Mandel/Shultz Maven's Nest:
Movies-TV-Music-Jewish Women & 9/11 in Pop Culture-Fiction & History Reading-
PHAIR & Shultz Family
Reel Life--Flicks Pix: Reviews with Annual Best Of the Years and Recommendations for
Chick Flicks; Hurrah for Grown-ups: Movies For the Middle-Aged At Heart; Movies as Medicine: Masterpiece Theater; For the Music (or Dancing) ; New York New York: It's A Helluva Town; ; Noir Night Out; Popcorn Eaters; Romeo and Juliet Across the Ethnic Divide; Sci Fi and Fantasy: From A Distaff POV; And then there's Russell Crowe: The Movies (and more) 
Television: Remote Patrol: Reviews and commentary as
Quality Television; The Hall of Dames; The Hunk-o-Meter: Televisa Para Planchar; and, The Wire: Best Novel on TV episode & music guide
The Lilith Watch: Critical Guide to Jewish Women on TV, in the Flicks, and in Pop Music Reviews and commentary
Radio Not Just For Listening: Music Tips Reviews and commentary
And then there's RUSSELL CROWE: The Music (with commentaries on TOFOG)
The World Trade Center In Memoriam In Sight and In Sound: From New Yorkers' POV Reviews and commentary on the Interpretation of 9/11 in Photography, Poetry, Movies, TV Fiction, Song, and Literature -- and now the rebuilding
What do you think? You get social academic brownie points for deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture?--Stephen King,
upon receiving the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, 11/19/2003
Fiction Book Club: Annotated Contemporary Fiction Reading List
History Reading Group: Annotated Urban/Ethnic/Women's History Reading List
So Nora was inspired to make a pilgrimage in Chicago to Jane Addams's Hull House: 
PHAIR Family Circle Read the history of the Cousins' Club, how namesakes carry memories on, and Cousins give us your links! Report of the 2009 mini-meeting -- e-mail us with suggestions for the next!
The Shultz Family Alpert-Epstein-Shultz’s (and we throw in Bellers and Millers from the grandmater's side) You can link to us and we'll link to you!
Grandma is a Poet, 
as well an independent scholar on poet HD. From the Poet’s Corner to a selection of her poems, you can read: her award-winning prose poem (scroll down), her poems on Yiddish untranslatable words, ekphrastic art appreciation, tribute to Rauschenberg's Goat, and in the formal formats of villanelle and ethere and sonnet On Reading Edna St. Vincent Millay While Watching CNN, prose poem Too Many of Them Out There Anyhow, They Said, and prose light. See The Mollusc World with dancing jellyfish video illustration and Sandbar (and hear her reading via MP3s), as well as hear her via Real Player in read and discuss her 9/11 tribute poems. Scroll down to the May 19th posting for her Still Life with the blogger’s commentary.
Here's her ABC POETICS
Anagrams bungle consonance;
dactylic end-rhymes feminize georgics;
heroic iambs jostle kennings;
limericks' metrical nonsense occasions pantoum quatrains;
sonnets' tails uncouple villanelles; whiteout x's yawp's zenith.
The Grandfather of Spit- Dr. Irwin D. Mandel
Or "The General of the Salivation Army." Plus the only place on the web to read the complete article on "The Image of Dentists In Contemporary Culture"!
Harold, Esq., 
retired from having achieved the goal of the Metropolitan Leadership Program we were both in at the former Bronx campus of NYU to be a Senior Fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council ruminating on Starrett City: Paradise Lost?, its J-51 Tax Benefits, Stuy Town J-51 Decision Reversed, Prevailing Wisdom: The Potential Impact of Prevailing Wages on Subsidized Housing, The EPA’s New Layer of Lead Based Paint Rules, How To Collect Water and Sewer Bills, and more on water and sewer financing in Liquid Assets.
New York Times, March 8, 2009
With legal commentary
Avi's workin’ in the 'hood (well, his lab’s fume ventilation system) catalyzing towards an inorganic chemistry PhD at Northwestern University.
(updated 9/17/2009)
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