Animated Long Story Short Brings Heart, Hilarity
When I first heard of Long Story Short, I was very intrigued by its premise as an animated show centered on a Jewish family. It checked off one of my […]
October 17, 2025
October 16, 2025
Eleanor The Great A Moving Contemplation Of Grief And Friendship
At 95, Oscar-nominated actress June Squibb is having quite the third-act renaissance, starring in her first leading role (Thelma) only last year. And in this year’s Eleanor The Great, Squibb, […]
October 9, 2025
Israeli Singer Noga Erez is Threading A Needle
Proving that the comeback is always greater than the setback, Israeli rap sensation Noga Erez will touch down in Minneapolis on Thursday, Oct. 16, and the sold-out show at the […]
September 16, 2025
Lena Dunham’s New Show Too Much Has Winning Performances, But Light On Jewish Content
I’m late to the Lena Dunham party, not having seen Girls or any of her independent films, but I was curious about Too Much since it stars Megan Stalter (Jimmy’s daffy […]
August 5, 2025
‘Bad Shabbos’ Opens In St. Louis Park Friday
Editor’s note: this review ran last summer after the Tribeca Film Festival. In Bad Shabbos, winner of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Audience Award in 2024, it’s Friday night on the […]
April 15, 2025
New PBS Documentary Tackles Artist, Activist And Pulitzer Prize-Winner Art Spiegelman
The name Art Spiegelman is guaranteed to evoke one word for anyone familiar with the artist: Maus. His Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel (to date, the only one to be so […]
December 19, 2024
What A ‘Wicked’ Year for Jews
It was in simpler and more peaceful times that the Maccabeats’ first music video for Hanukkah, intended for their mostly Orthodox audience, went viral. The year was 2010, and since […]
December 12, 2024
Six13 Wishing Everyone ‘A Wicked Chanukah’
A capella group Six13 has chosen two songs from the cultural phenomenon Wicked for the group’s annual Hanukkah song. The group used the well-known hits Defying Gravity and Popular to […]
November 28, 2024
Susan Seidelman Memoir Details Life Of Trailblazing Director
It can be cliché to call someone a pioneer, but for American film director, writer, and producer Susan Seidelman, it’s true. In her memoir, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About […]
November 15, 2024
‘The Boy In The Woods’ A Story of Remarkable Holocaust Survival
The cruelty and ugliness of the Nazis and their collaborators is arguably most acutely felt when carried out against children. As The Boy In The Woods opens, Max (Jett Klyne, […]