by editorial intern Laura E. Marcus The first thing I thought when I saw Patrick Wolf grace the stage at Brooklyn’s Studio B was, “Holy shit, this guy is the Morrissey of my generation!” Now don’t get me wrong, I love The Smiths and Morrissey is a big reason why, but I understand that while...

She’s hot. She’s sassy. She’s what would happen if Peaches ever gave it to Rachel Dratch with a strap-on. Catch “Adrira Amram”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUYI8PaOEgE at “_Heeb_ Stortyelling”:http://www.joespub.org/caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=detail&performanceID=3033 at Joe’s Pub this Sunday in Manhattan. Joining Amram are “Larry Litt”:http://www.blameshow.com/larry.htm, “Emma Forest”:http://emmaforrest.blogspot.com/, “Miriam Datskovsky”:http://www.miriamdatskovsky.com/theblog/, “Scott Blakeman”:http://www.scottblakeman.com/ and “Leah Siegel”:http://www.leahsiegel.com/home. The event starts at 7 p.m. and is hosted...

We all know that the earth is in deep doo doo, but this is ridiculous. Sheryl Crow calls for a limits to be imposed on the “use of toilet paper.”:http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/spare_a_square.php Pictured above is the Grammy award winning singer and her potentially derelict derriere.

The NRA is accused of using anti-Semitic imagery in its “portrayal of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as an octopus.”:http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_108175220.html Even though the eight-tentacled sea creature has been used as a metaphor for “Jewish conspiracies”:http://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Jewish-Conspiracies/dp/0312334397 throughout the ages, “NRA spokeswoman”:http://www.amny.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny–nraoctopus0418apr18,0,163505.story?coll=sns-ap-investing-headlines Ashley Varner said possible parallels between the magazine cover and the historical context of...

“J. Hoberman’s cover story on Brooklyn-born, uber-schmendrick Elliot Gould in this week’s _Village Voice_”:http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0716,hoberman,76384,20.html would have been perfect for _Heeb_… if _Heeb_ was around, like, 37 years ago. On next week’s cover Nat Hentoff on Brown vs. The Board of Education.

In today’s _LA Times_ columnist “Joel Stein”:http://www.thejoelstein.com/thejoelstein.com/Welcome.html struggles with why Don Imus was embraced by American political life, while his former on-air partner at WNBC in New York, Howard Stern, was consistently attacked by it. No, Imus was a success not because of his racism, but because of his “stupidity:”:http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein13apr13,0,4403580.column?coll=la-opinion-center “I know this because when...

On the 25th Anniversary of _Porky’s_, “_Entertainment Weekly_”:http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20033899,00.html waxes nostalgiac for the early 80′s explosion of teen sex comedies…like _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_, thereby finding an excuse to put the twentieth century’s answer to Boticelli’s “Birth of Venus” on its cover.

“Cornel West’s forthcoming album”:http://www.hiddenbeachmedia.com/index.php?option=com_artist&Itemid=35&id=43 is as good an argument for why scholars should stay in the ivory tower as “this”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbv6r_tKnE is for Captain Kirk staying on the Enterprise. West, who you may remember graced “the pages of _Heeb_”:http://heebish.com/articles/view/60 in 2004, somehow corralled Prince into joining him on one of the tracks, proving that sometimes two...

In Black Book (in theaters across the U.S. today), Dutch starlet Carice Van Houten plays the typical Paul Verhoeven femme fatale—aggressive, cunning and gorgeous. The director, best known in the United States for classic guilty pleasures like Basic Instinct and Showgirls, returned to his native Holland to tell the complicated story of life in the...

Just in case you were concerned that that rabbi wasn’t going to have enough matzoh for the holiday without his trusty bus/oven/deathtrap, worry no more. “The matzoh bus rabbi has been granted a special Passover reprieve.”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/nyregion/30mbrfs-BUSBAKEDMATZ_BRF.html?_r=1&oref=slogin/ Phew.

The Original Chinatown Bad Boys announce the release of their new EP “Lunch Money.” According to their website: “As your tightened anuses pulsate in anticipation, the MSG’s Chinatown fire burns hotter by the minute.” Click “here”:http://www.notoriousmsg.com/ to pre-order the “Lunch Money” EP.

Like chocolate and peanut butter, illustration and burlesque go great together (but with much fewer allergic reactions). Tonight, “Molly Crabapple”:http://www.mollycrabapple.com/ signs her saucy burlesque activity book “_Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book_”:http://www.drsketchy.com/book.php at “Meltdown Comics”:http://www.meltcomics.com/ in Los Angeles. Our Spring Issue calls the book “a frothy and delightful romp,” which also describes the dream...