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 piano skills, backed by her pal Josh on stand-up bass, while Ben Becker channeled Will Oldham with...

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 flag beneath a portrait of Osama bin Laden and giving his AK-47-strapped wife a "terrorist fist jab". Apparently, some pea-brains are...

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 delightfully nuts Reverend Hagee, who we’ve mentioned before in reference to his Christians for Israel initiative – a program that embodies the insult-masked-as-flattery so often associated...

Sometimes you’re just walking down the street and you see a rack so nice, you can’t help but reach out and punch it. Or there are those times when you’re hanging out with your girlfriends, one challenges the other to a boob slap-off, and the good times roll on from there. Oh! Oh! And then...

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, this was just before the World Trade Center was leveled, which eventually led to the commission, which would garner Libeskind worldwide fame. Although his winning...

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 newspapers are going the way of the dodo if they’re really that hard up.The lowest price: $12.50 for 5-25 words, which is a nice slap...

Bruce Weber models a fashion shoot after summer camp. Where have we seen that before?

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 magic wand fits into the American-made, no sweat shops motif, but we’re sure the Dov-ster will figure it...

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 officially on for a pork cook-off with the foodies over at Chow.com who have no idea what...

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 will make you pretty good at dealing with water shortages, and now that parts of the U.S., Australia...

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 Corman talking about the first, never-released Fantastic Four, Ron Perlman looking so much more like Hellboy in real life...

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 Reverend Wright thing, then Bush in front of the Knesset, then Obama’s talk of negotiating with...