What’s in a Name?
So, newsflash, it turns that boys with common names (IE popular names) are less likely to be criminals than those with unpopular names. It kind of makes sense if you think about it. I mean, "Bernard" ...
Booby Prizes
Spend time at the gym trying to enhance your pectorals? Apparently, men in the UK are after the opposite aesthetic and are increasingly turning to breast reductions, which were up 44 percent in 2008. Guess ther...
_Mysteries of Pittsburgh_ Revealed
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, the film based on Michael Chabon's debut novel, had a good week during Sundance 2009. Too bad it actually premiered at Sundance 2008. A full year later, it has finally found a distr...
_Heeb_ Stortyelling Returns to L.A.
We're back at MBar with 7-minute Jewish stories by Eric Andre, Joshuah Bearman, Lisa Brenner, Brian Finkelstein, Noah Jashinski, Malina Saval and Laura Silverman. The event will be hosted by Marc Evan Jackson. ...
_Heeb_ @ Sundance: And the Winner Is…Mariah Carey?
One sentence floated above the rest of the crowd noise every time it was uttered at Sundance this year, and uttered over and over again it was. It usually came out sounding something like this: "Mariah Car...
Sweet Land of Liberty
Senator Boehner, House Minority Leader, suggests that we throw Gitmo detainees into San Francisco's national park, Alcatraz. According to Senator Boeher, "If liberals believe they ought to go, maybe we oug...
_Heeb_ @ Sundance: Jim From _The Office_ Gets _Hideous_
Office star John Krasinski really is that freaking nice in real life. But for his directorial debut Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Krasinski dives deep down the rabbit hole of the male psyche. The film, whi...
_Heeb_ @ Sundance: _Superbad_’s Greg Mottola
One of the higher-profile movies making its debut at Sundance this year is Adventureland, director Greg Mottola's follow-up to Superbad. The ‘80s-set film, which he also wrote, stars Jesse Eisenberg from The ...
Tamar Eisenman: The _Heeb_ Interview
Israeli songstress Tamar Eisenman is at the top of the new wave of musicians from the Holy Land breaking away from many of the musical genres for which the country is best known. Eisenman is already a pretty bi...
_Heeb_ @ Sundance: _The Wrestler_ and _Big Fan_ Writer, Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel left his post as editor-in-chief of the Onion to do what all writers eventually try their hand at: write screenplays. How'd that work out for him? He wrote the words that lead to Mickey Rourke's O...
_Heeb_ @ Sundance: Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer-winning Times columnist, wants us to care. And he knows what he's up against.The Sundance documentary Reporter follows Nick through life-risking trips in Afghanistan, Darfur ...
Inside Beit T’Shuvah
Text by Malina SavalIt was a soul sickness that 26-year-old Noah Jashinski (top photo) says he was suffering from. It stemmed from a failed attempt at rock ‘n roll stardom after stints playing back-up for Sma...
