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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

Theater

North by Northwest -- Footlighting a Storied Suburban Showplace

By:

Michael Elkin

Who knew that Glenside would be on the side of the angels in the entertainment empyrean? Roy Snyder had a clue, but then, it's his business to make sure blue-sky suggestions become much more than Cloud 9 notions. Snyder and that stentorian voice -- Keswick Theatre mainstays for so long that the Glenside landmark and its senior talent buyer seem...

Food

For Turkey Day, Work Ahead, Then Relax

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Ethel Hofman, JE Feature

For entertaining, especially around the holidays, I'm a firm believer in doing as much as possible ahead of time. I want to be able to sit and enjoy my family and friends, instead of jumping up to check something in the kitchen. So, for my Thanksgiving menu, only the turkey, golden and succulent, is cooked on that special day. Directions...

Film & Television

Forecast of Wain

Is state-of-the-art filmmaker really a Renaissance man?

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Michael Elkin

Wain's world is not relegated to living in his mother's basement, banging out bongs and blistering rock. No, David Wain's world is topflight, taking a major step up the stairs of the heaven that is Hollywood, which is now greeting his mojo of a major studio-house effort with numbers that serve as role models for modern-day success stories. All with...

Film & Television

Miranda-izing God?

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Michael Elkin

"God on Trial" -- on the seventh day, the defense rested? There is no rest for memory. And that is what this fascinating, if occasionally ploddingly pedantic and draining, drama offers as a plot point as part of "Masterpiece Contemporary," being broadcast this Saturday morning and Sunday evening at 9 on WHYY-TV Arts and Culture Channel. Why? It takes on...

Film & Television

Art as Vulnerable Victim of Ugly Times

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Michael Elkin

Neil Friedman treasures his trove of masterpiece movies, gems distributed by his Menemsha Films with a sense of doing so for art's sake. But it is art forsaken and foraged that puts the focus on what may be his most-successful venture to date: "The Rape of Europa," the compelling documented continental drift of morals dredged up by the Nazis in...