arts and culture
‘Sabbath Queen’: From radical drag artist to rabbi of a God-optional synagogue
December 3, 2024Another way of looking at the survival of the Jewish people, in all climes, and throughout all the empires, wars, monarchs and pogroms of the millennia, is precisely the adaptability to changing circumstances and the incorporation...
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Set in apartheid years, ‘Life & Times of Michael K’ intrigues, stuns, moves
December 3, 2024Michael K is born to a mother whose entire life has been one of service to wealthier white families. He had the misfortune to be born with a harelip, serious enough that it was hard for...
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‘Woman of the Hour’: Victims of the culture
December 2, 2024Clearly, Anna Kendrick has something to say.
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Jeanine Tesori’s new opera ‘Grounded’ is a call to moral accountability
November 27, 2024While the opera does not tackle head-on the wars Jess is fighting, it will surely provoke such questioning in the audience—about moral ambiguity at the very least.
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Follies of empire highlighted as ‘Epitafio’ gets its second coming
November 25, 2024Rather than a paean to the costs of settlement, it serves as a cautionary against colonization, a sad reminder of the human costs of such exploitation.
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