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Comic artist Joe Infurnari gives us Working Girl Golem.

Yael Naim does in fact have a MacBook Air Notebook, and yes, it was free. Apple gave it to her because she recorded the perfect song to launch its revolutionary laptop. You know the commercial—it's the one in w...

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...

The first time rock journalist Steve Bloom sat down with James Brown, the Godfather of Soul reamed his ass. That was before Brown found out that Bloom was a Jew.

By Pamela Chelin In the late '90s, writer/director Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) was the "it" boy of New York's downtown scene. To escape the spotlight, he moved to London and then to Paris w...

It's easy to mistake Etgar Keret for light reading. With Keret, four pages is an epic tale—most of his stories weigh in at five or six paragraphs. But brevity and levity are not the same, and nowhere is this mo...

Fanny Brice, Molly Picon and Theda Bara were pioneering Jewish stars of film's Silent and Golden Eras. We imagine them as BFFs in these gorgeous fashion photos by Doron Gild.

The most highly anticipated comic book in years (aside from the sequel to Frank Miller's Dark Knight) doesn't feature superheroes, nor is it published by Marvel or DC. No, the title that's got graphic novel-hea...

After the success of The Passion of the Christ, critics forecasted a Second Coming of Christian blockbusters. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the rapture. Eric Kohn investigates.