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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Beaten And Marked With Swastika In ‘Antifa’ Music Video
A graphic new music video from a heavy metal band depicts anti-fascist (‘antifa’) activists tracking and abducting a neo-Nazi. The band Stray From The Path released the single, “Goodnight Alt Right,” on Wednesday to promote its upcoming album, “Only Death Is Real.” “If you preach hate, then expect hate,” the song goes. “What makes you…
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Fast Forward Radiohead Frontman Releases Statement Condemning BDS
Thom Yorke, frontman of the groundbreaking rock group Radiohead, slammed the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on Tuesday in a tweet. Yorke’s statement came in response to a tweet from Ken Loach, a British journalist who has repeatedly called for a cultural boycott of Israel. “Playing in a country isn’t the same as endorsing its…
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Fast Forward Musicologist Richard Taruskin Wins Japanese ‘Nobel’
(JTA) — Musicologist Dr. Richard Taruskin has been awarded a 2017 Kyoto Prize, the Japanese Nobel. Taruskin, a University of California, Berkeley professor emeritus, is the author of the six-volume The Oxford History of Western Music (2004). In a much-talked-about essay in 1989, he described composer Igor Stravinsky’s fascist and anti-Semitic tendencies in the 1930s, and…
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Fast Forward Chuck Schumer Found The Strength To Resist Trump From A Shirelles Song
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was despondent in the days after the presidential election, he admitted in an interview with Buzzfeed on Saturday. But he found solace and the strength to continue fighting for his beliefs from an unlikely source. “I was totally down in the dumps for three days [after the election], as was…
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Fast Forward Bob Dylan Will Finally Pick Up His Nobel Prize In Stockholm
(JTA) — American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will receive his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. The Swedish Academy will hand over his Nobel diploma and Nobel medial in a “small and intimate” setting and no media will be present, Sara Danius, secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Wednesday in a blogpost. Dylan is scheduled to…
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Culture Ever Wonder Who Your Favorite Artist Was Reading? Now You Can Find Out
Have you ever wanted to know what your favorite author was listening to? What your favorite musician was reading? What your favorite chef considered to be a luxury item? Well, now you find out thanks to an archival project by the BBC. The network has recently digitized the entire catalogue of the Desert Island Discs…
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Culture Where Are All The Tu B’Shvat Songs?
Many Jewish holidays have inspired the people of the book to drop tomes and pick up instruments. And, in the age of YouTube, there’s plenty of evidence for the success of that substitution. And, since Tu B’Shvat — a kind of Jewish Arbor Day — celebrates the rebirth of the natural world, it should be…
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Food Meet the Jewish Punk Bands That Throw Gefilte Fish, Bagels and Hummus
Bagels, gefilte fish, Manischewitz, and other Jewish foods were used — and thrown — at Jewish punk concerts. In the early 1990s, Gefilte F*ck singer Howard Hallis would take the stage clutching a bottle of Manischewitz wine. The Los Angeles band threw matzo, chocolate gelt and even its eponym at concertgoers. At one raucous show,…
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