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SXSW Recap II, More Recappier

Friday:Maybe you guys have heard of this metal band named Metallica? Well, they came to Austin, Texas this year for their big break, and after having seen them play Stubb's, I am confident that they'll be huge....
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Perry Farrell Shills For Chabad

I don't even know what to say about this YouTube video of Perry Farrell singing Oseh Shalom, except you're welcome. At the 2:43 mark, a small child wanders on stage to chill with Perry and groove with that swee...
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Robert Crumb’s Bible Controversy

On Wednesday, Robert Crumb's UK Publisher described the cartoonist's long-awaited rendition on the Book of Genesis as a "scandalous satire" and sure to "provoke the religious right". Four ye...
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Is Gefilte Fish the New Bacon?

Bacon and its various permutations (baconnaise, bacon cupcakes and bacon books, to name a few) have been clogging the arteries of popular food culture for some time, but the craze may be going into cardiac arre...
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Disbanded

Sometimes life plays out like a sitcom, sometimes like a dark comedy. When a Palestinian youth orchestra played music for a group of Holocaust survivors, it seemed like the kind of rare burst of humanity that m...
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Battle of the Beards

In what seems to Jewdar to be the basis for what may be the most awesome sitcom ever, a group of Amish took a chasidic-sponsored tour of Crown Heights, allegedly for the purpose of developing ties between the t...
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Deep Economic Doo Doo

Dave Praeger, author of Poop Culture and helmer of the website www.poopreport.com, hit me up to buy his site a couple days ago. Praeger explains his rationale behind the 120K asking price by pointing to its ave...