By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Reviewer, “Steppin’ Out,” WYES-TV
Jewish historians will note that of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the world did not put a specific face on but a few. As to survivors, there...
Maurice Sendak, the author and illustrator of children’s books including the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” died of complications from a stroke in Danbury, Connecticut on May 7. He was 83. Born in Brooklyn, Sendak’s parents were Jewish...
Adam Yauch, aka MCA and one of the founding members of the all Jewish troupe of New York City rappers known as the Beastie Boys, died Friday of cancer. Yaunch was 47. At the time that the three Beastie Boys...
Among the inductees named to this year’s class at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are the Beastie Boys, who have been mixing rap, funk, soul and rock music for three decades. The ceremonies to be held in Cleveland...
If it’s Thanksgiving time in New Orleans, then pianist, arranger and composer Michael Wolff can’t be far off. Raised as a youngster in New Orleans, he has returned to what he regards as his hometown yearly and has camped out...
Mac Miller, a Jewish rapper whose initial foray into the recording industry has resulted in sales of 140,000 units and still going, is traveling to the Big Easy for a concert tonight at the House of Blues. Miller has generated...
Sam Wolfson, one of the two successful playwrights who brought us “Jewtopia,” travels to New Orleans from his Los Angeles home to oversee the first of several regional premieres of his new work “Play Dates,” bowing tonight at the Mid...
While Nathan Lane and Roger Rees have had their day as Broadway stars of the musical “The Addams Family,” Douglas Sills had rehearsals both in New York and in New Orleans as he prepared for the coveted role as Gomez Addams,...
