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Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

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Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

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Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

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David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

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The 'Turning Point'

Not the movie, exactly, but the moment of truth for two filmmakers

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Robert Leiter

From a young age, I was a movie nut, watching whatever was on TV -- slashed to bits, I learned later, to accommodate commercials -- while also attending the neighborhood cinema at least once each week. Movie-going intensified in my teens as I added uncut Hollywood classics and European art films that were being shown at the revival houses that...

Food

Totally Tail-Gating

What else to do with a car full of sports fans?

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Eileen Goltz, JE Feature

It seems appropriate that as football season gets into full swing, we celebrate by eating the quintessential tail-gate food: the "hero" sandwich. At its most basic, a hero -- or hoagie, as it's called in these parts -- is a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll, split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion...

Food

'Top Chef' Judge Serves Up 'Just Desserts'

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Devra Ferst, The Forward

Every reality competition with judges has a "mean one": Simon Cowell's scathing remarks made plenty of "American Idol" contestants cry. For the first couple of seasons of "Top Chef," the Emmy Award-winning Bravo TV series now in its seventh season, that judge was Gail Simmons. But behind the scenes, the vivacious and fast-talking Simmons -- who tap dances for the...

Theater

'Tis the Seasons

Peek at Valli: Writer Marshall Brickman arrives in Philly as a big man in town

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Michael Elkin

Walk like a mensch? Marshall Brickman has the steps down pat. Brazilian-born Brickman and poker-playing buddy Rick Elice are the Jewish boys/book writers behind "Jersey Boys," the Garden State of mind musical which has minted a quartet of Tonys -- and a guy named Frankie -- in its terrific telling of the Four Seasons story (vivacious in ways Vivaldi couldn't...

Arts

Sukkot to Me!

Juggling holiday and hilarity

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Michael Elkin

What better time than this to go for the juggler? After all, Sukkot and juggling go together like meat axes, and peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches. At least they do when the Flying Karamazov Brothers get their hands on them. Give a hand to Paul Magid and his magical merry pranksters, who juggle holidays and hilarity in an act that does justice to...