Mandel/Shultz Maven's Nest:
Movies-TV-Music-Jewish Women & 9/11 in Popular Imagination
Fiction & History Reading Groups
Mandel & PHAIR & Shultz Families



Reel Life--Flicks Pix: Nora Lee Mandel's 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; Ogling Teens and 20Somethings; 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: Nora Lee Mandel's 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

Lilith Watch: Critical Guide to Jewish Women on TV, in the Flicks, and in Pop Music Nora Lee Mandel's Reviews and Commentary

Guide to Radio Not Just For Listening: Music Tips Nora Lee Mandel's 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 Nora Lee Mandel's Reviews and Commentary on the Interpretation of 9/11 in Photography, Poetry, Movies, TV Fiction, Song, and Literature -- and now the rebuilding and the wars being fought in our name.

The Grandfather of Spit- Dr. Irwin D. Mandel or "The General of the Salivation Army." Plus "The Image of Dentists In Contemporary Culture" (with Nora Lee Mandel's TV, movie and even music additions)

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 and how namesakes carry memories on. 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!

Harold M. Shultz, Esq., retired after achieving the goal of the Metropolitan Leadership Program we both matriculated at the former Bronx campus of NYU and now dispenses expertise as a Senior Fellow at the Citizens Housing and Planning Council:
Eminent Domain: Round Three
Fallout from Roberts vs. Tishman (but it was in The New York Times 5/27/2010 where his commentary was: "This is the ultimate case about rich people with problems that I’m not sure we should care about.")
Debt Threat: Saving Multifamily Rental Housing from Zombie Mortgages and the follow-up Riverton Apartments Sold at Auction
Policy Briefing: Fresh Zoning Text Amendment
Starrett City: Paradise Lost?, its J-51 Tax Benefits, Stuy Town J-51 Decision Reversed and the follow-up Court of Appeals Delivers Final Word on Stuy Town
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


Wedding of the Week 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 6/26/2010)



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