A Bad Day for Barack
Is it possible that the "articulate and bright and clean":http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/index.html Barack Obama has already fallen off? The Illinois Senator was served a one-two combination...
Kasting Couch
Earlier this month, "_The New York Times_":http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E13FA3F540C708CDDAF0894DF404482 reported that "_Sammy and Kim_,":http://mog.com/Afficionado/blog_post/82374 the Sa...
Irony, Half-Off
...And if the mainstream news media has it hard, just how do you think independent publishers are doing? _Nymag.com_'s Intelligencer "somewhat gleefully writes":http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/06/save_dave_eg...
Storytelling
Heeb's critically acclaimed Storytelling series presents Jewish stories from an ever-changing crew of performers across the country. We now give you Heeb _Storytelling in its online incarnation. Check back here...
…But They’ll Never Take Our Freedom
At last night's New York premiere of _A Mighty Heart_ Angelina Jolie's lawyer made all reporters sign an agreement stating that they would not ask any personal questions.
"FoxNews":http://www.foxnews.com/st...
They’re Grrrreaaat!
The _NY Times_ "reports":http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/business/media/14kellogg-web.html that The Kellogg Company announced today that it will phase out advertising its products to children under age 12 unl...
Hitchens on Hilton
On _Slate_ today, Christopher Hitchens "debates":http://www.slate.com/id/2168128/nav/tap3/ the ultimate question: Which is worse, Paris Hilton or the media? And brace yourself, Hitchens comes out in favor of th...
Boys 2 Men?
I can't even begin to estimate how many people have asked me to introduce them to the Beastie Boys since we "interviewed and photo'd them back in 2003":http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/43. One guy want...
The Death of Reilly
To all of my fans who have been desperately seeking sustenance from my customary _joie de vivresection_ of all things entertaining, I must apologize for my absence, but I have recently suffered the loss of a lo...
You Say Potato
Gawker "decries":http://gawker.com/news/withdrawal-overdose/which-east-village-institution-is-the-next-bank-branch-268123.php the loss of East Village institutions to a wave of corporate bank openings. But how ...
And Speaking of Charles Nelson Reilly’s Death…
I would have loved to have interviewed "Richard Rorty":http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/ as our next "Honorary _Heeb_," but the great philosopher died Friday. Rorty was one of the first and greatest of t...
