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There’s Life After “Stranger Things” – and It’s Called “Red Oaks” Season 2

By Josh Weiss | December 15, 2016

Let’s face some unsavory facts: the first season of “Stranger Things” is over and the show won’t be back until 2017. If you’re anything like me, there’s a gaping Eggo waffle-shaped void in your soul where Eleven and the rest of the Hawkins, Indiana gang used to reside. Was it the best new television series…

Bringing Holocaust Denial to Campus: Interview With ‘Hoaxocaust!’ Star Barry Levey

By Derek M. Kwait | September 23, 2014

Yesterday, I reviewed Hoaxocaust!, a new play performed and written by Barry Levey that satirizes Holocaust denial simply by putting the arguments of some of its biggest proponents, Arthur Butz, David Irving, Robert Faurisson, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in context. I saw the show the night of September 11 (coincidentally), then on September 12, I caught…

The Reading List: Israeli actors go political

By Ben Sales | August 31, 2010

American news outlets often report on the political mouthings-off of actors, from Tim Robbins’s liberal activism to Will.I.Am’s awesome Obama video. Israeli actors–one Arab and one Jewish–are also taking a political stand now, but they’re putting their money where their mouth is and boycotting a theater opening up in the Israeli settlement block of Ariel. The first…

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There’s Life After “Stranger Things” – and It’s Called “Red Oaks” Season 2

Bringing Holocaust Denial to Campus: Interview With ‘Hoaxocaust!’ Star Barry Levey

The Reading List: Israeli actors go political