And yet it's also something many of us don't think about until we are hard up against it, confronting the impossible life choices that materialize when you live in a society with a lack of ...

Nostalgia sentimentalizes memory. In moderation, it’s a harmless diversion from the central yearning of Jewish song and of Jewish memory, the acute remembering of tomorrow, of what can yet be.

In the 1970s and 80s, when Quinn was making his mark in New York, the city had more than its share of mean streets. And he has a certain nostalgia for those years.

Ike Holter’s “Hit the Wall” attempts to dramatize the Stonewall Riots but is done in by its cavalier lack of historical accuracy, stereotyped characters, and emotional histrionics.