Out and About: Phillip Lopate on Simon Schama; New Director for the Folksbiene
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter April 28, 2011
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Essayist Phillip Lopate ponders “Scribble, Scribble, Scribble” a new miscellany by historian Simon Schama.
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Has Paul Simon been getting the attention he deserves?
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The Canadian Jewish News profiles former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler.
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Two synagogue restoration projects in Poland have won awards, one of them for “façade of the year.”
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Bryna Wasserman, artistic director of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal, is leaving that post to become the executive director of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre in New York.
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The winners of the Canadian Jewish Book Awards have been announced.
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Electric literature makes a video to go with a single sentence by New Yorker writer Ben Greenman.
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HEEB editor-in-chief Erin Hershberg tells us how much she cares.
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Ephemeral New York posts a few of Saul Leiter’s haunting street photographs.
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Composer Peter Lieberson and Phoebe Snow, singer of “Poetry Man” and numerous commercial jingles, have died.
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