Herb Alpert: It’s all about the feel
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On the phone last week from his home in Malibu, renowned musician Herb Alpert wished me a...
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Nora Krug: Searching for truth in the Shoah’s aftermath
Nora Krug, who was raised in Karlsruhe, Germany, several decades after the Holocaust, has created an intriguing graphic memoir, Belonging:...
Hard times in the Bronx with ‘Awake and Sing!’
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN What song is playwright Clifford Odets referring to in his 1935 drama Awake and Sing!? For most...
Frankenstein: A play for a perilous time
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Minnesota has an odd taste for Frankenstein’s monster, the towering revived corpse from Mary...
Ben Marcus: A book of imaginary woes
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you like clever short stories about unhappy, frustrated or lonely people, you'll love Notes from...