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Jake Kasdan: The Heeb Interview

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 a...
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Paglia Attacks!

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...
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Kosher or Treyf

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. ...
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Bobby Fischer Loses Final Game

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.or...
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Salvation on Wheels

"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 h...
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Return of the Deli

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...
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Evolution Revelation

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 chan...
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_Juno_: The _Heeb_ Review

*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, alth...