Kosher Curry
Is Natalie Portman making a concerted effort to get steamier or is it just me? Not that I'm complaining—that good vegetarian next door routine was getting tired. The Namesake director Mira Nair is making anothe...
Princess Leia and the Recycled Gold Bikini
Okay, Heeb may not be a gossip site, but this one's too good to pass up. So I get a call from a friend last night that she just saw Carrie Fisher spend three hours in an eco-friendly home and gift store buying...
Beauty and the Beast, Hollywood-Style
Hollywood loves pretty women made up to look like ugly women. Especially pretty women impersonating real, live ugly women. First Charlize Theron in Monster and now Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose have won be...
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco: The _Heeb_ Review
Earlier this week, we got a super early preview of the new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (The press tour's not until mid-March and the museum doens't open until June 8th so, seriously, Heeb is sp...
Waiter hater
A few weeks ago, I took some foodie types to my new favorite San Francisco restaurant, ready to delight them with my neighborhood find. Sadly, the boss lady had the flu and when the cat's away the mice will get...
What the Chuck?
Being mostly writers ourselves, we were behind the writers in their strike. They seemed like the underdogs. Poor little slaves typing their fingers to the bone while the big shot studio execs patted each other ...
Canuck Attah Adonai
Michael Seifert, a Canadian citizen of Ukrainian origin who also operates under the alias "The Beast of Bolzano" is being extradited from Canada to Italy today to face charges he was convicted of in 2...
PoMophobia
People will put up with just about anything. Apparently so will an audience. Noise rock duo People teamed up with Williamsburg faves These Are Powers for a monthly Adolescent Sessions show this past weekend at ...
La Persona Scelta
More than 80 Gambino family mafiosos including Robert Epifania, a.k.a. "Bobby the Jew", were indicted today for pretty much every crime you can think of - murder, narcotics distribution, loansharking,...
Bitter Francaise
This is just weird. Remember all that hooplah last year about Suite Francaise? Yeah, we didn't read it either, but we heard it was good. It was written by Irene Nemirovsky, a Ukrainian Jew living in France, dur...
Huckabee and Goliath?
What is with everyone, including Huckabee himself, referring to the Huckabee campaign in David and Goliath terms? Okay, maybe he doesn't have Mitt's millions or McCain's war record, but this guy has the religio...
