Culture

The Love-Hate Relationship With Leftovers

Saving the Jewish Creators of Superman

Eva Hesse must be placed on that ever-burgeoning list of crucially influential artists unknown to the majority of the general public. One reason for this unfortunate development may be that she died very young of a brain tumor nearly 40 years ago, when she was at her most productive and beginning to make a name for herself as one of...

Food

Life After Latkes (At Least, for Some)

By:

Louise Fiszer, JE Feature

Confessions of a latke lover: There was a time that whenever we added a candle to the menorah during Chanukah, my secret yearning loomed large and lasciviously -- the desire to have hot, fresh, crisp latkes on my plate at the same time that everyone at the table has theirs. Sometimes, I would imagine my aspiring latke consumers refusing their...

Food

On Olives, Olive Oil and Chanukah

By:

Rivka Tal, JE Feature

Sizzling latkes, jelly-filled doughnuts, beignets, fritters, crullers -- the tantalizing frying fragrance of Chanukah is in the air! Almost everyone knows the story of the High Priest finding a small cruet of olive oil to light the Temple menorah -- that tiny jug that wound up lasting for eight days. To commemorate the miracles of "the few over the many,"...

Arts

Geritolooza? Young@Heart Raps

By:

Michael Elkin

Music as medicine? Take two Axl Roses and call me in the morning. That seems to be the prescription for Young@Heart , the ageless oldies but goodies who have taken punk rock over a rocking chair as their vehicle of choice. This choice group of 73-years-old-plus players gets a chance to rock and roil the region this time out --...

Film & Television

His Reality? Hits at Home and in Hollywood

By:

Michael Elkin

But what happens when they make others do just that? They get a reality series. H-e-l-l-o, Omarosa! And h-e-l-l-o, Bob Horowitz. The Bucks stops here ... and begins here, too: Doylestown's Bob Horowitz has a commuter's commitment that extends beyond any SEPTA zone -- and his train of thought is more on schedule, too. The Bucks County media entrepreneur doesn't...