PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Culture The New York Times Crossword Was Yiddish-Themed For Yom Kippur
While many of us spent yesterday reflecting in shul, The New York Times crossword section paid tribute to Yom Kippur with a Yiddish-themed puzzle. Spoilers ahead for those who haven’t done it yet. Because it was just a Wednesday puzzle the answers weren’t too esoteric. “Tchotchke,” “Schmaltz,” “Chutzpah,” “Oy Gevalt,” “Megillah” and “Verklempt” dotted the…
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Culture ‘Sesame Street’ Writer Confirms: Bert And Ernie Are Gay — And One Is Jewish
In a September 16 interview “Sesame Street” writer Mark Saltzman put years of speculation to rest, letting the world know that Ernie and Bert are a gay couple — at least, he wrote them that way. Saltzman told Queerty that while he worked on scenes between the odd couple roommates, he drew from his own…
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Breaking News Tom Arnold Scuffles With Mark Burnett Over Trump ‘Apprentice’ Tape
Actor Tom Arnold tussled with Reality TV maven Mark Burnett at a pre-Emmys party Sunday, September 16, and the story just keeps getting stranger. The fight, for which Arnold filed a police report Monday morning, appears to be regarding the long-rumored outtakes of Burnett’s show “The Apprentice” in which Donald Trump allegedly drops the N-word….
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Film & TV Bert And Ernie Are Lovers, Says ‘Sesame Street’ Writer Mark Saltzman
Putting to rest decades of speculation, former “Sesame Street” writer Mark Saltzman has confirmed to Queerty that Ernie and Bert are an item – at least in his eyes. Not only are the couple lovers, Saltzman says they are avatars of himself and his late partner Arnold Glassman. “I always felt that without a huge…
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Culture Virtual Reality, Rare Artifacts And More At The Museum Of Jewish Heritage’s New Exhibit
Like many institutions devoted to Holocaust education, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan is confronting a problem: How to tell the stories of survivors when their numbers are dwindling. “In Confidence: Holocaust History Told By Those Who Lived It,” a new exhibit that opened at the museum on September 16, poses a variety of…
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Culture A New Film Shows Garry Winogrand’s Life Up Close
When photographer Garry Winogrand died in 1984, he left the world thousands of rolls of undeveloped film. Since that time, those who knew him best have been reckoning not just with his backlog, but also with the legacy of the man himself. In the documentary “Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable,” opening Wednesday September 19…
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Art Nan Goldin Cries ‘Shame’ Over Purdue Pharma’s Anti-Opioid Patent
On September 10, 2018 photographer Nan Goldin continued her protest of Purdue Pharma, which she believes is turning a profit off of opioid addiction — and this time she brought backup. Hyperallergic reports that Goldin’s organization P.A.I.N. Sackler, the Appalachian-based arts collective Queer Appalachia and leadership group the Voices Project joined forces in a statement…
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Culture Hear The Only Recording Of Freud’s Voice
What did Sigmund Freud sound like? We may imagine the heavily-accented, precisely-pronounced English fed to us by pop culture parodies and tributes from “Bill & Ted” to “A Dangerous Method.” While actual audio of Freud is surprisingly scarce, what little we do have seems to support the broader impressions that exist – though it comes…
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