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Hasidic reggae phenom Matisyahu (or, as the Ticketmaster electronic voice calls him, Matis-aya-who), plays New York’s Central Park Summer Stage tomorrow to promote his new album, Light. Matisyahu, who follows in the great tradition of Jews in reggae, told Boston Music Spotlight over the weekend that Light includes “electronic stuff, there’s more organic, singer-songwriter kind ...

Yesterday was many things: Father’s Day, the first day of summer, and, not insignificantly, the day Israeli tourism officials spent somewhere around $150,000 to set up a mock Tel Aviv beach in New York’s Central Park, to celebrate the Israeli city’s centennial. We were a touch skeptical of the marketing effort—there seems something a little ...

Tel Aviv is turning 100 this year, and to celebrate that birthday the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Centennial Administration will plant what its press release calls an “authentic Mediterranean beachfront” in New York’s Central Park. So how do you turn a blooming place into a desert? By trucking in 30 tons of (local) sand to cover a ...