Out and About: Philip Glass Signs a Book Deal; Was Wagner So Bad?

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
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Woody Allen casts Rome’s real-life paparazzi as themselves.
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Washington Post music critic Anne Midgette defends Steve Reich’s controversial ‘WTC 9/11’ album cover.
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Ralph Branca’s mother was Jewish. So what?
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David P. Goldman wonders whether Wagner’s music should be banned in Israel.
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Meet Leah Caras, creator of Yaldah, a glossy teen magazine for Orthodox girls.
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Khaled Jarrar marks passports with a State of Palestine stamp of his own making. Sarah Glidden profiles him in cartoon form.
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Philip Glass is working on a memoir.
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