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Funny Girl

"Oh my God!! Listen to this!" Kristen Schaal squeals in her appealingly cartoonish voice. She jumps off her bed, which is covered by the kind of faded, old-fashioned quilt you'd only have if you, like, grew up ...
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So Sue Me

You may know Jeff B. Cohen from his turn as Chunk in The Goonies, though these days the retired child actor hardly ever performs the truffle shuffle for his friends or ransacks damp cellars for ice cream. Now a...
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The Vindication of Steve Bartman

A startling revelation comes at this, the beginning of the 2008 major league baseball season: Steve Bartman, the infamous Cub fan who lunged after a foul ball that many Wrigley-faithful believed would have been...
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Hat Power

You know it's getting close to Passover when the Associated Press starts running culturally-inclusive stories about yarmulke fashion. According to the story, now sports logos and and television characters routi...
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Geng Bang

"We're not a metal band, but we have metal practices," says Hamilton Jordan, guitarist of the band Genghis Tron over cups of seltzer a few hours before set time. The Philadelphia trio consists of Jor...
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Iztler Gets Whooped

The Spitzer-hooker scandal has been the perfect excuse for former "King of All Pimps" Jason Itzler to hit the talk show circuit.A solid interview subject for talking heads like Howard Stern and Larry ...
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Formula Bum

Scandalous orgies seem more Nascar than Formula One, but just when we thought it was safe to stereotype, here comes Max Mosley proving us wrong. The President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile ...
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Double Feature

Heeb's Hasidic zombie short, Night of the Living Jews will be appearing in two film festivals this Spring: First, NOLJ screens on April 3, the opening night of the A Night of Horror Film Festival in Australia...
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Seder What?

San Francisco chefs Gayle Pirie and John Cook are stepping up to the Heeb challenge and putting a Slow Food spin on the Passover seder. On Sunday, April 20 (the second night of Passover), Heeb invites readers t...