Picks and Clicks

Arsen Serobian as SpartacusAugust 15, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks August 16-22: Politics, dance, education and music

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Jamie M. Fox -- see WednesdayThursday, August 7, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks August 9-15: Tisha B'Av, music, opera, comedy and Brad A. Greenberg

There's nothing like a heated, intelligent political debate to get Jews' social synapses firing. Jewish Journal staff writer, Brad Greenberg, a.k.a. The God Blogger, will be holding the reins of "The Young Jewish Vote," where Republican Jewish Coalition Director Larry Greenfield will face Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Pasadena) in a battle to win the hearts and educated minds of young Jewish professionals between the ages of 21 and 39

Rosanna Gamson in 'Tov'
See Sunday's listingFriday, August 1, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks for August 1-7, 2008: Dance, comedy, sports, theater, politics

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Stephanie PressmanThursday, July 24, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks July 26-August 1—Rothman, Pressman live

Painting by Eli Lesky
See SundayFriday, July 18, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks July 19-25: Psychedelic justice, art on the sand, women on drums

Cool events around SoCal, personally picked by the Calendar Girls

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for July 12 - 18—Hadassah, the cosmos and more

Shipwrecked.  See Friday listing.Thursday, July 3, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for July 5 - 11

'Live and Become'.  See Saturday listing.Friday, June 27, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 28 - July 4

Valerie HarperFriday, June 20, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 21-27

Lewis BlackThursday, June 12, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 14-20

Shat signs SundayThursday, June 5, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 7-13

Walk for Darfur.  See Sunday listingThursday, May 29, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for May 31-June 6

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for May 24-30

Cool things to do next week

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Calendar Girls clicks and picks May 17-23

When filmmaker Ben Byer sets out on a global quest to find a cure for ALS, the neurodegenerative disease crippling him, he discovers the will to survive.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Calendar Girl clicks and picks for May 10-16

Events May 10-16, 2008

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for May 3-9

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for May 3-9

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 26-May 2

Winner of the Camera d'Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, "Jellyfish" is another example of the remarkable cinematic explosion of Israeli films garnering

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 19-25

Events Calendar

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 12- 18

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 12- 18

See listing on Saturday for His PeopleThursday, April 3, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 5-11

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 5-11

Rhea Carmi: Les Voix Du Silence II.  See Tuesday listingThursday, March 27, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for March 29-April 4

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for March 29-April 4


Featured Stories

Food
Eating Bambi (recipe included)

Most of the anti-Semitic mail I get these days doesn't concern Israel, Hollywood or even the threat of a nuclear war in the Middle East -- it's about meat.

Music
Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory

One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material.

Torah Portion
How to comfort and be comforted

Parshat Vaetchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) God tells Moses that although he's faithfully led His people through the desert these past 40 years, and although the Jews are now standing at the very border of the Holy Land, Moses himself will never be allowed entry, and will die and

Religion
Randy Pausch’s last lecture links morality and purpose

"Brick walls are there for a reason," wrote the late Dr. Randy Pausch, author of the best-selling book, "The Last Lecture."

Opinion
The Great Awakening

The Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church will hold back-to-back public conversations this Saturday, Aug. 16, with the two presumptive presidential
candidates, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. The conversations, on the topic of "Compassion and Leadership," will be