20 · The Music Issue

May 6, 2010

Bad Kissers By the time you're a grown-up, you should know what you're doing with your lips and your tongue and your hands and your body when you're kissing someone. And if you're not popular and have had hard...

Urban Kvetch: Airplane Touch Screens

May 6, 2010

Airplane Touch Screens Who's the genius that came up with the idea of touch screens on the back of airline seats? On top of the empty stomach I have from not being fed and the anxiety I'm feeling from only car...

Urban Kvetch: Uncle Solly’s Death

May 6, 2010

Uncle Solly's Death You know what? Uncle Solly didn't "just know" to expire the Friday before Presidents DAy weekend so that your second cousins from Rancho Palos Verde, California, would be able to make it to...

Urban Kvetch: Scooped-Out Bagels

May 6, 2010

Scooped-Out Bagels If God meant for us to scoop out the insides of our bagels, he wouldn't have designed the bagel with a hole in it already. IF you're really concerned that you're going to get fat from eating...

Erik Parker

jessie

April 21, 2009

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Stationed in front of a large canvas, holding the tiniest brush I've ever seen, one of Erik Parker's studio assistants paints neon yellow saliva dripping from the mouth of an ornate, psychologically disturbed h...

Eric Yahnker

April 15, 2009

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Eric Yahnker's left forearm is permanently marked by what he calls his "Heebraham" tattoo—a portrait of Abraham Lincoln with a Star of David resting just below the beard. "Whenever a gentile asks me what it tak...

Gimme Shelter

March 24, 2009

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Nearly every morning, California filmmaker Laura Bialis and the rest of Sderot's residents wake to a female voice chanting, "Tzeva adom." The words echo through the streets as the inhabitants of the small Israe...

Jerry Heller

March 24, 2009

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Jerry Heller is the business mastermind behind the second great paradigm shift in modern pop music. In 1967, it was the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that defined the rock music era. In 19...

Warm Lobster Salad

March 24, 2009

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We Are the Fury's percussionist Stephan Lublin quit touring with the band to work with a new kind of drumstick; he now attends culinary school in Paris and blogs at MySpace.com/TheFoodComa. Here's one of his fa...

The Six-Year Itch

March 24, 2009

If he didn't have his latest album as hard evidence, the affable DJ, producer, composer, and remixer Sam Spiegel (a.k.a. Squeak E. Clean) might sound a bit delusional when he tells me how jam-packed with top ar...

50 Cent: Blood in the Sand

March 24, 2009