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Trouble at the Rosenkrantz Ranch

It was June of 1985, but when Robert Rosenkrantz fired ten bullets into high school classmate Steve Redman, it felt like something out of the Wild West. Twenty-three years later, Rosenkrantz is out of prison. Allen Salkin remembers a murder that grabbed the attention of a California town and the gay community nation-wide.
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If You Build It

"I first went to Israel in 1959 and I have very fond memories of it," Richard Meier tells me from his office in New York City. "I never thought I'd actually have the opportunity to work there." Thanks to the...
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Tony Curtis
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Bernie Schwartz's parents came to the US from Satmar because it was the land of opportunity. Changing his name to Tony Curtis, he became one of the hottest commodities in Hollywood in the 1950's, earning an Oscar nod and screen time with some of Tinseltown's biggest names (including a spot on The Flintstones as "Stony Curtis").
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Six For Five

When Montreal-based artist Pat Hamou came across an old lineup photo of Murder Inc. hitman Abe "Kid Twist" Reles in an old New York Daily News, he was mesmerized. He began researching figures from the golden er...
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Bridez to Perform at Diamond Days on July 19

The kind people at Gifted Children Records have provided us with an MP3 from Bridez, the loud and trashed-out San Francisco band playing Diamond Days on Saturday, July 19 at Ghost Town Gallery. The three piece ...
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Daniel Libeskind: The _Heeb_ Interview

by Amy Westervelt Polish-born, New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind first came to the attention of the architecture world when his Jewish museum in Berlin was unveiled in September 2001. Coincidentally, th...
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Matador Records 5, _Heeb_ 1

After a brutal six innings filled with strikeouts, errors and assbackward baserunning, _Heeb_ redeemed itself in the final hour of this week's whiffleball game at Central Park in Manhattan (sponsored by Saucony...
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My Favorite Yenta

Renta-Yenta is a new Yiddish personal assistant service that promises to "help you to get everything done without having to do everything by yourself". Everything? Can these yentas give you unsolicited input on...