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First event in the new building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

First event in the new building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

A few weeks ago was the official opening of the beautiful new, expanded building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The Herta & Paul Amir Building is designed by Preston Scott Cohen, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts. On wednesday, November the 30th. (20:00h) there will be a first event in the new building, mixing social and art, with e.g. a lecture: ‘The Intersection between Design & Technology’. If you love architecture (and art), you will fall … Read entire article »

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Jane Birkin in Reading-3 Club Tel Aviv: Je T’aime… [video]

Jane Birkin in Reading-3 Club Tel Aviv: Je T’aime… [video]

British singer (1946) Jane Birkin, who was married to Serge Gainsbourg, will perform at the Reading-3 Club on January  13th and 14th 2012. Who will ever forget the couple’s most sensual song: ‘Je T’aime, Moi Non Plus’… … Read entire article »

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Please Release Me…: Engelbert Humperdinck to TLV

Please Release Me…: Engelbert Humperdinck to TLV

Today he is: 75…the famous English singer from the 50s and 60s: Engelbert Humperdinck. Who didn’t danced slow on: ‘Quando, Quando, Quando’, ‘Spanish Eyes’, ‘A Man Without Love’ and ofcourse: ‘The Last Waltz’. Engelbert Humperdinck will give his show in Nokia Hall on December 1st at 21:30. … Read entire article »

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‘Life in Stills’ wins its first international award!

‘Life in Stills’ wins its first international award!

Last evening, the touching documentary: Life in Stills,directed by Tamar Tal and produced by Barak Heymann, did win its first international award: the Talent Dove of the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig at the 54th. International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. Life in Stills is the story about Miriam Weissenstein and her grandson Ben to keep their famous shop Photo House Pri-Or at the spot it was since 1940: at Allenbey-street no. 30. Miriam, … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv to roll out free public WiFi

Tel Aviv to roll out free public WiFi

Another great move by the Tel Aviv Municipality: they announced this week that it plans to roll out free wireless internet in parks, boulevards, commercial districts and beaches throughout the city in 2012. Among many others, free wireless Internet (wifi) service is planned to strech along the length of Dizengoff, Ben-Yehuda and Ibn Gvirol Streets, and Ben Gurion, Nordau, Rothschild and Yerusalayim Boulevards, along the beach, starting from Jaffa/Yafo. Ron: You did it again!! … Read entire article »

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Israeli Opera Chorus does Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in TAPAC

Israeli Opera Chorus does Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in TAPAC

On Sunday, October 23rd. (20:00), The Israeli Opera Chorus will perform Gioacchino Rossini’s: ‘Petite Messe Solennelle’ (1863) in the Israeli Opera (TAPAC Center). The mass, for solists and chorus, accompanied by piano and and harmonium, will be conducted by Yishai Steckler and performed by Efrat Askenazi (soprano), Ayala Zimbler (mezzo-sporano), Yosef Aridan (tenor) and Noah Bridger (baritone). Information: 03-6927777 … Read entire article »

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Samba-singer Elisete Retter in Cafe Yafo [video]

Samba-singer Elisete Retter in Cafe Yafo [video]

Exotic Brazilian-Israeli samba-singer Elisete Retter will give another show (So Danco Samba) on Tuesday, October 11th. (21:00) in Cafe Yaffo, Olei Tzionstreet 11, Yafo. A promise: you won’t sit on your chair for one minute ;-) … Read entire article »

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A Chorus Line will swing The Opera House Tel Aviv

A Chorus Line will swing The Opera House Tel Aviv

From October 18th. until October 29th. one of the most popular American musicals all times: A Chorus Line will swing the audience at The Opera House (TAPAC). The 1975 musical (lyrics by Edward Kleban and music by Marvin Hamlisch) about Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line ran only on Broadway for 6.137 performances, winning 9 Tony Awards. Don’t miss Broadway at his best, this month in Tel Aviv. Information: 03-6927777 … Read entire article »

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The first Slideluck Potshow in Tel Aviv

The first Slideluck Potshow in Tel Aviv

After New-York, London, Sao Paulo, L.A., Barcelona, Nairobi,Chicago, Mexico-City, Copenhagen, Toronto, Sevillia, Rome, Bogota, San Francisco, Madrid, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Bucharest, Berlin, Panama-City, Montreal and New Orleans… The first Telavivi Slideluck Potshow took yesterday-evening (September 19th.) place in Tel Aviv at the old town-hall (Beit Ha-Ir, Bialik Square). The Slideluck Potshow is a New-York based, non-profit arts organization, that provides an opportunity for artists and art-appreciaters to gather around food, friends and artwork. The event, which began in … Read entire article »

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The once Ben Nahum Hotel is today the place to be: Shampina

The once Ben Nahum Hotel is today the place to be: Shampina

Last Saturday afternoon I did visit an afternoon-party at the Shampina Bar on Rothschild Boulevard 32. The place was crowded and swinging with the ‘to be seen folks’ of Tel Aviv. You will find the Shampina in the once Ben Nahum Hotel, the beautiful building with this special roof-top on the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street, designed in 1921 by Judah Magidovitch, Tel Aviv’s first city engineer. Last September restoration works started on the … Read entire article »

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Exhibition of Yakov Agor in Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Exhibition of Yakov Agor in Tel Aviv Museum of Art

This week an exhibition was opened in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art about the Israeli photographer Yakov Agor (1911-1996), who became famous for his pictures in the left-wing weekly ‘HaOlam-Haze’ (Uri Avneri) and later on in ‘Haaretz Magazine’... Information: 03-607.7020 … Read entire article »

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Singer/composer Arcady Duchin in Zappa [video]

One of the Israeli-Russian singer/composers I love themost, Arcady Duchin, will give a concert (Arcady Duchin Trio) in Zappa Club on Thursday, July 21st at 20:30. … Read entire article »

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Blues legend Mark Rashkow in the Shablul Jazz Club [video]

Blues legend Mark Rashkow in the Shablul Jazz Club [video]

Chicago blues legend Mark Rashkow (1951), who immigrated to Israel in 2003, will give a concert at the Shablul Jazz Club on Thursday, July 21st (21:00) under de name: “Born in Chicago: The History of the Blues in Three Acts”… Yes………..let’s do it !!! … Read entire article »

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