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Meet the next hundred Jews we think you'll be hearing more about in the not-so-distant future.

Our nation's capital may have the highest per capita number of white guys in charcoal Brooks Brothers suits, but it's also got a vibrant indigenous scene if you know where to look. So forget that trip you took ...

Unless between the time I'm writing this and a certain mid-January day he decides to tie a bandana around his head, place a buck knife between his teeth, parachute into the hinterlands of northwest Pakistan and...

Picture yourself at a barbeque with 50 folks who are chowing down on hot dogs, sipping beer and engaging in small talk. Now picture yourself having sex with them. Or, if you're not feeling that adventurous, pic...

Jamie Lynn Sigler picks at a roll made of pizza dough at Angeli Caffé in West Hollywood as we discuss her upcoming return to HBO on the fifth season of Entourage. Sigler plays "a version of" herself for three ...

Our presidential wannabees aren't the only ones going after the Spanish-speaking demographic. We asked chef Morgan Jarrett to share a recipe for all of you who tire of that same ol' beefy pot roast flavor and c...

There is no way David Berman could have known the path he would set himself on in merely naming his band. As a young man at the University of Virginia, Berman began writing his songs: soliloquies left on friend...

What do you get when you toss Godzilla, Popeye, Dante, Zappa, Picasso, Kirby, Sun Ra and Philip K. Dick into a pot and stir? A mad brew that is artist Gary Panter's outrageous oeuvre. Panter, a prolific painter...

When Montreal-based artist Pat Hamou came across an old lineup photo of Murder Inc. hitman Abe "Kid Twist" Reles in an old New York Daily News, he was mesmerized. He began researching figures from the golden er...

It was June of 1985, but when Robert Rosenkrantz fired ten bullets into high school classmate Steve Redman, it felt like something out of the Wild West. Twenty-three years later, Rosenkrantz is out of prison. Allen Salkin remembers a murder that grabbed the attention of a California town and the gay community nation-wide.