Features
CD Re-release Explores Mixing of Latin Music and Jewish Music
August 24, 2005
August 24, 2005
In 1959, when Irving Fields was playing piano at the Sherry Biltmore Hotel in Boston, two couples approached him with competing requests.
“One couple requested, ‘I Love You Much Too Much,’ a nice Jewish song,” Fields...
Almost By Accident, Jazz Pianist Helped Spark Musical Fusion Craze
August 24, 2005
August 24,2005
The CD of “Bagels and Bongos” features an interview with 90-year-old pianist Irving Fields, who still plays six nights a week at a Manhattan nightclub.
The liner notes describe Fields’ life story as one “of cultural...
The Dating Game
May 11, 2005
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THE DATING GAME
Photographs by Britt Carpenter
Ask the people who run dating services why their help is sorely needed, and they’ll tell you that most New Yorkers are...
Iraqi Politician’s Support for Israel Costs Him Dearly, But He Presses On
May 9, 2005
May 9, 2005
For daring to visit Israel, Mithal Al-Alusi has paid with more than his life: It cost him his two sons.
A Sunni Moslem who founded the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, or DPIN, Al-Alusi believes the new Iraq should defy...
The Rabbi Guides the Rehab
March 12, 2004
Friday, March 12, 2004
HOUSES OF WORSHIP
Faith helps recovery–and gets in the way of some funding.
LOS ANGELES–It’s Friday night, and Rabbi Mark Borovitz is ministering to his flock. A fatherly man with a bushy...
Way Up South
April 2, 2001
Summer 2001
Caption: WATER MAINE BREAK Higgins Beach in
Scarborough offers a half mile
of uncrowded sand and surf.
The world is your oyster on the southern coast of Maine, where salty air, cozy B&Bs and all the shellfish you can pry...
What’s Brewing
February 28, 2000
Americans tend to have lukewarm feelings about tea. Ever since the Boston Tea Party, the drink simply hasn’t gotten the respect it deserves. It’s not unusual to walk into a midtown deli looking for a cup of coffee and be faced...
Any Volunteers?
January 13, 2000
January 13 – 20, 2000
Photographs by TIMOTHY FADEK
You say you want to do good, but you just don’t have enough time. No more excuses-the following local agencies can always use an extra hand.
Like many cynical but soft-at-heart heart...
Rush Hashana
September 13, 1999
It’s that time of the year again, when the wail of the shofar is about to rise, signaling the start of the Jewish New Year and putting you, if you’re a good but fair-weather Jew who doesn’t belong to a synagogue, into a panic...
Pittsburgh, On Purpose
July 22, 1999
Photographs by DEBORAH KOSSMAN
This old steel town has impressive artwork, funky neighborhoods-and first-rate thrifting.
Caption: HEAVEN AND EARTH AT The Andy Warhol Museum, you can see his “Flowers” series and Cow...