Dr. Fran Levine is someone who knows a thing or two about history. As the former president and CEO of the Missouri Historical Society and Missouri History Museum, and the interim executive director of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum in 2022,...

The last pizza has been baked. The last broasted chicken has been served, and now the iconic Frank & Helen’s restaurant in University City is officially a "lost table." A "lost table" is what Dr. Harley Hammerman calls those St. Louis restaurants...

The 14th annual Hanukkah Hullabaloo drew a full house at The Grandel Theatre on Dec. 7. The Brothers Lazaroff hosted the concert and celebration of the Festival of Lights. They were accompanied by the regular members of the Eight Nights Orchestra,...

To celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas, Max and Sophie, siblings in an interfaith family, bake up a batch of gingerbread dreidels. That’s the plot of a new children’s book out this year, but it could be a real-life occurrence this month, when the...

Mahjong, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Most recently, I felt cooler than cool when I found out movie star Julia Roberts’ favorite hobby is playing mahj!  Several of you have sent me a 2018 video clip that’s resurfacing of the Oscar-winning...

“Running a restaurant isn’t really satisfying,” wrote Alice Brock. “In fact, next to running a hospital emergency ward, I think this is the worst thing you can do.” But her time running a restaurant gave Brock a measure of pop immortality:...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. September 5, director Tim Fehlbaum’s gripping control room thriller about the 1972 massacre at the Munich Olympics...

Award-winning Israeli spy thriller “Tehran” is set to welcome celebrated British actor Hugh Laurie for its third season, premiering December 9 on Apple TV+ and Israel’s Kan public broadcaster. Laurie, known for his roles in “House” and...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, workshops, and a gladiator barracks known as the Caserma dei...

What’s so Jewish about “Wicked”? Composer Stephen Schwartz once reflected in an interview, “I think a lot of musical theater themes speak to Jewish audiences because in many instances musicals are about outsiders, striving to discover how they...

The New Jewish Theatre will close out its 2024 season with “First Date,” a romantic musical comedy that hopes to take audiences on a rollercoaster of laughter, heart and unexpected surprises. Before heading to the Wool...