So, newsflash, it turns that boys with common names (IE popular names) are less likely to be criminals than those with unpopular names. It kind of makes sense if you think about it. I mean, "Bernard" ...
In the wake of the National Bacon Explosion, an Esty store is peddling an eerily perfect bacon scarf. They describe the swine swath: "The scarf is a bumpy rectangle bacon shape, and it measures approximate...
Spend time at the gym trying to enhance your pectorals? Apparently, men in the UK are after the opposite aesthetic and are increasingly turning to breast reductions, which were up 44 percent in 2008. Guess ther...
Charlie Cooper of the Chicago electronic duo Telefon Tel Aviv has passed away at the age of thirty-one just days after the release his new album, Immolate Yourself. No word yet if Cooper's partner Joshua Eustis...
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, the film based on Michael Chabon's debut novel, had a good week during Sundance 2009. Too bad it actually premiered at Sundance 2008. A full year later, it has finally found a distr...
So the powers that be in the world of fashion--the New York Times--have declared that skirts for men are in, in, in! because Marc Jacobs and some guys in Paris have been sporting them of late.In a grand piece o...
We're back at MBar with 7-minute Jewish stories by Eric Andre, Joshuah Bearman, Lisa Brenner, Brian Finkelstein, Noah Jashinski, Malina Saval and Laura Silverman. The event will be hosted by Marc Evan Jackson. ...
Last night, Hallmark brought to you its best effort at a modern Jewish love story. Loving Leah stars Lauren Ambrose, of _Six Feet Under_, who plays an Orthodox Jew forced to marry her dead husband's brother, pl...
One sentence floated above the rest of the crowd noise every time it was uttered at Sundance this year, and uttered over and over again it was. It usually came out sounding something like this: "Mariah Car...
To be sure, the reasons I heart the NYTare practically limitless, but there's one in particular that stands out: Theycan pretty much write about whatever the fuck they want, independent of relevance, timeliness...
George O'Dowd, AKA, Boy George, is the most popular new inmate at North London's Pentonville prison. The 80s popstar and anti-Kabbalist was moved to the same slammer where Amy Winehouse's Blake was sent. The he...
Senator Boehner, House Minority Leader, suggests that we throw Gitmo detainees into San Francisco's national park, Alcatraz. According to Senator Boeher, "If liberals believe they ought to go, maybe we oug...