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The point of SXSW is to hear the bands you're not all that familiar with. This is what I keep explaining to the people inquiring about the acts I saw this past weekend. Sure, R.E.M. was there and so was My Morn...

If you've ever wondered what the 9-5 life of an artist is like, get thee to the Jewish Museum in New York. The museum's two week exhibit, "Off the Wall: Artists at Work," features 11 artists from vari...

An alternative title for the memoir of celebrity journalist and self-proclaimed "poker slut" Martha Frankel, Hats and Eyeglasses, could easily have been Chicken Soup for the Compulsive Gambler's Soul....

An Arab-Israeli woman engaged to a Jew survived a drive-by shooting on Sunday that police claimed was motivated by a "desecration of the family's honor." Apparently, the shots were aimed at the woman'...

Last week, Jewish settlers in the West Bank protested when Facebook, at the prompting of West Bank Palestinians, changed the home country of West Bank accounts from Israel to Palestine. Asking Facebook to chang...

This past weekend, nearly 2,000 bands descended on Austin, Texas for the annual SXSW Festival and in the three days that I was there, I managed to see 29 of them. Thirty, if you count the Holy Fuck set that I i...

Earlier this month, Hasidic pop-star Lipa Schmeltzer was forced to pull out of a concert at the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden when several Brooklyn black hats condemned his music as immoral. One told Y...

Last week we told you that Hasidic friend-of-Heeb Abe Karpen was spotted on the Brooklyn Bridge with Natalie Portman. He was filming a movie in which he played Portman's husband, but that's the last sighting of...

Saturday Night Live has been enjoying a resurgence in political relevance as of late. But what really got our attention was Heeb coverboy Jonah Hill's tour-de-force as six-year-old borscht belter Adam Grossman...

Less than a month ago, StuffWhitePeopleLike.wordpress.com debuted, declaring coffee the #1 thing adored by white people. According to the writer, "Yes, it's true that asians like iced coffee and people of ...

A grass-roots effort by a community of Orthodox Jews temporarily fended off a proposal from Wal-Mart to build a store in their town of Monsey, N.Y. The mega-retailer had been courting rabbis along with the gene...

Is Natalie Portman stalking _Heeb_?Last week she was seen at the Kiva/ GOOD Magazine event with _Heeb_ associate publisher Adam Baruchowitz. Today, she was spotted on the Brooklyn Bridge with _Heeb_ co-conspira...