By Pamela Chelin "Until a week ago, I didn’t have a wife," says writer/director Jake Kasdan while drinking a fruit smoothie and munching on a tuna melt at the 101 Cafe in Los Angeles. It’s four days after Kasdan’s wedding to long-term girlfriend singer/songwriter Inara George and he’s about to be leaving for his honeymoon....

Less than a month ago, StuffWhitePeopleLike.wordpress.com debuted, declaring coffee the #1 thing adored by white people. According to the writer, "Yes, it’s true that asians like iced coffee and people of all races enjoy it. But I promise you that the first person at your school to drink coffee was a white person… They are...

In this week’s installment of WTF items, Camille Paglia gives an interview to reputable news outlet US Weekly in response to Hillary Clinton’s 60 Minutes appearance.<!–break–> Here at Heeb we thoroughly enjoy Ms. Paglia’s take-no-prisoners antics (She hates The Sopranos! Who hates The Sopranos? Cultural criticism needs this lady.) and these latest comments are gold....

By Pamela Chelin “I found my home here," says House MD writer Len Dick, sitting at his desk in his office on the L.A. Fox lot where the TV series is shot. "I love it." It’s less than a week after the writers’ strike officially ended and the 12 House writers are back at work,...

We were recently informed that Gawker videographer Alex Goldberg shot a little something at our Heeb 100 launch party back in October. Watch and see if you can spot any stereotyping errors.

Chess prodigy, Icelandic citizen, anti-Semite (and half-Jew) Bobby Fischer has passed away. To reminisce about his epic showdown with Soviet Boris Spassky, check out the wikipedia “entry”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_%28musical%29 on _Chess: The Musical_, which was loosely based on that epic Cold War battle in 1972.

“Dad will be so pissed you wrecked the car while he was away!” “No, I have an awesome idea. I’ll just take it to the body shop and get it fixed and repainted and pretend it was a present. You know how much he loves “The Rebbe”:http://curbed.com/archives/2008/01/10/pimp_my_moshiach_mobile.php#more!”

Yesterday was the official sausage-cutting for the brand-new uptown incarnation of the famed 2nd Avenue Deli. In case you were too busy to make a pilgrimage (like “we were”:http://heebmagazine.com/blog/view/461), _Nymag.com_ has a “video”:http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/12/video_overheard_at_the_2nd_ave.html#gs-int of patron reactions so you can vicariously enjoy some matzoh ball soup until the line shrinks to a more manageable size.

Looks like evolution is moving “much more rapidly”:http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1043228620071210 than our high-school biology teachers predicted. Researchers say that “beneficial genetic changes have appeared at a rate roughly 100 times higher in the past 5,000 years than at any previous period of human evolution.” And “about 7 percent of human genes are undergoing rapid, relatively recent evolution.”...

*by Andrew Marantz* I have to confess: when I first saw the trailer for _Juno_, I thought it would be a _Knocked Up_ knock-off. Well, blame that misleading trailer, because _Juno_ is its own movie. And, although I liked _Knocked Up_, _Juno_ is far better. Yes, both are indie comedies about headstrong heroines who have...