Variety reports that Disney will be remaking The Diary of Anne Frank, with David Mamet writing and directing. The new screenplay will be based both on Frank's original diary and the play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich. While this news makes us a bit uneasy (do we really need another version?) Mamet's remake of The Winslow Boy was unexpectedly riveting, and his Jewish-themed Homicide threw some sparks too. more ›

We’ve read (and cried through) her diary and now we get a glimpse into her family photo album. “Anne Frank: A Photo Album” is on display at Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich. Funded from a state grant and brought in from the Anne Frank Center in New York, the exhibit features over 70 black and white photos taken by Anne’s father, Otto Frank, who was a talented amateur photographer. The exhibit chronicles Frank family life from when Anne was a baby all the way up until the family's last summer together at home. more ›

Spend enough time on the Internet and you’ll find someone making a Nazi metaphor, typically a flip comment about anyone inspiring enough wrath: strict parents, obtuse politicians, that guy who disagreed with you in an online chat. We can’t fathom how a blowhard political commentator or grandstanding Congressman merits comparison with a regime that killed millions of people in concentration camps, so we were relived when Senator Obama denounced this type of rhetoric in the... more ›