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Postcards From Yo Momma

Heeb Hundred alum Doree Shafrir has been quite the busy lady of late. When not being profiled in the New Yorker (posh!) or the New York Times, she's editing and writing over at the New York Observer and having ...
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Diamond Dealer

5,769 years in the making, there is finally a blog dedicated to Jewish baseball players. Jews on First is written by a dedicated Baltimore Jewish baseball fan who started this blog to "honor his Jewish her...
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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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Chris Verene: The Heeb Interview

By Adam Menceles Chris Verene (far left) is a photographer, musician and self-proclaimed over-educated art professor. He wants to be your wedding photographer and drum teacher. He plays with his wife Ani in ...
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Hey! We Know That F-ing Hipster!

One of my very favorite Tumblrs nowadays is Look At This Fucking Hipster, a blog that shows just that--hipsters being hipsters.While I usually sign on to have a chuckle and drool over the boys in skinny jeans, ...
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Is Asher Roth the Next Eminem?

When Eminem came onto the stage, the world welcomed the lyricist who was able to balance his 8 Mile street cred with witty lyrics that were embraced by both Dr. Dre and the whiteys. But then Em fell off, got fa...
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Letters From Iraq

While Benjamin Preston, a staff writer for The Santa Barbara Independent, was embedded with an Army unit in Iraq, he traded e-mails with Heeb about his quest to find a rabbi. He had to wade through ample amount...
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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...