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‘West Side Story’ learns ¡Español!

Broadway musical “West Side Story” has made its triumphant return after more than 50 years. As mentioned here before, this time the Puerto Rican characters actually speak Spanish — How exciting is that!
New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley has a lot to say about the show, most of it positive. Sadly, Brantley seems a [...]

Black jazz greats’ Jewish angel: Nica Rothschild

I just read a really cool article in The New York Times about a virtually royal French Jewish woman who devoted her life to supporting the work of brilliant but often broke African-American jazz greats in New York City. It’s a romantic an inspiring story.
The woman was Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswarte, known [...]

Video game loses Koran verses

It’s a small world after all, which is why Sony had the opportunity to read on a Web forum that some folks don’t want verses from the Koran wafting out of their video games. Sony is therefore removing a song from the new PlayStation game Little Big Planet, because the song contains Koranic lyrics, before [...]

Sarah Silverman: Racist Jew for Obama

“If Barack Obama doesn’t win, I’m gonna blame the Jews.”
- Sarah Silverman

Barack Obama is a master politician, exquisitely fine-tuned, “on-message” even in his sleep. So he must have no idea that comedian Sarah Silverman is on YouTube stumping for him, shmoozing with old Florida Jews about all they have in common with young black men [...]