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South by Southwest, an annual music and film festival in Austin, Texas, has been around since 1987 yet has managed to maintain its geeky hipster street cred, attracting more than 2,000 artists and 30,000 of the young folk who love them, at its run last week. The festival in turn, of course, draws those who […]

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In the weeks before Passover, Rabbi David Kalb, director of Jewish education at the 92nd Street Y’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, is offering families a series of workshops on how to lead a seder. The Jewish Week asked the rabbi, in an email interview, how to make sure that the seder nights this year […]

In the 1980s, Larry Friedlander had an insight. As an English professor at Stanford, focusing on Shakespeare and the idea of performance, he saw the advent of personal computers as a boon for theater studies. Instead of seeing these new desktop creatures as counting machines, he sensed that they could provide immersive experiences akin to […]

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