Winehouse of Wax
Scrappily strung-out songstress Amy Winehouse has been immortalized in wax at Madame Tussands in London. The faux Winehouse is sharing exhibit space with Elvis Presley. In my twisted mind--in which museum exhi...
Estelle Getty: 1923-2008
Today we mourn the loss of a saucy, bitchy Jewess who, along with her golden-aged friends, put Miami on the map again. Early this morning, the actress Estelle Getty passed away at the age of 84. The crotchety...
Lego Than Life
Last week in Toronto, the Guinness Book of World Records documented the largest Lego tower ever erected. The tower ended up reaching 96 feet and using 465,000 bricks. Unlike one failed Jenga master, its creator...
Paparazzi Chic
Michael Kimmelman discusses contemporary Germany's fraught relationship with celebrity in his preview of the photo exhibit "Pigozzi and the Paparazzi" at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. Read N...
“Take My Wives, Please.”
Brooklyn-based artist Timothy Warner has created the funniest video I've seen all year. If he's looking for a name for his masked Muslim comic, may we suggest "Ayatollah Komedy"? ...
Diamond Days: Day Four
Today at the Mama Buzz Cafe at 2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Street in Oakland, CA:Ruthann Friedman Night Canopy Garrett Pierce The Chapin Sisters (pictured) ...
Diamond Days: Day Three
Day Three of Diamond Days starts at 5 p.m. at Ghost Town Gallery, 2519 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, CA.Ancestors Tweak Bird Ojos Rojos The Fucking Wrath What Cheer? Brigade Im a Gun Bridez Loving ThunderAleks a...
Diamond Days: Day Two
Day Two of Diamond Days kicks off at 7 p.m. at Ghost Town Gallery, 2519 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, CA. Thee Makeout Party The Moon Upstairs Tiny VipersPrinceton Fences (above) Greg Ashley No Bunny Mountainhood...
Call Your Mother…
She may be at this:Urban Cougar Road Rave in Daley Plaza, Chicago"An intermediate-to advanced-level in-line skate for ladies on the prowl visits sites home to wild animals and spots where older women can ...
Brains Over Braun
What do Heeb Magazine and American Idol have in common? Neither do extensive background checks. Case in point: last year's Heeb100 fashion honoree Apollo Braun. In a horiffic incident in Union Square yesterday,...
Orthodykes Movement
According to Haaretz, there's an Orthodox Lesbian scene developing in the Holy Land. Bat Kol is an organization of religious lesbian sisters doing it for themselves. This might seem fairly yawnwowthy to the a...
_New York Times_ Discovers That Some Jews Have Tattoos
A younger, more sarcastic Jewdar might have taken the NY Times piece on Jews and tattoos as an opportunity to feel superior, seeing as how it took the paper of record a good decade or so to record the trend. O...
