blog posts for j. the jewish news weekly

You can check my oft-updated blog posts for the j. weekly here: http://www.jweekly.com/blog/author/13/emily/

pamela des barres for soma magazine

international music venues for soma magazine

dream house for soma magazine

guggenheim for soma magazine

girls in trouble for venuszine

Alicia Jo Rabins sings about the original Girls In Trouble
Passionate sex, familial betrayal, abandoned children. No, it's not another teen-angst driven nighttime soap opera: it's the Torah [...]

dorothy lefkovits for j. the jewish news weekly

Swing and a prayer: Sherith Israel’s own to help put a jazzy spin on Shabbat
In New York, during the sticky hot summer of 1947, singer and pianist Dorothy Lefkovits first took the stage for the Apollo Theater’s legendary amateur hour. She was 15 years old and so nervous that she tried to hide behind the piano...

the whip for venuszine

Manchester’s the Whip is not for fans of two guys pushing buttons
Answering the phone in a thick British accent from her older sister’s flat in the small Manchester suburb of Chorltan, Lil Fee (née Fiona Daniel) is in a jovial mood, despite the dreary, grey sky filled with unrelenting English rain just outside her window.

jews on vinyl for j the jewish news weekly

CJM puts second spin on vintage Jewish records
Can you remember the feeling of purchasing a brand new record? Bringing it home, removing it from its colorful cardboard sleeve, gently moving the turntable arm into the first groove. You’d spend the afternoon lying on your belly studying the album cover art, the lyrics and the black-and-white back photos as you played the record over and over.

gram + swd for metro.pop

Isn’t it odd how the best designs, the most unique products, are oftentimes the result of collaboration?

indie gift guide for venuszine

Indie Gift Guide: San Francisco
San Francisco style can be hard to pin down. With distinct neighborhoods in the city proper — the Tenderloin, the Mission, The Haight — and even more unique outlying cities, there are a lot of different types of ladies to please.

christmas/chanukah for interfaithfamily.com

Neil Diamond, Sugar Cookies And Shiny Plastic Dreidels

im smitten for metro pop

IM SMITTEN
In fairy tales, bears sit at tables, children munch on candy houses and women can live in their shoes.

"from krakow to krypton" for j. the jewish news weekly

Comic relief: ‘From Krakow to Krypton’ throws Jewish cartoonists into spotlight

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … a book about Jews and comic books! And it is, admittedly, much more exciting than I thought it could be. While comic books themselves still give me a heart-palpitating rush, I worried that dissecting their creation and connections to Judaism would ruin their simple, aesthetic fun.

trail of our vinyl for j. the jewish news weekly

Recorded history: Book examines American Jewish experience through album covers
What can a 1957 Mickey Katz album, with the comedian posing on the cover as a kosher butcher, tell us about the American Jewish experience?