A Whisperer to the Stars on the Middle East Conflict

The actress Debra Messing had a question: How do you share commentary about the Israel-Hamas conflict online in ways that will best influence others? She posed the question a few months ago in a room with about 30 other Jewish activists, allies and influencers participating in a one-day workshop held in Los Angeles by the […]

Kwame Onwuachi Is a Whole New Kind of Celebrity Chef

For a chef who had opened a new restaurant an hour ago, Kwame Onwuachi looked very calm. The place is called Sirius, and it is a four-seat tasting counter inside another restaurant, Dogon. Mr. Onwuachi opened Dogon itself a month earlier, on Sept. 9, inside the Salamander Washington DC hotel. So really, he was overseeing […]

Filmmaker R.J. Cutler Is at the Center of a Debate: What Is a Documentary?

Real documentarians shine a light on the overlooked and the underprivileged. Real documentarians nudge the world forward. Real documentarians don’t get rich. At least that is what purists will tell you. Does that mean that R.J. Cutler isn’t a real documentarian? As a vérité filmmaker for the past 31 years, Mr. Cutler has tackled a […]