Julian Rubinstein December 27,1968 is an American journalist, documentary filmmaker and educator.
15 Facts About Julian Rubinstein
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Julian Rubinstein is best known for his longform magazine journalism and his non-fiction books, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, which chronicles the life of one of the world's most popular living folk heroes and The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood, a multi-generational story of activism and gang violence in a northeast Denver community.
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Julian Rubinstein is the son of a doctor named David Rubinstein and an aerospace engineer named Diane Rubinstein.
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The family moved to Denver from New York City in 1971 when David Rubinstein accepted a residency at the University of Colorado Medical School.
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Diane Julian Rubinstein worked much of her career on government contracts, including missile defense, and retired from Raytheon.
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Julian Rubinstein began his career as an agate clerk in the Washington Post Sports section, and wrote for the Sports and Style section, where he did music reviews and features.
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In 1998, Julian Rubinstein went to work for CBS Sports at the Nagano Winter Olympics as the co-editor-in-chief of a daily publication.
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International news stories reported that the tribe had the highest suicide rate in the world, but Julian Rubinstein discovered evidence that the chief was murdering his own people.
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Julian Rubinstein wrote what has been called the best profile of tennis player John McEnroe.
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Julian Rubinstein chronicled the Hells Angels war with a rival biker gang, the Rock Machine, in Canada, and profiled the Hasidic international ecstasy kingpin, Jacob "Cookie" Orgad, a story selected for Best American Crime Writing.
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In 2004, Julian Rubinstein published his first non-fiction book Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, about the Hungarian bank robber and folk hero Attila Ambrus.
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Julian Rubinstein appeared on NPR's All Things Considered with Michel Martin.
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The Denver Gazette wrote that Julian Rubinstein's film was "a documentary that the most powerful people in Denver don't want to see and don't want you to see, referring to The Holly project as "Denver's very own Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Julian Rubinstein worked as an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University, and as a senior producer for the school's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
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Julian Rubinstein has worked with at-risk youth at Groundwork in Brooklyn, and at Friends For Youth in Colorado.