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With empty seats and shrinking budgets, and virtual boycotts from some venues abroad, Israel’s performing arts scene has had it rough the last two years. But not Vertigo Dance Company. According to general manager Adi Sha’al, the 10-year-old contemporary dance troupe is packing houses, even if they’re not exactly selling out. "In these times when […]
With his odes to Italian restaurants and songs about Catholic girls, most Billy Joel fans may never have pegged the "Piano Man" for the scion of a once-thriving German-Jewish mercantile family whose fortunes were swept away in the Holocaust. One unsuspecting music aficionado was Beate Thalberg. The Austrian filmmaker discovered Joel’s surprising family history while […]
With his odes to Italian restaurants and songs about Catholic girls, most Billy Joel fans may never have pegged the "Piano Man" for the scion of a once-thriving German-Jewish mercantile family whose fortunes were swept away in the Holocaust. One unsuspecting music aficionado was Beate Thalberg. The Austrian filmmaker discovered Joel’s surprising family history while […]