In Case You Missed Diamond Days
Diamond Days Fest 2008 started off with a mellow Thursday evening show at Mama Buzz cafe in Oakland, CA. Emily Jane White gave Cat Power and Emily Haines a run for their money with soulful vocals and power pian...
The _New Yorker_ Grows a Set
The venerable old pub used by hipsters everywhere to prove their intelligence ran a cover this week meant to skewer the retarded "Obama's a terrorist" crap, complete with Obama in a turban, burning a ...
Hagee Wire
Alright, alright, so some of you didn't appreciate the Boob Tube post. Whatever happened to blogs being stream-of-consciousness ramblings? This should be more appealing to you letter-of-the-law types. The delig...
Daniel Libeskind: The _Heeb_ Interview
by Amy Westervelt Polish-born, New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind first came to the attention of the architecture world when his Jewish museum in Berlin was unveiled in September 2001. Coincidentally, th...
Quotes for Quotes
First they launched a new entertainment (read "celebrity") division, then they got caught writing Britney Spears' obit early, now the A.P. is selling quotation licenses. I guess it's true that newspap...
You Know What We Did Last Summer
Bruce Weber models a fashion shoot after summer camp. Where have we seen that before?...
American Apparatus
Because running to two separate stores for your thigh-high leg warmers and your vibrator is one stop too many for any all-American girl, Dov Charney brings them to one shelf near you. Not sure how the Hitachi m...
Diamond Days Fest: Just One Month Away
On top of all the great bands Jay Diamond has tapped to play Diamond Days (Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Lazarus, Tweak Bird, Thee Makeout Party, Bridez, the list includes up to ten bands a night), we're now...
Where the Hose At?
While the rest of the world bitches about high gas prices or rakes in money off $135/barrel oil, Israel has quietly positioned itself to be the king of the next resource shortage: water. Living in the desert ...
In Case You Missed Comic-Con…
Starz has a show on tonight about Hollywood's obsession with comics. The narrative is a little blah (Richard Roeper should stick to sound byte reviews) but the interviews are sort of awesome. Stan Lee and Roger...
Barrack Back Muslim
I've got to say, I have been lazy about keeping up with political news the last month. But I have seen the daily headlines about Obama and his up and down relationship with Jewish voters. First there was the Re...
