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A _Gossip Girl_ Passover

Last night on Gossip Girl (that's right I watch Gossip Girl, fuck you), we were treated to a fashionably late Passover episode. After watching it, however, I fully realized how lame all the Seders at my aunt an...
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Victor Goldfeld: The _Heeb_ Interview

For Heeb's Music Issue, I was issued the task of reporting on a lawsuit that Ol' Dirty Bastard's former manager, Jarred Weisfeld, had filed against the rapper's biographer, Jaime Lowe.Writing my piece, "Ol' Dir...
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Sandra Bernhard: The Heeb Interview

When she first appeared on the scene, Sandra Bernhard was an impetuous flirt whose svelte figure and pronounced expressions brazenly attracted the glitterati, for better or for worse. But despite detours and se...
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First Iowa, Then Manhattan?

As soon as we saw the news about Iowa legalizing same sex marriage, we knew it was coming, and lo and behold, just a few days later, Vermont follows suit. Let's be clear, we have no problem with gays, but we th...
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Re-inking Jewish Law

My peeps over at Needles and Sins posted an extremely interesting interview between writer Craig Dershowitz and Orthodox Rabbi Henry Harris. Whether or not this is really "The Definitive Guide to Jewish Th...
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Peeping Awful

As a child, I was always kind of jealous of Christian kids. Why? Well, for Easter, Christian children get to eat candy and hunt for eggs. What do we get for Passover? Big crackers and horseradish. Yeah, we get ...
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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...
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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...
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Back to Black?

Apparently, Amy Winehouse went to the Caribbean on holiday a soul singer and came back boasting a new reggae-flavored sound. And, apparently, it ain't good. So bad, in fact, that she has to come up with a whole...