There is something for everyone in the saga of Harry Houdini, the Budapest-born, Appleton, Wisconsin-raised obsessed son of a Rabbi. [...]
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3 March 2011  Houdini: Art and Magic at the Skirball Center opening in April traces magician and escape artist Harry Houdini’s evolution from fledgling circus performer in the 1890s, to stage magician at the turn of the twentieth century, to star of stage and film. [...] 2 August 2010  Actress Julie Garfield remembers her father John Garfield in a curtain talk following the screening of “Body and Soul” (1947, dir. Robert Rossen, d.p., James Wong Howe, screenplay Abraham Polansky. [...] 25 July 2010  “We didn’t know if they were after Communists, Jews, or just short people.” So said Mel Brooks about the black list in an inimitable in-person appearance with longtime colleague Carl Reiner at the Egyptian Theater Friday night. [...] 5 June 2010 artsmeme enjoyed Josh Kun’s “Get Down, Moses” listening party at the Skirball Center in tandem with the Jews on Vinyl exhibit. [...] 20 April 2010  The grand opening of Haim Saban’s SABAN theatre in Los Angeles last night featured a rocking variety show and wonderful showcase of Barak Marshall’s “MONGER” on dance troupe BodyTraffic. [...] 23 February 2010  Pacific Serenades debuts a chamber work by Israeli born composer Sharon Farber on March 6, 2010. [...] 9 January 2010 “Hitler’s Emigres and Exiles in Southern California,” a new book by Dorothy Lamb Crawford, has multiple events in Los Angeles [...] 3 December 2009  From humble, hard-working background beginnings in Los Angeles, innovative musician/entrepreneur Herb Alpert has become a premiere American arts patron, doling out generous grants to artists both at start-up stage and at mid-career. [...] 19 November 2009  Jewish guys are not wimps — never have been. This according to shtetl shpecialist Yale Strom, a San Diego-based documentary filmmaker/photographer, leading ethnographer of klezmer music, and an unbelievably talented klezmer violinist who has taken more than sixty cultural research trips to preserve central European yiddishkeit. In a talk at the Yiddish Cultural Institute, [...] | |||
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