Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s the Christmas gift that …
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Almost three decades since its …
Around 500,000 people were murdered in the Romani Holocaust, or Parajmos, yet their stories and those of survivors are rarely ever heard. “It was a very immediate response.” The speaker eventually became the Deathless Woman, who, at the start of the documentary, rises spectrally from her grave, filled with anger and hatred, to become the film’s Romani narrator and guide …
For 22 years, Mortimer's restaurant stood as a high-society saloon on the corner of Lexington and East 75th Street in New York City. Now almost three decades after the restaurant closed abruptly upon Bernbaum's death in 1998, a new book titled, Mortimer's: A Moment in Time, by documentary filmmaker Robin Baker Leacock, offers a glimpse into the clubby zeitgeist of …