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Franco My Dear, I Don’t Give a Damn

So, I just saw Pineapple Express with a group of female friends, and we all swooned over James Franco. Because, apparently, we all like slackers who smoke a lot of pot. That's right Mom and Dad-- not only have ...
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Robert Rhine: The _Heeb_ Interview

Zany absurdist magazines come and go, but you never hear of one in which one of the financial backers was actually killed by a grizzly bear leaving the surviving partner to handle the fortune and glory of a com...
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_Z Rock_: The _Heeb_ Review

By Julia YoungZ-Rock (IFCTV's new series airing Sunday) follows ZO2, a real-life Brooklyn band that starts playing children's birthday parties for cash. Unfortunately, ZO2 spends half the time of the part-impro...
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Wack Job

Last week, actor Ernest Borgnine confessed to Fox News that he chronically spanks his monkey -- information that would have been useful to me before my bare hands touched the very questionairre that his sticky ...
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Play It Again, Janez

In Slovenia, current Prime Minister Janez Jansa cracked a Woody Allen joke to outsmart his rivals in their upcoming election. Convinced the opposition party's candidates invent their solutions before presenting...
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Margaret Cho: The _Heeb_ Interview

by Shira LevineLast week, comedian Margaret Cho chatted us up at a screening of her new VH1 show, The Cho Show, which airs tomorrow at 11 p.m. Cho isn't one to wax shy and the show doesn't disappoint --from Joa...
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Kafka-mess

As a German Jew in Prague, Kafka developed a rhetoric of alienation, tied closely to the cold prose of German, but was also drawn inexorably to the emotive Czech lanugauge from which he was excluded. How strang...
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Take the Torahs and Run

Eight Torahs, collectively valued at $500,000, have been stolen from a Queens synagogue. Members of the synagogue suspect that it was an inside job because there was no sign of a forced entry and, well, they we...
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In Need of Therapy

Being the fully actuated, completely self absorbed egomaniac that we are, Jewdar has never needed therapy. But we understand that many of my fellow Tribespeople are not so fortunate. We also understand that t...
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The Monster Ticket

A funny thing happened this past weekend when the worlds of politics and tabloid sensationalism merged to bring us the Hillary Clinton/Bigfoot story. A few weeks ago, a Georgia duo discovered the hairy half-man...
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All the Rage

Maybe its the price of food or gas or just an extension of the competetive "Olympic spirit," but anger management seems to be posing a larger and larger problem for Americans these days. Here are the...