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Rosanna Scotto: The Face of Hate?

So this morning, Jewdar is watching Good Day, New York, and hostess Rosanna Scotto starts discussing the news that Mel Gibson's sons are taking legal steps to secure their inheritance now that their still-marri...
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No _Commentary_

Working at Heeb, spending all our time conversing with the people in our little Jewish magazine fishbowl, it's easy to lose perspective. Sometimes its good, then, to go out in the world, and see what's going on...
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Yelp Backpedals

The online local listings schmucks (a.k.a. Yelp) sent the above e-blast to their San Francisco listserv early this morning, only to follow up nine hours later with an apology from the editors. They changed the ...
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Who Wants to Try the Beastie Boys’ Hot Sauce?

Two decades into their career, with seven studio albums and Adam Yauch's distinguished silver mane to show for their hard work, no one would blame the Beastie Boys if they headed into retirement on some private...
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Scarlett Johansson Putting Out Another Album

I was totally shocked that Scarlett Johansson's album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head, didn't totally suck. But I gotta say, I am going to approach her follow-up, Break Up, with a lot of caution. Fo...
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Hitler Invades _Aqua Teen Hunger Force_

Of all the special guests ever featured on Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sunday night's episode ("Der Inflatable Fuhrer") contained the most special guest of all: Adolf Hitler himself.Of cours...
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Eagle and Talon: The _Heeb_ Interview

It's safe to say that there has been a recent fascination in the music world with revisiting the 1990s. Examples range from Deerhunter and Wavves tackling the lo-fi fuzz practiced by luminaries like Pavement an...