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A 'Magic' Premiere Fulfills Cheltenham Teen's Dying Wish

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Opening Barnes’ Doors

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Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

Film & Television

Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

Food

Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

Music

David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

Film & Television

The (Really) Big and the Beautiful

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Michael Elkin

Scott L. Schwartz just may be the inverse of the Timex watch: He gives a licking and keeps on ticking. You just don't want to get him ticked off. The native Philadelphian is billed -- and built -- as "The Ultimate Bad Guy" by the Hollywood industry. His bruising brooding looks do nothing to dispel the notion that this is...

Film & Television

The Very Image of a PR Exec?

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Michael Elkin

One wag once said that the business of public relations could be defined as having sex on the sidewalk. If so, that explains why the fictional PR firm peopled by such image-pushers as Alex (Hank Azaria) and Helen (Kathryn Hahn) is a one-way street of broken hearts and loneliness -- yielding to some funny turns. Azaria is at the intersection...

Sukkot

Sukkot: From House to Hut

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Ethel Hofman, JE Feature

THE JEWISH KITCHEN Sukkot, like Thanksgiving, celebrates a bountiful harvest. The joyful biblical holiday comes right on the heels of Yom Kippur when Jews all over the world will begin to build their sukkahs. These structures are symbolic of the humble booths used by farmers for shelter and shade while harvesting crops. Another explanation is that they symbolize the portable...

Film & Television

What Would Seinfeld Watch?

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Michael Elkin

Did The Jewish Channel heed the shofar as a clarion call to start the new year with a blast in Philadelphia? So it is written -- it's right there, in the contract with Comcast -- that the national cable network known as TJC has just been wired locally for sound and sights, serving the region's Comcast digital subscribers. Must-see Jewish...

Theater

'Barrymore' Acts Out in Bristol

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Michael Elkin

Just how do you profile "The Great Profile"? Not a problem for director Jon Marans, who is doing just that in William Luce's play Barrymore , opening Oct. 13 at the Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, Pa. After all, says Marans, John Barrymore -- scion of an iconic Philadelphia theatrical family whose matinee-idol looks earned him the appellation of "The...