Our Stomachs, Ourselves
Gastrointestinal diseases and the Jews that have them
Urban Kvetch: Your Friend’s One-Woman Show
Your Friend's One-Woman Show
You failed to mention that the one-woman, off-off-Broadway show you invited me to last Thursday night was being presented by a friend of yours. Yeah, you managed to omit that part ...
Urban Kvetch: Habitat For Humanity
Habitat For Humanity
You took a five-and-a-half hour flight to New Orleans, spent a four-day weekend at the Marriot and hammered three nails into a piece of wood. Don't tell me how great it feels to "give some...
Urban Kvetch: The Death of Adverbs
The Death of Adverbs
No, I won't "play fair." I refuse to "get home safe." Hogtie me Gitmo-style and I still won't "think different." Rage, I say, rage against the dying of the adverb! This stately part of spe...
Urban Kvetch: My Ex-Girlfriend
My Ex-Girlfriend
We broke up amicably. You aren't seeing anybody and neither am I. And you wouldn't be giving up anything that you haven't already. We have done this before since our breakup, so what's the big...
Urban Kvetch: Hospital Roomates
Hospital Roommates
So, you've got some horrible illness that lands you in the hospital and puts you in a perpetual state of discomfort. What a great time to get to meet "Arnie," your new roommate. Who was the ...
Urban Kvetch: Two Dimes and a Nickel
Two Dimes and a Nickel
The ice cream comes out to $4.50. I give you a five and you give me a quarter, two dimes and a nickel. Are you rationing for some pinball war I should know about? You've got plenty of qu...
Urban Kvetch: Our Founding Fathers
Our Founding Fathers
Just because they dressed like dorks it doesn't mean they would've been Republican assholes like you if they were around today. You think because Jefferson believed in "life, liberty and t...
Why?
According to Susan Lukas, author of Where to Start and What to Ask, why is a "confrontational word,an antagonistic word that seeks accountability."So it's telling that Yoni Wolf, a Berkeley, California.eccentric chose Why? as his moniker—essentially, Yoni and his music are one big collective question posed to the indie rock scene. And with every record that he releases, we get closer and closer to a satisfying answer.
Booty Calls
Whether it's number one, number two or some hellacious hybrid thereof, using public restrooms can be, pardon the pun, a real pain in the ass. We're all used to the comforts of our bathrooms at home—fuzzy toilet...
Read It and Eat
From abalone to zwieback, we tasted every food on the entire planet and came up with a list of the only 50 that really matter.
Borscht Belt Horror
You can run...you can hide...this is the soup that eats you alive. If you've never been to the Catskills, now is not the time to visit. Peter Svarzbein's stills of Heeb's first horror film.
!http://www.heebi...
