Netflix’s TV series ‘Painkiller’ tells at least two cautionary tales By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor February 20, 2024 Flashing lights. Multicolored balloons. Cheerleaders dancing along to a catchy song. A fluffy blue mascot. A stiffly starched...
11th-grade writing assignment becomes a prizewinning play By Shevy Gomperts, 9th Grade May 12, 2023 An in-class play about piano, death and teenage emotions took center stage at a theater in San Diego earlier this year when senior...
Lenny’s Casita fills an L.A. kosher food gap By Avi Litvak, Staff Writer May 12, 2022 When Mexikosher closed three years ago, it was a dagger into the taco-loving heart of LA Jews who longed for a kosher Mexican...
At the Academy Museum, Jews are missing from the world of Motion Pictures. Here’s a look at what’s left out. By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor February 4, 2022 The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures displays and discusses artists of many races, religions, ethnicities, and causes, and...
Sweet, crunchy and kosher, Melrose Bite finds a trendy combo By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor January 4, 2022 Fried chicken sandwiches are trending, and the kosher world is part of the trend. Melrose Bite, recently rebranded from a dairy-and-vegan...
Squid Game, worldwide hit, raises radical questions about choice, death and squalor By Elliot Serure, Staff Writer December 6, 2021 Boom. A bullet knocks a man dead, another falls, then another. They lost the game – a simple childhood game of red light-green...
MY LIFE IN A SONG: A friend in the wild By Avi Litvak, Staff Writer November 8, 2021 My mom told me that wearing headphones on a hike was likely not a great idea, nor was hiking alone for that matter. But our family...
Vacation plan: How about a museum? By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor September 17, 2021 LA museums are open, and if you’re willing to wear a mask, you can see LACMA, the Petersen Automotive Museum, the Getty Center...
Worth the wait, Kanye West’s Donda shares every sort of emotion By Noah Masliah, 12th Grade September 17, 2021 Kayne West’s Donda is a tribute to his mother and best friend, Donda West, who died after surgery in 2007, so he wanted this...
Despite faults, ‘Tenet’ is a time-bending thriller that will leave you thinking By Elliot Serure, 10th Grade May 21, 2021 Writer-director Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited Tenet was supposed to save the film industry. Prior to Covid, movie theatre...
In ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways,’ Bob Dylan looks back to see the present By Eli Weiss, Digital Media Editor March 19, 2021 Even after a nearly 60-year career of songs covering everything from love to race to politics to death and so much more, Bob Dylan...
LIVE BLOG: The Oscars with Zach Helfand and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks and Zach Helfand February 9, 2020 This page is being updated throughout the Oscars awards ceremony by Opinion Editor Zach Helfand and Editor-in-Chief Jacob Joseph...
