If You Build It
"I first went to Israel in 1959 and I have very fond memories of it," Richard Meier tells me from his office in New York City. "I never thought I'd actually have the opportunity to work there."
Thanks to the...
Trouble at the Rosenkrantz Ranch
It was June of 1985, but when Robert Rosenkrantz fired ten bullets into high school classmate Steve Redman, it felt like something out of the Wild West. Twenty-three years later, Rosenkrantz is out of prison. Allen Salkin remembers a murder that grabbed the attention of a California town and the gay community nation-wide.
Six For Five
When Montreal-based artist Pat Hamou came across an old lineup photo of Murder Inc. hitman Abe "Kid Twist" Reles in an old New York Daily News, he was mesmerized. He began researching figures from the golden er...
Call Me James
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.
From Prussia, With Love
Back in 1906, a ne'er do well Prussian cobbler assembled something resembling an officer's uniform, commandeered a handful of soldiers, and marched them off to the nearby town of Kopenick where he seized the to...
Bridez to Perform at Diamond Days on July 19
The kind people at Gifted Children Records have provided us with an MP3 from Bridez, the loud and trashed-out San Francisco band playing Diamond Days on Saturday, July 19 at Ghost Town Gallery. The three piece ...
Daniel Libeskind: The _Heeb_ Interview
by Amy Westervelt Polish-born, New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind first came to the attention of the architecture world when his Jewish museum in Berlin was unveiled in September 2001. Coincidentally, th...
Matador Records 5, _Heeb_ 1
After a brutal six innings filled with strikeouts, errors and assbackward baserunning, _Heeb_ redeemed itself in the final hour of this week's whiffleball game at Central Park in Manhattan (sponsored by Saucony...
My Favorite Yenta
Renta-Yenta is a new Yiddish personal assistant service that promises to "help you to get everything done without having to do everything by yourself". Everything? Can these yentas give you unsolicited input on...
What I Do When I’m Supposed to Be…
Sometimes I waste time (gasp!) when I'm supposed to be working. Craigslist provides a plethora of interesting distractions. Not to outgawk Gawker or anything, I urge you to check out this particular personal ti...
Fedorable?
Evidently, the fedora is back. A favorite of celebs like Britney Spears, Johnny Depp, and Al Capone, the fedora seems to be crowning the crowns of male and female alike. (Oddly enough, however, I've seen neithe...
“Please Sir, Kug I Have Some More?”
Yiddishkayt LA recently hosted their second Kugl Kukh-off. The contest was judged by LA Weekly food critic Jonathan Gold, restauranteur and KCRW's "Good Food" host Evan Kleiman (don't miss her Angeli ...
