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Let's Wrestle, In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge Records)On their MySpace, Let's Wrestle describes their music as '"Grunge/Salsa/Dutch/Pop,'" but this debut record is more accessible than you'd i...

The Wall Street Journal confirmed today that Bernie Madoff, the badass Ponzi wizard, was assaulted by a fellow inmate back in December when he was treated for a broken nose and fractured ribs. Back then, both M...

New book Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do That Guarantee They Won't Be Dating or Having Sex seems to feature most of the cast of Look at this Fucking Hipster. (Lemondrop) Here's No. 312 - teaching your alpaca how...

Hot tubs are awesome. Time machines are even better. Sadly, when you smash the two together in movie form, you get the season's shoddy answer to The Hangover. Like last year's frat boy fest, Hot Tub Time Machi...

(video after the jump) While Rick Sanchez chatted politely with Wolf Blitzer about the current US-Israel tensions, followers of his Twitter feed chimed in with these insightful points:Beau1969 believes that &qu...

When Bob Fingerman envisions the future, he sees a planet with mutants and a healthy supply of Slim Jims. As From the Ashes, his latest graphic novel, begins, Fingerman and wife Michele stand amidst the rubble....

Ever since last week's New York Times profile, Gary Krupp has gotten a lot of attention. (Even the title was shocking: "Wartime Pope Has a Huge Fan: A Jewish Knight") While everyone else in the Jewish world spi...

Knighted ladies man and former Beatle Paul McCartney is backing a bill proposed by Israeli animal rights organization Let the Animals Live to ban all fur trade in Israel. If passed, Israel will be the first cou...

Breakfast of Champions: The lady gunning to become to the world's fattest woman starts each day by sucking the "soft buttery bacon caramel" out of the new Vosges dark chocolate egg. (The World's Best ...

Kind of ironic that it wasn't a phone interview, huh? Or is it too soon to make the can't-talk jokes? No matter: This was part of a dork project I took on in 1993, when I interviewed 22 film critics and asked f...

Sarah ordered a $16 dollar glass of Bordeaux - "For the tannins," she said - before counting off her latest glamorous projects: interviews with famous actors, a travel piece on Iceland, a film script that's pro...