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Meet the L.A. attorney whose successful restitution effort inspired ‘Woman in Gold’

Randol Schoenberg is portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in the film based on his successful legal effort to win back a valuable Gustav Klimt painting confiscated by the Nazis.

By Tom Tugend April 3, 2015 1:26 pm

Germanwings tragedy eerily echoes Damian Szifron’s ‘Wild Tales’

The recent crash resembled a segment from the Academy Award-nominated Argentinean film, in which a pilot with unresolved psychological issues locks himself in the cockpit and crashes a plane full of passengers.

April 3, 2015 12:03 pm

A Classic Seder Song Like You've Never Heard it Before

A Favorite Seder Song Like You’ve Never Heard it Before

Can music change the world? Create peace? For some, that might be marketing copy. For the members of Diwan Saz, an incredibly skilled multi-faith and multi-ethnic 9-piece band, it seems to be an earnestly held belief. Part of its name, “diwan,” means “coming together of people” in Turkish, and Diwan Saz practices what it preaches: […]

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Meet the L.A. attorney whose successful restitution effort inspired ‘Woman in Gold’

Germanwings tragedy eerily echoes Damian Szifron’s ‘Wild Tales’

A Favorite Seder Song Like You’ve Never Heard it Before

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Meet the L.A. attorney whose successful restitution effort inspired ‘Woman in Gold’

Germanwings tragedy eerily echoes Damian Szifron’s ‘Wild Tales’

A Favorite Seder Song Like You’ve Never Heard it Before

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