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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

Food

There's Nothing Greater Than the Great Outdoors

By:

Louise Fiszer, JE Feature

As soon as I see my daffodils and tulips popping out of the ground, I am ready to take the party outdoors. Dining al fresco is one of life's great pleasures. Despite the lack of rain this spring out here on the West Coast, my garden has managed to maintain its vibrant look. The following menu allows the cook to...

Food

Going Gluten-Free

Eating gluten-free has become a hot topic within, and increasingly, beyond, the celiac and gluten-intolerant community. For 21 years now, Pamela's Products has provided baking mixes and finished packaged cookies that focus on great taste so that celiacs and wheat-eaters can enjoy food equally and together. The baking mixes are certified "K," and the finished packaged cookies are "O.U." May...

Books

What Awaits Her ...

Life after death -- the death of a spouse, that is

By:

Robert Leiter

Confessional writing has been a fixture of the literary scene for so long now that we may forget how fraught with dangers the form can be, at least in its modern incarnation. A writer, even when striving to be unstintingly honest, can tip easily into bathos, or be so committed to "telling all" that he or she can begin revealing...

Food

Think Two-fer ...

Lag B'Omer and Mother's Day come back to back -- and it's all about the food

By:

Etehl Hofman, JE Feature

Lag B'Omer, this year takes place on Tuesday, May 12, on the 33rd day after the second day of Passover in the midst of the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot. ("Lag" is the Hebrew numerical equivalent of 33). For me and my husband, Lag B'Omer is a doubly special celebration. A few decades ago, we were married on Lag...

Theater

Which Way You Going, Billy?

Maybe on to a Tony Award sweep -- familiar dance ground for some local academy alums and their top-notch teacher

By:

Michael Elkin

Set to spring and soar among the Tony Award seraphim after stepping to the forefront of Broadway's best following this past Tuesday's record-tying nominations (15) announcement, "Billy Elliot" is operating on all jetés. And while this movie-based moving musical about an impoverished young lad from an English coal-mining town burnished into a diamond at dance class has raised the barr...