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Stella Peretz Rogovoy, 71, of Seattle, Wash., devoted wife of 52 years to Lawrence Rogovoy, of Seattle, and daughter of Rose Schiff Peretz (since departed) of New York, N.Y., died of complications of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on April 9, 2009. She leaves two children, Seth Rogovoy, of Great Barrington, Mass., and Ruth Berkman, of Seattle;…
Every generation gets the film version of “The Great Gatsby” it deserves. Ours will be a 3-D “Gatsby” directed by Baz Luhrmann — he of the hyperactive, swooping camera of “Moulin Rouge!” and the highly stylized, gaudy adaptation of “Romeo + Juliet.” But like every previous “Gatsby” adaptation, this one will speak with just the…
Anyone who has had the great pleasure and honor of having known or worked with Clemens Kalischer, as I have been most fortunate to do, knows how reticent he is, especially on two topics in paritcular: himself and his past. All the more credit to Scott Christianson of Great Barrington, Mass., who was able to…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – There are so many sorry-ass excuses for knishes running around these days, many so bland and wrong they don’t even deserve to be called a knish. A real old-fashioned, well-seasoned potato knish is a rare and wonderful thing. And I just happen to live in a town that I do believe has…
COUNTRY-FOLK SINGER-SONGWRITER IRIS DEMENT at CLUB HELSINKI (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Iris DeMent brings her unmistakable soprano and authentic country-folk songs to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, April 20, 2013, at 9 p.m. Had Iris DeMent been making country albums in the ’70s and ’80s and had more commercial ambition, she’d probably…
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by Seth Rogovoy (FORWARD, April 16, 2013) – Madonna had nothing on David Bowie when she came out as a devotee of Kabbalah in 1998. The British rock star beat Madonna by 20 years or so when he sang about the sefirot, the mystical vessels of divine energy, in the title track of his 1976…
by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – No child left behind? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about this sign posted just a few blocks away at the local elementary school. Is it the pairing of the quintessential junk food purveyor and its most vulnerable market — the youngest consumers – in a school-sanctioned…
I hope to lay down some words soon on some or all of these, but in the meantime, here’s a glimpse of what I’ve been listening to repeatedly so far this year (as of mid-March 2013): New albums Yo La Tengo, Fade Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away David Bowie, The…
