Studs Terkel: 1912-2008
It put a bit of a damper on my Halloween weekend when I found out that Studs Terkel had passed away at the age of 96. Terkel's writings deserve to be celebrated as one of the finest bodies of work any American...
_Night of the Living Jews_ Now Available on DVD
Prepare for the most violent and sexually explicit experience since your bris: After screenings at ScreamfestL.A., A Night of Horror International Film Festival and the Woodstock Film Festival, the first-ever J...
_This Ain’t the Munsters_: The _Heeb_ Review
By Oliver Noble Just in time for the Halloween, Hustler's porn homage to The Munsters, This Ain't the Munsters, aims for groin-area rigamortis, but the ratio of peanut butter cups to candy corn in this bag of t...
Oy, What a Spread
Those of you who weren't among the guests at our book party for photographer—and Heeb contributing editor—Naomi Harris can head to a Taschen store and pick up a copy of America Swings: Swinging Sex Lives of Eve...
Devito Honored at Israeli Film Festival
By David Kelsey At the opening reception for the 23rd Israeli Film Festival in New York, Danny Devito received a Lifetime Achievement Award. "I'm a sheigetz," Devito proclaimed, "you have to list...
_Rachel Getting Married_: The _Heeb_ Review
Chances are you still haven't seen Jonathan Demme's masterful Rachel Getting Married because it's in limited release. Worth the $12.50 though--it's the type of wedding story that takes you through every gruelin...
Not Your Bubbe’s Assasination Plot
How's this for a Fall fashion trend? It appears that the American public--regardless of background-- is having a go at fantasies of presidential assasination plots. Besides the case of the neo-Nazi plan in whic...
Pepi Ginsberg: Free MP3
Pepi Ginsberg is not the proprietor of a kosher burrito joint. She's one of our favorite singer/songwriters today. In a special offering to _Heeb_ readers, here is Ginsberg doing a brand new cover of another ba...
Stupid Show Offends People in Belgium
Plat Prefere, a Belgian cooking showthat highlights the favorite meals of the famous and dead, had to cancel an episode in which Hitler's preferred trout recipe was prepared athis Kehlsteinhaus, or Eagle's Nest...
Adolph Obama
Last month Sarah Silverman launched her plans to get out the Jewish vote in Florida. In Pennsylvania, the flavor of the month state for both candidates, a group calling itself the "Republican Federal Commi...
Matt Besser: The _Heeb_ Interview
By Alessandra Rizzotti It's not often you'll find a better urban dance tale than You Got Served, but Matt Besser has crafted just that in his musical stage show, Freak Dance: The Forbidden Dirty Boogaloo. Stage...
“Only in Israel!”
The notoriously campy and loud-mouthed, boxing promoter Don King, apparently is punch-drunk in his love for Israel, where he is a guest speaker at the Peres Center for Peace's Tenth Anniversary, which works to ...
