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Playing the Gold Standards

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The Love-Hate Relationship With Leftovers

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Saving the Jewish Creators of Superman

Music

Birthday Bash: Come Blow Out the Candles With Rami Kleinstein

By:

Michael Elkin

Recording star Rami Kleinstein made the move from his native New York at age 8 in 1970 to the desert storm that was the Mideast at a time when things, according to Dylan, were a'changin'. "I grew up influenced by the Beatles, a time of flowers in your hair -- and you take that with you," he says. Kleinstein's take...

Books

Joyously Unstructured

Frank Gehry's architectural drawings are a world unto themselves

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Robert Leiter

I remember clearly what it felt like back in 2001 to walk into the Guggenheim Museum to see the massive Frank Gehry exhibition housed there. It was the most extensive retrospective of his work till then, and it was being held in the most perfect venue, as many critics had pointed out, since Gehry (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg in 1929)...

Food

Something Peachy on the Square

There's a bit more than just spring in the air these days. Opening a new branch this week in Glen Mills, Delaware County, is the Fresh Market, a gourmet food store that carries a number of kosher products, including challah and the company's own brand of kosher coffees. They also shared these recipes, which are ripe for the season. Replace...

Theater

Good Morning, Starshine!

'Hair' today ... and a columnist's nonpharmacological trip down memory lane

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Michael Elkin

You ask me why I'm just a hairy guy. Go ahead. Ask me. Oh, that picture -- an old photo from my college days in the 1960s, when I had long beautiful hair: shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen. Now it's more "Grey Gardens" than straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded, braided powdered,...

Film & Television

Rooms With a Viewpoint

By:

Michael Elkin

Flying the coop? Their souls soared creating it. "It" was the Alberton Cooperative Apartments -- better known as "The Coops" -- a Bronx-built bastion of forward-thinking complexes that never looked back on its way to a social -- and Socialist -- utopia. Moscow on the brink at the Bronx? Filmmaker Michal Goldman feels at home focusing on the Depression-era haven...