Category: Arts News

You don’t usually think of your local librarian as a rock star. Nonetheless, it’s hard to find a better word to describe local book afici

Yesterday, hip-hop artist So Called released The So Called Seder, his solo debut on JDub Records. Just as with his previous outing with Klezmer fiddl

Whether it is the music of Jewish composer Bernard Herrmann heard in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America

As host of weeknight music on KING-FM (98.1), it’s been my good fortune to share, on recent Monday evenings, selections from the radio series &

Paula Heil Fisher’s feature-length documentary film Finding ElÈazar will air as part of the American Jewish Committee’s Seattle Jewish F

Tollbooth cute but trite Poor Sarabeth (Marla Sokoloff, “The Practice,” Dude, Where’s My Car?) is only trying to find her place i

Who is Bel Barrett? Is the fictional detective, star of her own series of mystery novels actually their author, Jane Isenberg, in disguise? I had t

If Seattle is the second most literate city in the United States—as a University of Wisconsin researcher reported in 2004—it’s no s

The American Jewish experience is impossible to narrow down because each of us has had a somewhat different view of it. Has your family been here for

Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism Howard Schwartz (Oxford University Press, cloth, $45) Does Judaism have a mythology? Most would say no, but

As the Seattle Jewish Film Festival gears up for its 10th anniversary of showing Jewish-interest films, the American Jewish Committee’s sister

“It seems to me the world needs this story right now,” says adapter/director Aaron Posner about the upcoming Seattle premiere of The Chos