Director Jason Reitman's upcoming live reading of the Coen Brothers' neo-classic stoner flick casts its Dude, and dude, you didn't see this one coming.
The South is different. Let Jewdar make this clear--we are are not a fan of the smarmy liberal tendency to paint all Southerners as illiterate rednecks. Fun fact--while Obama won among the most educated voters, he also won among the least educated. But when we say the South is different, we mean more than just voting patterns and education levels. We mean that for a long, long time--even before the Civil War--there was a Southern identity distinct from the the rest of the country.
Once upon a time, summertime was when a young Jew's fancy would turn to thoughts of summer excursions in the Catskills. And for many of them, of course, "the Catskills" meant "Kutsher's." Well, those days of yore are no more, but that doesn't mean a young Jew can't still dream.
This year's "Midburn" Israeli Burning Man festival was a celebration of lights, sounds, and desert-based debauchery. For one psychedelic reveler, though, joining the holy land's hottest party would never have happened without the help of his mother.