Wright On
While most Jewish homes will break bread among fellow crackers during Passover this month, artist/drummer LaRoi Wright has booked a dining space at the Marriott City Place in West Palm Beach, Florida, for multi...
Bryan Greenberg: The _Heeb_ Interview
By David Deutsch When I was told I'd be interviewing Bryan Greenberg, star of ABC's October Road, the upcoming film Nobel Son (hitting theaters next week) and already a TV-vet while not quite 30, I could do not...
Double Feature
Heeb's Hasidic zombie short, Night of the Living Jews will be appearing in two film festivals this Spring: First, NOLJ screens on April 3, the opening night of the A Night of Horror Film Festival in Australia...
Seder What?
San Francisco chefs Gayle Pirie and John Cook are stepping up to the Heeb challenge and putting a Slow Food spin on the Passover seder. On Sunday, April 20 (the second night of Passover), Heeb invites readers t...
Jake Kasdan: The Heeb Interview
By Pamela Chelin "Until a week ago, I didn't have a wife," says writer/director Jake Kasdan while drinking a fruit smoothie and munching on a tuna melt at the 101 Cafe in Los Angeles. It's four days a...
A Nose By Any Other Name
The Jewish Museum of Berlin opened a show last week titled "Typical! Cliches About Jews and Others" that addresses such questions as "Are blacks better athletes?" and "Do Jews have long...
Intelligent De-Stein
Ben Stein seems so smart, what with the glasses and the monotone. I guess it's because he was intelligently designed. Really Ben Stein? A documentary about how "Big Science" has expelled intelligent d...
First They Came for the Madams…
Proving yet again that the world has learned nothing from the Holocaust, Spitzer-pimpette Andreia Schwartz has declared Uncle Sam's abuse of her rights to be "worse than Nazi Germany." It is in t...
Jews for _Geez_
Geez Magazine: Holy mischief in an age of fast faith is sorta like our Christian doppelganger. Created by Adbusters' Aiden Enns, Geez describes itself as "untangle the narrative of faith from the fundamentalist...
Milton Burlesque
Jewdar's incredible devotion to the faith of our fathers prohibits us from viewing such things as burlesque (on the other hand, we do get to have concubines and smite Amalekites, so we still come out ahead in o...
Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered: The _Heeb_ Review
By Karen Bookatz Famed pop artist, Andy Warhol, in collaboration with New York gallerist, Ronald Feldman, chose ten prominent Jewish figures - including writers, actors, composers, philosophers and political f...
SXSW Recap, Part III
I know I promised to post this final installment yesterday, but SXSW is an exhausting enough experience that it genuinely affects the productivity of the whole following week. Frankly put, four days of constant...
