college at Washington University in St. Louis, I met Jonathan Safran Foer. I didn’t know he was speaking on my campus until the day of the event, and I reacted with a kind of seismic glee specific to small events of seemingly…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Amy Schumer Takes Down Stockholm Hater
Amy Schumer sure knows how to take down a misogynist hater when she sees one. The comedian, writer and actress was two minutes into a performance in Stockholm last night when a heckler shouted “show us your tits!” Schumer responded in top form, pausing her act to focus in on the heckler. She interrogated him…
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The Schmooze Thanks, Vice. But Israel’s Female Soldiers Aren’t Just Pretty Faces.
Thank goodness for Vice, purveyor of useful information. After all, if it weren’t for their recent publication of Mayan Toledano’s photographs of Israeli women in the IDF, we’d have absolutely no idea that a woman continuing to be, well, a woman while in the army was actually an act of protest. Toledano is an Israeli-born,…
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The Schmooze “War Paint” Starring Patti Lupone Nominated For Top Chicago Theater Awards
The new musical “War Paint,” which tells the story of the 20th-century makeup mavens Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, has been nominated for five of Chicago’s Equity Jeff Awards, the region’s top theatrical awards. The musical, which closed at the Goodman Theater on August 21st, starred Christine Ebersole as Arden and Patti LuPone as Rubinstein….
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