Culture and Society

The other day, we observed the winter solstice. The day with the fewest hours of sunlight in the calendar year—the longest, darkest night. I happen to live 100 feet above the Lake Michigan shore, and I am often treated to beautiful sunrises if I get up early enough–the beauty of …

So how did I get here? I mean wind up as a Jewish Cantor? A Hazzan and full member of the Jewish clergy. I wasn’t born to it. Nope. I was raised in the most secular of Skokie homes. Sunday School, not Hebrew school (parental units though that would be …

A first-rate, meticulously crafted operatic holiday revue with glorious singing and dancing, just what we need in dark times.

I even went so far as putting on the hat and beard as I wrapped Christmas presents in the attic, and now that is all gone. I'm hanging up my hat and beard. Bah, Humbug!

"The show starts off with these two best friends who come out of hibernation, which is akin to what's going on with our world...It's nice to see them navigate the ins and outs of their crazy, critter lifestyles."

"I hope [audiences] go away with a lot of quotations besides 'bah, humbug!' and with little pearls of Dickens' wisdom about mankind."

"I quite like oranges. I've been reviewing oranges to figure out where in Richmond they sell the best ones."

Goodman and Ross are comics and writers who for nine years have also been impresarios like no others.

The Pulitzer Prize winner offers a funny and dark fairy-tale love story in a colorful production by Nylon Fusion.

"Because it's a Christmas [story], every year around Christmas it'll be revisited and played. It's a timeless story that is never going to be outdated."