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Big Fun Under the Big Top
with additional reporting by Natasha Teicholz When I heard that the circus was coming to town, I couldn’t wait to take my daughter. I’m talking about the Greatest Show on Earth, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, appearing in Orange County until Aug. 5. I know that Cirque du Soleil has its fans — […]
GOOD AS (Jonathan) GOLD
“The plov is great.” Jonathan Gold, the LA Weekly’s restaurant critic and the 2007 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, e-mailed me the above about Uzbekistan (the restaurant on La Brea, not the country), where we were planning to meet. He assumed, of course, that I knew what plov is — I didn’t then, […]
Conversations with David Mamet and Nathan Englander
Conversations with David Mamet and Nathan Englander: DAVID MAMET As part of the Nextbook Festival of ideas, held at UCLA on April 22nd, I interviewed Pulitzer prize winning playwright, screenwriter, novelist and essayist David Mamet. Nextbook had chosen the title of “Make Believe Jews” for our conversation and I took that to mean a conversation […]
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Conversation with Nathan Englander
NATHAN ENGLANDER About a month later, on May 21, 2007, I found myself on the stage of the Mark Taper auditorium at the Los Angeles Central Public Library, as part of the ALOUD series, in conversation with Nathan Englander whose new novel, “The Ministry of Special Cases” (Knopf) had recently been published. Englander is also […]
Bruce Teicholz, my father, always said he wasn't a hero.
To see the article as featured in the Jewish Journal, click on: For the cover: http://tommywood.com/cover.pdf For the article, with photos http://tommywood.com/JJcoverarticle.pdf He left his mark fighting in the Shoah, spearheading postwar relief efforts, aiding migration to Palestine – and on me My father always said he wasn’t a hero. “All the heroes are dead,” […]
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The Salonistas of LA
Great ideas and great literature are being championed, promoted and supported in Los Angeles, in public and private forums, in private homes and public spaces, through the age-old medium of conversation. Several years ago, the Jewish Museum in New York mounted an exhibition called “The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons.” Focusing on […]