Regina Spektor Smiles In Tel Aviv
Regina Spektor smiled at me. I swear. Me and my Moze were waiting outside the
Barby Club in Tel Aviv for Spektor’s Sunday night concert. Israelis
were sucking on cigarettes before the show. Uncharacteristically,
they (we) obeyed Regina’s request that the audience not smoke.
Standing next to a wall, time slowed and she passed by and looked at
me. I smiled, she smiled. And the rest of the world around us didn’t
even notice her grey hoodie as she walked by with the opening act
Only Son to the backstage.
Her show was phenomenal. Those tracks of hers that I couldn’t get
into finally made sense. She sang the audiences’ favorite hits with
believable emotion and tension. She made me cry with happiness and
sadness when she performed “Samson” and I loved her even more when
she thanked us Israelis for making her feel like home.
“It is dreamlike for me to be here tonight,” she said, telling us
that her first and last trip to Israel 10 years ago was the reason
she started singing.
If you Google her name, you will see that the Russian-born Jewish
pianist, signer/songwriter is stealing hearts around the globe. She
didn’t only steal mine, I learned, but my boyfriends too:
“That Regina, she’s good,” said Moze, pretty much speechless … “I
would like to, you know, invite her for a coffee or something. Just
to chat. [pause] With you.”
“Yeah right.”
“No really… she seems interesting.”
“Anyway,” I said, “She’d probably be more interested in being my
friend. She did, after all, smile right at me.”
“What. At you?” Moze uttered in disbelief. “She looked straight into
my eyes and smiled at me!”
Israel in Taiwan
We posted about Violet here last month.
She’s back – in a large way. The Israel-dwelling teen who blogs in Chinese will be appearing in a popular Taiwanese primetime program: “World’s #1″. In it Violet’ll be guiding the people of Taiwan through Israel’s Jaffa, Jerusalem, The Dead Sea, etc. – showing them what this place is all about.
Thanks Fili, for the heads-up.
Shmatte Fashion
It’s not often that a designer can send a bona fide garbage bag down his runway and make it work. But such was the curious beauty behind Alexandre Herchcovitch’s fall show… Style.com
Alexandre Herchcovitch is a young Brazilian (Jewish) designer and he’s part of the
new runway trend called Shmatte Chic .
Not since the days of Madonna wearing Jean-Paul Gauthier’s hasidic garb has tznius (modesty) been so hot. Hipster t-shirts are one story, and the rise of shmatte chic is another …Jewlicious
More on the trend here and here.
Relinquishing
Here Little Boy…You take over for a while. Hee hee. It’ll be our little secret
PURIM SAMEACH!!!!
Love,
Your Friends at the Israelity Neighborhood Pub
Put Up Yer Dukes
This one was just too good to pass by: Parliament member Yoram Marciano (aka “Boom Boom Marciano”) got into it with a nightclub security guard. Fists, punches, blows.
Scene: Birthday party
Locale: Herzeliya Night Club
Details: Boom Boom attempts to leave club through entrance. Security guards give it a thumbs down pointing Boom Boom towards exit. Boom Boom goes ballistic. Police get called. Details murky.
Does it really matter if you go out through the “IN” door? Apparently so. Get your details here.
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