Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actress Julie Halston
Topics include: Charles Busch, Classical Julie, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.
Segment originally aired March 16, 2013 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 416th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 16, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actress Julie Halston and singer Debby Boone. Plus: Inside Broadway, Rabbi Sol on soft drinks, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Arts & Letters) and a St. Pat’s Saturday Segue.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: actress Julie Halston, singer Debby Boone
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:07:30 SATURDAY SEGUE: St. Pat’s 00:35:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 00:54:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Julie Halston 01:43:30 Sponsors 01:52:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #061 (Sugar Sugar) 02:03:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Arts & Leisure) 02:38:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Debby Boone 03:22:30 Weather, Friends & Thanks 03:34:00 DAVE GOES OUT
March 16, 2013 Playlist: “From Galway to Graceland” (00:08:00; Richard Thompson). “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” (00:13:00; Michael Feinstein). “Streets of Arklow” (00:17:00; Van Morrison). “Limericks” (00:21:00; Benny Bell). “The Rocky Road to Dublin” (00:24:00; The Clancy Brothers). “”The Belle of Belfast City” (00:26:00; Kirsty MacColl). “It Might as Well Rain Until September” (00:49:30; Carole King). “Julie Halston accepting an award from the Off-Broadway Theater Alliance” (youtube clip). “You Gotta Have a Gimmick” (01:18:00; Gypsy 2003 Bway revival). “Thunder on the Mountain” (02:06:30), “I was Young When I Left Home” (02:12:00) & “Call Letter Blues” (02:22:00; Bob Dylan). “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (02:17:30; Counting Crows). “Love is a Four- Letter Word” (02:26:00; Joan Baez). “Surrender” (02:35:00), “Blue Skies” (02:43:00), “When You’re Loved” (02:57:00), “You Light Up My Life” (03:12:30), “California” (03:18:00) & “Hasta Manana” (03:37:00).
Julie HalstonDebby BooneDebby Boone lighting up our livesHappy St. Pat’s!
Segment originally aired March 9, 2013 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 415th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 9, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring Rabbi Sol Solomon’s chat with theatrical director David Herskovits (of Target Margin Theater). Plus: Inside Broadway, the satirical News Gone By, a Saturday Segue (snow) and Rabbi Sol on the return of “Whose Line.”
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: theatrical director David Herskovits
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:12:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Snow 00:46:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (News (00:46:00), Legally Blonde at UNC (00:59:30)) 01:16:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews David Herskovits 01:51:30 Sponsors 01:55:00 NEWS GONE BY 02:01:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Legally Blonde on Blonde) 02:34:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #060 (“Whose Line” returns) 02:39:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – More Snow 02:55:00 Friends 02:59:30 DAVE GOES OUT
March 9, 2013 Playlist: “Come a Long Way” (00:13:00) & “Winter Song” (02:45:00; Loudon Wainwright III). “Winter Wonderland” (00:15:30; The Roches). “Winter” (00:17:30; Tori Amos). “50 Words for Snow” 00:23:00; Kate Bush). “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” (00:31:30; Frank Zappa). “Winter Weather” (00:33:30; Benny Goodman w/ Art Lund & Peggy Lee). “Listen the Snow is Falling” (00:36:30; Yoko Ono). “Blood in the Water” (01:11:00; Legally Blonde 2007 Broadway cast w/ Michael Rupert). “I Want You” (02:01:30), “Visions of Johanna” ({“No Directions Home” alternate version}; 02:04:30), “Temporary Like Achilles” (02:11:00), “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)” (02:16:00), “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 ({MTV Unplugged version}; 02:21:00) & “Obviously 5 Believers” (02:24:30; Bob Dylan). “Winter Song” (02:39:00; Tom Paxton). “Winter Song” (02:41:30; Nico).
David HerskovitsDylan’s Blonde on BlondeLegally Blonde in rehearsal at UNCsnow
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #59 (3/3/2013): Disappearing Delis
Aired March 2, 2013 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/dXEmeT2NOd8
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of March 3rd, 2013.
Oh, woe is me. Woe are all of us. There was a story in the Los Angeles Times this week about the decline of the Jewish deli in American life. The story bemoaned the closing of the 50-year-old Junior’s Deli in L.A., and the 75-year-old Stage Deli in New York. There used to be thousands of delicatessens in Manhattan, now there are dozens. And delis are being deleted from other major cities, too.
Why is this? All sorts of reasons. Changing demographics, the generation that grew up feasting on tubes of salami is now eating through a tube, and the younger people have so many choices of where to eat and what to eat. It’s hard to blame them when they don’t go for the old pickles-on-the-table, toothpick-in-the-brisket standbys. Also not helping is our so-called health consciousness, which sees fatty meat and red meat and cured meat and smoked meat as the four horsemeats of the apocalypse. Oh sure, McDonald’s and Burger King aren’t exactly dishing out broccoli quinoa, but you can buy a happy meal for five dollars. Try finding a heaping brisket sandwich for less than a sawbuck.
Deli owners complain they have to increase prices because food costs keep rising, rent goes up, and insurance is through the roof. Which, if you figure every third person in a Jewish deli is a candidate for a bypass or old enough for a plot in Baron Hirsch, you can see why.
Some delicatessens are going with the flow. They’re serving egg-white omelettes, they’re offering Cajun burgers, they’re doing paninis instead of blinis. The co-owner of Canter’s restaurant told the L.A. Times, “You don’t need to just have rye bread and pastrami to have a deli sandwich.” I agree. You also need Russian dressing and potato salad.
Yet we have to endure stories about delis in San Francisco bringing in homemade sodas and drinks – and removing Dr. Browns. A deli without Dr. Brown’s cream or black cherry soda? Is the world truly coming to an end? My God, Dr. Brown’s are the people who made a soda out of celery. The single most useless, hated vegetable on earth, and some genius at Dr. Brown’s made a delicious – well, tolerable – carbonated beverage out of it. And they say deli’s not health food. Pooey!
Look, I understand the need to change with the times, but you don’t fix what isn’t broken, and a good pastrami sandwich, cut thick, on fresh rye, with a shtickel of red pepper, is going to outlast doomsday – let alone garden burgers and tofu chicken. Things are cyclical, and just the way Yiddish has been brought back around by a new generation of Orthodox Jews, and just like record albums are selling again thanks to audiophiles and scary black people, I believe the virtues of an old-fashioned Jewish deli are bound to rebound in the public imagination. Much the way a chopped-liver sandwich ricochets from your stomach to your heart to your throat to your intestines to your eyes. You eat it once, you’re still eating it three days later – that’s value!
So let us not yet say kaddish for kishke and hymns for Hebrew National. Let us hope that owners of Jewish and Kosher delis – which are not the same, by the way. If someone hands you a corned beef on white toast with Swiss cheese over it, you’re probably not in a kosher establishment. If somebody hands you a pastrami with ham over it, you’re probably in hell. But either way, let us hope the deli owners find a way to keep prices down, quality up, hot dogs on the grill, pickles on the dill, kasha and knishes, herring and whitefishes, Cel-Ray in our glasses, and cellulite on our asses.
Anyone who has a belly knows the beauty of a deli.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with actor and singer Chuck Muckle.
Topics include: At Wit’s End, Oscar Levant, Robert Goulet, John Astin.
Segment originally aired March 2, 2013 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with mime artist Avner Eisenberg (aka “Avner the Eccentric”).
Topics include: “Exceptions to Gravity” returns to NY, The Jewel of the Nile, Woody Allen, Jacques LeCoq, Marcel Marceau, Maine.
Segment originally aired March 2, 2013 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 414th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, March 2, 2013. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Note: Audio difficulties necessitated the re-recording of the opening segment and some over-modulation of the volume in the first part of the show.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon’s chats with mime and clown Avner “The Eccentric” Eisenberg and with actor-singer Chuck Muckle. Plus: Inside Broadway, a Saturday Segue (Lou Reed’s birthday) and Rabbi Sol on disappearing delis.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guests: singer Chuck Muckle, clown Avner “The Eccentric” Eisenberg.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:03:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Lou Reed 00:31:30 INSIDE BROADWAY 00:44:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Avner “The Eccentric” Eisenberg 01:41:00 Sponsors 01:53:00 DAVE SAYS BYE – Bonnie Franklin 01:58:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #059 – Disappearing Delis 02:04:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (clowns) 02:26:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Chuck Muckle 03:11:00 Friends 03:14:30 DAVE GOES OUT
March 2, 2013 Playlist: “Growing Up in Public” (00:03:30), “How Do You Think it Feels” (00:11:00), “The Blue Mask” (00:15:00) & “Satellite of Love” (00:23:00). “I’m Waiting for the Man” (00:06:30) & “I’ll Be Your Mirror” ({live} 00:20:00; The Velvet Underground). “Electricity” (00:41:30; Joni Mitchell). “Queen Jane Approximately” (02:05:00), “Shake Shake Mama” (02:10:30; Bob Dylan). “Like a Rolling Stone” (02:18:30; Bob Dylan & the Band). “Abandoned Love” (02:14:00). “Turn Another Corner” (02:27:00; Chuck Muckle). “Applause” (03:16:00; Applause Broadway cast w/ Bonnie Franklin on 1970 Tony Awards).
Avner EisenbergChuck MuckleBonnie FranklinLou ReedThe Stage Deli
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author and Hollywood expert Stephen Schochet.
Topics include: Hollywood stories, film, movie stars.
Segment originally aired Sept. 22, 2012 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Note: Farewell to our Friend of the Daverhood, Stephen Schochet, who passed June 4, 2015 at age 52.
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Dave Lefkowitz chats with his dad, PHILIP LEFKOWITZ
Topics include: dad’s birthday.
Segment aired Feb. 23, 2013 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our father of the Daverhood, Philip Lefkowitz, passed May 5, 2021.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author and Hollywood expert Stephen Schochet.
