Issues

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Marxist Theory

It's no coincidence that Samm Levine's character on the fabulous but now defunct television series Freaks and Geeks was obsessed with the comedic masterwork of the Marx Brothers. Growing up a severe asthmatic, ...
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The Good Fight

Noa Sattath isn't afraid to cry. Though Israeli and hardly unfamiliar with Orthodox Jerusalem's animosity toward all things gay, the 30-year-old lesbian activist has been known to shed a tear or two. Her mos...
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Kosher Butchers

James Toback's screenplays trail the depressing lives of an eccentric hit man (Fingers) or excessive gamblers (Black and White, Harvard Man, The Gambler) and capture the stories of the felonious titular subject...
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Erik Parker

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...
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Eric Yahnker

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...
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Bound but Not Gagged

"Ellen or Rosie and I have nothing in common; they're old-school joke tellers," says Sandra Bernhard. "My act is more akin to burlesque-rock 'n' roll-cabaret. If I don't get my audience turned on, then I'm not ...
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The Future is a Memory

When DEVO appeared on '80s sitcom, Square Pegs (which starred Sarah Jessica Parker), they whipped everyone—from the censors to the actresses—into a frenzy. On the episode, the band headlines a "New Wave Bat Mit...
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Gimme Shelter

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...
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Jerry Heller

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...
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Warm Lobster Salad

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...
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Just One Night

Getting groupies is not hard, but it is a nuanced game—somewhere between charades, capture the flag and drunken strip chess: It's fun, but you could get hurt and break your dick. Navigating this world of groupi...
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The Six-Year Itch

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...