If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Auschwitz: On Jerry Stahl’s “Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust”

Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the HolocaustONE TIME, AT A friend’s 50th birthday party, I appeared in a black unitard and heels, cued up the music, and performed Beyoncé’s dance to “Single Ladies.” I did the bit because I knew it was foolproof: just the […]

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Meet Anne Litt, KCRW’s New Music Director

Longtime KCRW DJ Anne Litt has just been named the station’s new music director (or program director of music, as her official title will read). She’s the first woman to lead the beloved local tastemaker music station, which has a national reputation for breaking new music. Litt’s been on air at KCRW since 1996, and […]

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Astana Days: Kazakhstan’s Excellent Financial Adventure

During the first week of July, Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, celebrated its 20th Anniversary and officially launched the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC), a bold plan to make this city of 1 Million people in a landlocked country of some 18 million citizens, the financial hub of Central Asia and a destination for European, […]

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Who Killed Orchestral Music?

JOHN MAUCERI, founding director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, is a composer, arranger, writer, and educator who has conducted the world’s major opera companies and symphony orchestras. For 18 years, Mauceri worked closely with Leonard Bernstein on many of Bernstein’s premieres. He has championed the work of composers banned by Hitler, in particular those who […]

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When a “City Without Jews” Was a Comedy

Wilshire Boulevard Temple will host a special screening of the Los Angeles premiere of “The City Without Jews,” a long-lost, recently restored 1924 Austrian silent film, featuring live accompaniment on the temple’s magnificent, 4,102-pipe Korn Kimball organ.This film could not be more timely (alas). The increase of anti-Semitic incidents in England, France, Hungary and Poland […]

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A Journey to Being: On Seth Greenland’s “A Kingdom of Tender Colors”

A MAN WALKS INTO a doctor’s office. And it’s no joke. He’s 37, seemingly in robust health, happily married, with one child and another on the way. The doctor finds that his lymph glands are swollen in a way that is troubling, and a few weeks later, the man is diagnosed as having lymphoma. Cancer. […]

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