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

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Opening Barnes’ Doors

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Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

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Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

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Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

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David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

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A Life That's Nasty, Brutish and ... Funny

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Robert Leiter

SPEAKING VOLUMES Phil Camp, the central character of Bill Scheft's third novel, Everything Hurts , published by Simon & Schuster, is grappling with a number of significant dilemmas as the narrative opens. For one thing, everything does really hurt; his body is a hotbed of pain. It's localized in his leg -- he has a pronounced limp at those times...

Food

The Big Chill Some cool soups for hot days

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Linda Morel, Jewish Exponent Feature

WHAT'S COOKING? Although it sounds like a contradiction in terms, I'm a great fan of cold soups, which are even more versatile than their steaming winter counterparts. When was the last time you heard of anyone serving piping-hot soup for breakfast or dessert? Yet ice-cold soups can be anything you want them to be. I eat frosty fruit soups at...

Arts

What Price Happiness?

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Michael Elkin

Only "$9.99" for The Meaning of Life? A bargain! But don't discount the dynamics of hurt and hope in delivering that happiness. And "$9.99" -- the amazing stop-motion animation directing debut of Israeli-born Tatia Rosenthal -- stops one in its very tracks as it traces the litmus test of dreams on a motley mix of apartment dwellers. The first Australian-Israel...

Books

The Armenian Question

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Robert Leiter

Peter Balakian is primarily a poet, with several acclaimed volumes to his credit. But beginning in the late 1990s, with the appearance of his prize-winning memoir, Black Dog of Fate , recently reissued by Basic Books in a updated edition, Balakian began delving into his family's Armenian past, and especially the fate of certain members at the hands of the...

Food

A Splash of Goulash

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Rivka Tal

Mention the word "goulash" and a lot of people automatically add the word, "Hungarian." Few would argue that the hearty beef stew was born in Middle Europe. The dish, as well as the word gulyás , actually hails from Hungary. Gulyá literally means "herd of cattle"; hence, gulyás means "cowherd." The meal prepared in a kettle by cowherds is called...