Category: Arts & Culture

Editor’s note: Since this piece was published, director and playwright Charles Waxberg, who had joined the company as artistic director, has sin

Funny, I took the CD New Shabbos Waltz, David Grisman and Andy Statman’s sequel to their Songs of Our Fathers, for a "Jewish" album, but the di

After Amy Levy’s suicide in 1888, Oscar Wilde wrote the following about her novel, Reuben Sachs: "Its directness, its uncompromising truth, its

"I haven’t seen people in Seattle this excited about anything," says my date to the new Mel Brooks Broadway musical Young Frankenstein, which h

Helen Weber wanted to know how — "how Germany and the other countries did what they did" in the Jewish extermination campaign, Operation Reinhard and

Balkan Beat Box, Nu Med, JDub Records Many years ago, a Hebrew school teacher explained that while the United States was a melting pot, in which peopl

Since 1994, Michelle Goodman has been thumbing her nose at people who tell her to get a job. Now the Seattle-based writer and editor has become an eva

At first blush, the idea of a musical about a Nazi-controlled Jewish ghetto sounds like something out of an early draft of Mel Brooks’ The Produ

Crazy Love It’s often said that real life is stranger than fiction. The stunning documentary Crazy Love is proof of that adage. In New York Cit

A simple Sunday-school song born in Seattle, "I Have a Little Dreidel," barely begins to spin the big story of its composer, Samuel E. Goldfarb. Gol

Marc Salem can "read" the serial numbers on a bill in your wallet, stop his own pulse and guess a word you’ve picked from a book. Striding abou

"We’re making history," says Music of Remembrance Artistic Director Mina Miller. For its spring 2007 concert, called "Forbidden!" Music of Re

An exhibition running at the Bellevue Arts Museum through June 17 is a comprehensive study of Israeli contemporary jewelry, with a focus on the career