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How Low Can You Go?

Big mazel to The Lowbrow Reader for coming out of its two-year hiatus with its sixth issue this week. I've personally been waiting for a new edition ever since I read its fake interview with Tiger Woods in whic...
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So Sue Me

You may know Jeff B. Cohen from his turn as Chunk in The Goonies, though these days the retired child actor hardly ever performs the truffle shuffle for his friends or ransacks damp cellars for ice cream. Now a...
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Funny Girl

"Oh my God!! Listen to this!" Kristen Schaal squeals in her appealingly cartoonish voice. She jumps off her bed, which is covered by the kind of faded, old-fashioned quilt you'd only have if you, like, grew up ...
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Mile Chai 700 Club

I sometimes forget that Evangelical Christians make pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Thankfully El Al, Israel's national airline, does not. The airline recently held its third annual Christian Advisory Board meetin...
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The Vindication of Steve Bartman

A startling revelation comes at this, the beginning of the 2008 major league baseball season: Steve Bartman, the infamous Cub fan who lunged after a foul ball that many Wrigley-faithful believed would have been...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors

Remember how Heeb rabbinic authority Berel B put American Apparel head Dov Charney up to that billboard (above)? Well, no good joke goes unpunished; Allen is now suing the company for $10 million. Perhaps the k...
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Hat Power

You know it's getting close to Passover when the Associated Press starts running culturally-inclusive stories about yarmulke fashion. According to the story, now sports logos and and television characters routi...
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Geng Bang

"We're not a metal band, but we have metal practices," says Hamilton Jordan, guitarist of the band Genghis Tron over cups of seltzer a few hours before set time. The Philadelphia trio consists of Jor...
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Iztler Gets Whooped

The Spitzer-hooker scandal has been the perfect excuse for former "King of All Pimps" Jason Itzler to hit the talk show circuit.A solid interview subject for talking heads like Howard Stern and Larry ...
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Formula Bum

Scandalous orgies seem more Nascar than Formula One, but just when we thought it was safe to stereotype, here comes Max Mosley proving us wrong. The President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile ...

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