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BOOK TOURS YOU DON'T COME BACK FROM

A Festival of (Jewish) Books

by Arielle Fleisher

4:04 pm October 12, 2010

It’s important to remember that Jews are more than just a semi-oppressed minority who run the teevee and whose ranks include crazy homophobes. Yes, Jews also can read and write books, although those books must be either about what it’s like to be Jewish or their personal lord and savior, Bob Dylan.

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The Theater (And Films, Too!) Can Make The Pain Go Away

by Arielle Fleisher

4:26 pm January 22, 2010

Tonight through Sunday February 14: There was a time in our nation when politicians actually argued for things they believed in and didn’t just whine until their balls fell off. Sad little liberals will find joy in Ford’s Theatre’s The Rivalry, which re-creates portions of the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas that focused [...]

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Blind Babies, Holiday Classics, and Some Shakespeare

by Arielle Fleisher

3:56 pm December 4, 2009

Tonight through Sunday, December 20: As You Like It starts out as a great production of a Shakespeare classic, but then becomes a slow journey through time in which the characters all adopt Southern twists to their British accents. Don’t miss it.