Crunchy pickles and live music: Zoyres, Blank Tapes

Picklefest West is upon us. If you like summer cucumbers soaked in brine and Eastern European-style music, this fest was made for you. It all goes down at 8 p.m. this Thursday, July 29 at Viracocha, 998 Valencia in San Francisco.…

Amy X Neuburg celebrates the summer solstice

The ever-inventive, inimitable Amy X Neuburg will participate in a summer solstice celebration at Chapel of the Chimes this coming Monday, June 21.

Neuburg, an experimental Jewish Bay Area musician, will perform solo voice works with live electronics during…

What if your favorite novelist edited your newspaper? Readers of Ha’aretz find out.

What a cool experiment — handing over editorial duties of Ha'aretz for one day to the country's most celebrated novelists.

For the second time, Ha'aretz published its special edition June 2 in honor of Israel's book week. While most of the section was planned well in advance, Ha'aretz editors…

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You know how sometimes there are actual DAYS in between blog posts here in Jew Tunes land and you just can't take it? You want MORE Jew Tunes but you don't know where to look?

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Diwon mixes free “mixtape”

Ah the ancient art of the mixtape. Or should I say, the forgotten art of the mixtape. There once was a time when no expression of love was concrete without the inclusion of a tape full of meaningful tunes, recorded artfully…

Comix Friday: This weekend in S.F. - the Alternative Press Expo!

It's finally here - APE weekend is upon us!

APE, aka the Alternative Press Expo, is a fantastic San Francisco comic convention dedicated to alternative and self-published comix and independent publishers. For an alterna-comix fiend like me, this is…