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Heeeeeeerrrrre’s Jonny!

The _Daily Show_'s Jon Stewart will "return as host for the 2008 Oscar telecast":http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=11763. The switch back to Stewart (who hosted the 2006 Awards) was a decision made by ...
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Jewdar

*Fall Of Hope* We are rapidly approaching that special time of redemption and renewal—we speak, of course, of the new fall television season. Once again, the network execs have somehow forgotten to solicit Jew...
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Ask A Black Man

Richard Pryor didn't come up with all of those wildly provocative punch lines by himself. A large amount of his scathing onstage material and Grammy-winning LPs are credited to _The Richard Pryor Show_ head wri...
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Be Afraid of Shadows

Many observers on the Israel scene were wringing their hands when "Burger King":http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/picture/atarim/site_form_atar_eng.asp?site_id=1010&pic_cat=4&icon_cat=6&york_cat=9&type_id=15...
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All About My Other

Last year, Ari Sandel's "_West Bank Story_":http://www.westbankstory.com/ somehow won an Academy Award for "Best Live Action Short Film." The film told the story of an Israeli soldier falling for a Palestinian ...
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Lost and Found

If the season finale of "_Big Love_":http://www.hbo.com/biglove/ has left you jonesing for your weekly fix of polygamist Mormons, check out "_CNN.com_":http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/07/lost.boys/index.html's st...
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Cup and Pen Small Small Press Fair

This Saturday from 2-6pm, I will be manning _Heeb_'s table at the Cup and Pen Small Small Press Fair at "Think Coffee":http://www.thinkcoffeenyc.com in Manhattan. No, you're right, _Heeb_ is not a small small p...
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No Mo’ Mo

After only a couple years of operation, restaurant/bar/performance space "Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction":http://www.mopitkins.com is "up for sale":http://www.nypost.com/seven/09052007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix...