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_Fair_ Play?

Last week, Wormser (above) and the rest of us spent an afternoon in Central Park and took another softball-schooling from another magazine, but the post-game rants online from Vanity Fair's head coach are altog...
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Bandaid

After surviving abject poverty, pneumonia, malaria and tuberculosis ex-Malawi orphan David Banda will finally get to see some real drama.Word on the street is Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are turning to &quo...
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Waste of _Time_

On Monday, Time magazine released its 50 Best Websites of 2008, and it's stupid. In a sad attempt to come across like professional websurfers who've got the scoop on up-and-coming domains, the digital arm of th...
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American Apparatus

Because running to two separate stores for your thigh-high leg warmers and your vibrator is one stop too many for any all-American girl, Dov Charney brings them to one shelf near you. Not sure how the Hitachi m...
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Diamond Days Fest: Just One Month Away

On top of all the great bands Jay Diamond has tapped to play Diamond Days (Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Lazarus, Tweak Bird, Thee Makeout Party, Bridez, the list includes up to ten bands a night), we're now...
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Ruthann Friedman: The _Heeb_ Interview

One of the great things about setting up Diamond Days, is that I get a chance to put together an entire weekend of music that I genuinely want to hear together. Some of the artists have been playing for years,...
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_Gov Love_: The _Heeb_ Review

Mom, I would really appreciate it if you NOT read the following post. I love you, but I promise this will not be your cup of tea. Gov Love is Hustler Video's dramatization of the events that befell Eliot Spi...
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Pisa Party

Personally I can't imagine anyone going to the trouble of constructing 12,000 pieces of Jenga into a Tower of Pisa just to watch it fall to shambles, but I'm glad someone did. ...
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Ilan Hall: The _Heeb_ Interview

By Shira Levine Stephanie Izard made culinary history as the first woman to nab the Top Chef title on Bravo's Season Four finale last night. Last Friday, we caught up withTop Chef's first Jewish winner, Season ...
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Cats with Katz

Semites on Bikes, a Baltimore-based club founded by early-childhood teacher and humane society activist Ken Shapiro has only the best of intentions. Unfortunately, Shaprio and Co. have created a calendar called...