Category: Arts News

The music director of southwest Washington’s Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is also the principal guest conductor of Israel’s Raanana Sympho

On his way to becoming a perennial All-Star in the mid-1950s, Cleveland Indians clean-up hitter Al Rosen received more than his share of barbs from op

"I’ll change that!" Cantor David Serkin-Poole calls out, pointing to Isaac Azose during rehearsal on Feb. 2, then getting right back to the mus

Her own journey of spirit By Ann Coppel Debbie believed that singing was life giving. She loved people singing with her, participating. Singing is how

First the bad news: Book Lust is finished. Now the good news: Nancy Pearl, the creator of the series of books that helps hungry readers find the righ

"Even after 70 years, I still remember how to make my own developer," says Faye Schulman. During the three years she lived in the woods, fighting the

The end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will happen as a result of the everyday efforts of ordinary people, not the proclamations of politicians,

Without doubt, Andy Statman is the creator of a uniquely American fusion music — call it jazz, spiritual, multicultural, or whatever. For the first ti

We’ve been getting some pretty good music in the mail these days, so we’ve given a few a listen so you can post them on the tunes section

By Arthur Wolak, Special to JTNews

It took seven years for Yann Martel to write his most recent book, Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel (Spiegel & Grau, 2010). The story began as a two-act p

By Eric Nusbaum, Assistant Editor, JTNews

Mark Richard Schuster did not set out to become an author. But after the Seattle entrepreneur completed development on Mosler Lofts, the Belltown cond

By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent

I was delighted to receive a review copy of Scott Simon’s Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption (Random House, cloth, $22),