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A 'Magic' Premiere Fulfills Cheltenham Teen's Dying Wish

Arts

Opening Barnes’ Doors

Music

Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

Film & Television

Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

Food

Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

Music

David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

Film & Television

Vampires With Jewish Bloodlines?

'Twilight's' next gleaming may not tell the whole story

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Michael Elkin

Hollywood ... bloodsuckers. Who knew? Roget's Thesaurus would. But then, go figure that Hollywood would borrow journalism's historic axiom and run with it: "If it bleeds, it leads." It certainly does at the box office. Which brings us to "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," the howl of a hit follow-up to the start of the saga, based on Stephenie Meyer's...

Arts

Penn Museum: You Can Get Ur From There

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Rita Rosen Poley, JE Feature

During the 1920s and '30s, the frontier of discovery was found in the dusty fields and dug pits of archaeological expeditions. In 1922, Howard Carter's find of Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings gripped the public, and archaeologists soon became media darlings. Contemporary news reports provided vivid pictures of life on excavations and fantastic glimpses of the culture,...

Health

Is It Always Mom's Fault?A Daughter Responds

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Rita Charleston, JE Feature

"If you also see your mother when you look in the mirror, you are not alone," says Laura Arens Fuerstein, author of My Mother, My Mirror: Recognizing and Making the Most of Inherited Self-Images. Fuerstein, an analytic therapist with more than 30 years of clinical experience, explores a mother's influence on her daughter without blaming Mom. "This book does not...

Food

About Shooting 'The Messenger'

Israeli director moves into new role with wartime messages lived and learned

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Michael Elkin

"I'm not there," the two military men seem to say as they morbidly grapple with guarding the precious, if onerous, cargo they cart back home -- news that the wife/mother they greet as the door opens has had her soldier spouse/son/daughter die in combat. As attendants to the Army's Casualty Notification service, the soldiers seem like casualties themselves, dissociated from...

Theater

Nifty-50s? Only Time Will Tell

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Michael Elkin

Covering the spread means more of a challenge when what you're tackling is not middle linebackers but middle age. After all, if the Eagles think it's tough and rough dealing with boo-birds, try boomers and empty-nest syndrome. Carole Lonner has. And her middle ages romp is no Renaissance fare: "The Kids Left. The Dog Died. Now What?" is a musically...