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Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Everything
What do Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, and Ocote Soul Sounds have in common? Prince, Maceo Parker, and Larry Harlow!
"...on the biggest night of the biggest festival, the JewMex horns surveyed a sea of more than 50,000 in..."

June 13, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Salute Your Undershorts
The secret Hollywood history behind No Pants Day
"...creation had been circumcised and was, therefore, possibly a Jew...."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Letters @ 3AM
Globalization isn't only something that's happening to our economy: Globalization is happening to us – to our bodies, our families, and our psyches
"...harbored the odd Chinese- or Japanese-American and the rare Jew (also with no speaking parts); Harlem's Rep. Adam Clayton..."

April 25, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

The Counterfeiters
Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this brisk Austrian film uncovers the moral choices faced by WWII concentration-camp victims selected to work on the Nazi effort to create bogus currency.
"...Foreign Film. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch (Markovics) is a Russian Jew in Germany before the Second World War who puts..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
This Brazilian film is set against the twinned, opposing backdrops of the explosive 1970 World Cup and the human toll of the country's brutal military dictatorship.
"..."outsider" religious overtones (in this case São Paulo's Orthodox Jewish community) and a small but deadly dose of uneasy..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...doc reveals Ellison's wonderland to be less "crotchety old Jew"-ville than that of a profoundly engaged and hopelessly romantic..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Band's Visit
A lost band of Egyptian musicians from a police orchestra find refuge with some Israeli townspeople.
"...of wrong chess moves away from outright antagonism. But Jewish cafe owner Dina (Elkabetz) isn’t interested in politics or..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tradition in Transition
Previewing the Austin Jewish Film Festival
"...and passing of the 20th century, which saw the Jewish people live through the depths of deprivation in Europe,..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two: Die Another Day
On renewal, 'Red Cavalry,' and the joys of creating, despite the hostile storms and vicious seas
"...the bloody Russian Civil War. A bookish, literary Odessa Jew riding with the notoriously violent and ruthless Cossacks would..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Letters @ 3AM
Americans no longer look or sound like, and will never again look or sound like, this country's rigid image of an "American"
"...his guts and feared for his safety. The only Jew I was aware of was the Long Island-born friend..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Jewish Book Fair
Nov. 3-11
"...Dell Jewish Community Center..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Books Feature

The Master Builder
The impeccable craft and enduring genius of Arthur Miller, as explained by Tony Kushner
"...why he could write The Crucible. He was a Jew from Brooklyn, but he got that New England [sensibility],..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Heartbreak Kid
Ben Stiller stars in this smart and winning remake of a 1972 Neil Simon-penned comedy about a man who falls in love with another woman on his honeymoon.
"...hasty so often. The younger Stiller varies his hapless Jew schtick just enough to make Eddie a wholly believable..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sha-booyah ROLL CALL!
Meet our new blogger, Andy Campy!
"...brownish brown, chai not coffee, expanded cable, queer feminist, Jew-ish, Bjork, and never in my life! Grody!..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

'Les Enfants Terribles'
"...widowed the day after her betrothal to a rich Jew ("Elisabeth hadn't married him for his money, nor for..."

July 27, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Arab Star
Texas journalist Aziz Shihab on Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
"...home in Jerusalem in the 1949 war (displaced by Jewish emigrants from Brooklyn) and whether as a visitor he..."

July 20, 2007 Books Feature by Michael King

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...much opportunity for insight into the complexities of the Jewish Orthodox culture in South Brooklyn. As a result, the..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

Perfect Liberty
To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound
"...onto Walkmans and answering machines under the name Silver Jews, Berman and Malkmus took rock music to new heights..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two: Let's Get Lost
An invocation on the eve of South by Southwest
"...Arranged: Two young women – one an Orthodox Jew, the other Muslim – meet and become friends as..."

March 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Looking More Closely When Others Look Away
On directors examining structure, storytelling, and how pictures can move us
"...odyssey," not least because neither he nor Crespo is Jewish or Muslim, the two faiths at the heart of..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Starter for 10
This British coming-of-age drama and romantic comedy is fairly predictable, although the charming actors manage to keep the story’s characters just this side of stereotype and mediocrity.
"...toys with Brian’s affections; Rebecca (Hall) is a brunette Jew, whose political passions keep her dashing from demonstration to..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hour Has 22 Minutes
Pop quiz on Canada, with a SXSW 07 musical cheat sheet
"...party people (see "Crazy Canucks," above), "the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture," Chromeo, gets..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
"...screenwriting how-tos. Topics include the ascension of the Ashkenazi Jew to the top of the Hollywood food chain and..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Essential Man-Thing: Vol. 1 and Showcase Presents: The Unknown Soldier
No nostalgia: discovery and rediscovery
"...April 19, 1943. To rescue a woman who smuggled Jews out of Nazi-occupied territory, the Unknown Soldier, posing as..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Liveblogging the Lege Opening
"...three minutes of your life. Now he's quoting renowned Jew hater Henry Ford. Appointment of temporary officers and more..."

Jan. 9, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Page Two: Red-State Specials
In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate
"...international bankers, those damn Democrats, the Trilateral Commission, the Marxist-Jewish conspiracy, manipulative secret leaders of the New World Order..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Apocalypto
The ever-astonishing filmmaker Mel Gibson continues his (probably unintentional) study of the mortification of the flesh through the ages.
"...will prove more revealing than any scrutiny for sexism, Jew-baiting, and whatnot. Only now, after the graphic displays of..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Understanding Islam
Steve Moore's latest play makes a pilgrimage to the truth of a misunderstood faith
"...on a murder in 1913 Atlanta for which a Jew was unjustly convicted and ultimately lynched...."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 23rd Austin Jewish Book Fair
Thursday, Nov. 2, through Nov. 12
"...Events take place at the Jewish Community Association of Austin Hall (7300 Hart, Dell Jewish..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Books Feature

Parade
'Parade' is an ambitious musical for a university theatre department, but the entire company presenting it at St. Edward's is impressively in tune with Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's retelling of the Leo Frank case
"...others – but he's also an outsider: a Brooklyn Jew in an Old South still stinging from its humiliating..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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