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The Schmooze Preserving Indie Moments
Crossposted from Haaretz At the site of the festival there were billboards proclaiming “Indiemoment,” urging the thousands present to photograph what they were doing and what was going on around them at the same exact, predetermined times: 3:53 a.m. and 3:53 p.m. After the In-D-Negev Festival 2011 last week, the photos were sent to a…
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The Schmooze Monday Music: Sounds of the Fathers
At first, I didn’t know how to listen to “The Pirkei Avot Project, Vol. 1.” Taking eight short excerpts from Pirkei Avot, a compendium of rabbinical aphorisms, jazz guitarist Amanda Monaco creates a wise and playful interpretation of some serious material. She uses popular passages, such as Hillel’s saying, “If I am not for me,…
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The Schmooze Auschwitz Opera in London
Crossposted from Haaretz The hall of the London Coliseum theater in the West End was packed. A few minutes before the English National Opera was due to begin its evening performance, a varied audience had taken its seats in the elegant hall. In addition to the smartly dressed opera buffs were quite a number of…
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Music Singing Across Israel for Women’s Dignity
Good news — Israeli women are fighting back against those who would hide and silence them. Recent developments for women in Israel have been worrisome and depressing, as readers of this blog are well aware. There has been increasing gender separation on buses and on public streets, harassment of young Beit Shemesh girls whose only…
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Music ‘Wild Flag’ Jewesses Keep Rockin’ Hard
I recently went down to the Bowery Ballroom to see the rock band Wild Flag perform. They’re a fairly new all-female rock group consisting of two of Sleater-Kinney’s Jewish former members, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, and two other pioneering female rockers, Rebecca Cole and Mary Timony. I’d been listening to their new album, “Wild…
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The Schmooze Israel’s Woodstock in the Desert
Crossposted from Haaretz The fifth annual inDnegev music festival at Mitzpeh Gvulot starts this Thursday and continues throughout the weekend. With the exception of the first inDnegev, tickets for the festival sell out well before the gates open, and this year 3,500 are expected to attend. The festival organizers — friends and Negev residents Matan…
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The Schmooze Monday Music: Orthodox Hipster Hip-Hop at CMJ
“So you’re the only non-Jewish artist on Shemspeed?” “I would say so,” says TJ Di Hitmaker. TJ’s just finished his set at Littlefield and he’s losing his voice. Right now he sounds Tom Waits-level raspy. “I met up with DeScribe, he was telling me he raps. I told him I’m a dancehall artist, he put…
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The Schmooze Musical Fast Food From Sweden
Crossposted From Haaretz Wow, so many people. It’s been years since there were so many, streaming into the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds. The parking lot was packed; the line for the bathrooms was endless. The Roxette concert last Saturday night was moved from the pavilion, with a capacity of 5,000, to the adjacent lawn, which can…
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