Out and About: The Trials of Leonard Slatkin; New Ending for West Memphis Three
Courtesy of Music Box Films
By Ezra Glinter August 22, 2011
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Sara Ivry talks to comic book artist Joann Sfar, diretor of a new film about French Jewish songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.
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Leonard Slatkin has suffered a heart attack, been fired from the Metropolitan Opera and had the Detroit Symphony Orchestra go on strike, but the Los Angeles conductor keeps on trucking.
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“Paradise Lost: Purgatory,” a documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the West Memphis Three, is getting a new ending after the wrongfully convicted men were set free.
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Shtetl on the Shortwave visits KlezKanada.
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Michael Wex takes note of the recent rash of chutzpah sightings.
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The New Republic unearths a 1945 review by Saul Bellow of “Song of the Dnieper” by Zalman Shneour.
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A Polish singer charged with offending religious sentiments for tearing up a Bible on stage has been found not guilty.
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