Archive for April, 2007
The Next Conversation
By Tom Teicholz at 27 April, 2007, 12:12 pm
Can a conversation inspire a city? A people?
Nextbook, an organization devoted to Jewish literature, culture and ideas (www.nextbook.org) came to L.A. last weekend, staging a full day festival at UCLA’s MacGowan and Freud theaters called “Acting Jewish: Film, TV, Comedy, Music,” the first of what it hopes to be an annual event.
According to Nextbook Director [...]
Conversation with David Mamet
By Tom Teicholz at 13 April, 2007, 11:03 am
David Mamet in conversation with Tom Teicholz
http://www.nextbook.org/festivals/la.html#
The conversation took place on the stage of the Freud Playhouse at UCLA at 11AM on April 22nd, 2007 and lasts about an hour. The Nextbook festival of ideas link above will also lead you to video and podcasts of all the other panels from the Nextbook festival [...]
‘Rebel with a Cause’ (Andrew Stevens)
By Tom Teicholz at 13 April, 2007, 10:54 am
Andrew Stevens, a longtime Beverly Hills resident, successful businessman, active philanthropist and Hungarian Holocaust survivor, is hard to resist. He’s in his late 70s but looks 15 years younger — not because of his hair, which is darker than nature permits, but because of his energy, drive and determination. He has a quality I find [...]
Read More >>Treasures of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
By Tom Teicholz at 1 April, 2007, 3:29 pm
Can you tell the story of a people by its music?
Last November, the classical music label Naxos released the 50th CD of its American Classics series, music from the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, so the time has come to give the archive its props (just imagine Randy Jackson saying: Yo! Yo! Dog, check [...]