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Silver Jews - Early Times 1990-91
The List
Disbanded in 2009, David Berman's Silver Jews project was a tremendous portmanteau of country and US indie that acted as a vehicle for Berman's lyrics, his voice, smooth and unsteady as stretched taffy, often simply speaking the words in tune, ...


 
Haaretz
Dutch-born Nazi war criminal dies in Germany
Haaretz
Dutch prosecutors have said he was convicted for killings at three different Dutch locations in 1944-1945, including six at the Westerbork transit camp, where thousands of Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank, were held before being sent to labor camps or ...
Top Nazi war criminal dies at 90AFP
Nazi war criminal Klass Faber dies at 90 in GermanyJerusalem Post

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Jewish Meditation: How Sitting Helped One Brooklynite Connect With Judaism
Huffington Post
By Laura Silver My cousin and I are both perpetually busy people: I've been known to zip between three or four cultural events in a single day, my bike piled high with gear, while she can carry on several simultaneous cell-phone conversations while ...

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A.V. Club DC
New music we like: Robert Francis
A.V. Club DC
Press play if you like: Ed Harcourt, M. Ward, Ryan Bingham, and other singer-songwriters who make lushly orchestrated folk music; Silver Jews' breezier side Some background: Los Angeles native Robert Francis grew up around music: His sister is ...

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IFC
Corporal, featuring Michael Shannon, presents “Glory”
IFC
Shannon and Corporal bandmate's, Robert Beitzel and Ray Rizzo (Dawn Landes, The Poison Tree) make music that call to mind the Silver Jews, if they'd had a hideout under the Brooklyn bridge. It's gloriously strange, a bit grimy, and makes me feel ...

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Talkin' 'Bout a Miracle and Rita Lyons
Huffington Post (blog)
I know the absurdest caricatures that Nicky Silver creates. My mother was expecting to see a comedy about the people she knows, a heartwarming tale of a loving Jewish mother caught in a ridiculous situation. Rita Lyons wasn't the matriarch she had in ...


 
New York Times
Wesley Brown, first black Naval Academy graduate, dies at 85
The Courier-Journal
AP Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, a descendant of Virginia slaves who endured racial taunts and merciless hazing to become the first black midshipman to graduate from the US Naval Academy in 1949, died May 22 at an assisted living center in Silver ...
Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, broke color barrier at Naval AcademyBaltimore Sun

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