Urban Kvetch: Rabbis in Kilts
Rabbis in Kilts
What fun-loving Orthodox rabbi doesn't want to frolic around in a skirt every once in a while? You've got to give it up for these free-balling, wild and crazy Scotsmen. Malted whiskey, bagpipes...
Urban Kvetch: “Impressions Under Water” by Leni Riefenstahl
Impressions Under Water by Leni Riefenstahl
Hitler's little media darling will soon release a 45-minute documentary about life in the Indian Ocean, with footage taken from over two thousand dives. Riefenstahl'...
Urban Kvetch: France
France
Tourism down in the land of waifs and dog shit? Ah, gay Paris ...
Urban Kvetch: Cleveland
Cleveland
Cleveland deftly illustrates how a city can funnel millions of dollars into subsidizing fancy new sports arenas (at the expense of little things like, oh, city schools and public housing), but when a...
Urban Kvetch: The Jewish Roll
The Jewish Roll
The Japanese cats over at Crazy Fish restaurant in Los Angeles are just calling it what it is. No need to gloss things over by calling it a "Philadelphia Roll" or a "Brooklyn Roll" like other r...
Nazi Punk Dress Up
Bomber jackets and combat boots are so 1997. In true late-‘90s teen movie fashion, Germany's modern day neo-Nazi has gotten a makeover, emerging more stylish than ever and harder to spot. Because the law crac...
Just a Gigolo
Until his 1999 retirement, Shai Shahar was one of Europe's leading gigolos and the first male escort ever to exhibit himself in an Amsterdam window display. Shai, who grew up in Philadelphia and moved to Israel...
D-I-Y Lox
This recipe is not just a great take on a classic—it's also a terrific way to make your New Year's resolutions stick. Trying to save money? Make your own lox instead of buying it at the overpriced gourmet store...
Robo-Schtupp
The year is 2020—the massage parlors are empty. Millions of dejected prostitutes have gone back to school. And Hasidic Jews all over the world are achieving sexual fulfillment within the confines of their own h...
Grave New World
Sitting down at the table with Howard Bloom, Mitchell Joachim, Daniel Pinchbeck and Douglas Rushkoff is worse than sitting down with your grandmother. At least your grandmother feeds you after she frightens you about where the world is headed.
Heaven’s Rejects
For many Christians, the Apocalypse represents a time when their beloved Savior will return and bring them to the big line dance in the sky; for the rest of us, the idea of "the end of days" sounds a little mor...
Shore Thing
I'm taking a piss in the foulest men's room in Coney Island when Artemis Pebdani bursts in. Apparently unconcerned that I might consider the act of urination to be a private moment, the actress pulls a lighter ...
