A tragedy occurred when a 48-year-old construction worker hung himself at the home of actor/director Mel Gibson this past Wednesday. Gibson was not around at the time of the suicide but says he feels "awf...

A video game with a grand narrative centered on a Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied France is currently in development for the Nintendo DS, though the company says it's unlikely to ever see the light of day. T...

Tina Fey just joined Jonah Hill, Jennifer Garner, and Rob Lowe in the cast of Ricky Gervais' upcoming directorial debut. TitledThis Side of Truth, the film is set in a futuristic world where lies don't exist an...

Straight from the mind of the pop genius who brought us such gems as "I Hate Israel" and "Hey People, It Was Only a Tower" comes the campaign tribute Obama doesn't want anyone to hear: "...

As Tolstoy noted, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." A similar observation may be made about humor. Funny is funny, but unfunny, well, there are lots of wa...

Benjy Bronk has come a long way in radio, and in a pretty damn short amount of time. Back in 1998, Bronk was hired as an intern for "The Howard Stern Show" on FM radio, where he was often found pullin...

The point of SXSW is to hear the bands you're not all that familiar with. This is what I keep explaining to the people inquiring about the acts I saw this past weekend. Sure, R.E.M. was there and so was My Morn...

If you've ever wondered what the 9-5 life of an artist is like, get thee to the Jewish Museum in New York. The museum's two week exhibit, "Off the Wall: Artists at Work," features 11 artists from vari...

An alternative title for the memoir of celebrity journalist and self-proclaimed "poker slut" Martha Frankel, Hats and Eyeglasses, could easily have been Chicken Soup for the Compulsive Gambler's Soul....

An Arab-Israeli woman engaged to a Jew survived a drive-by shooting on Sunday that police claimed was motivated by a "desecration of the family's honor." Apparently, the shots were aimed at the woman'...

Last week, Jewish settlers in the West Bank protested when Facebook, at the prompting of West Bank Palestinians, changed the home country of West Bank accounts from Israel to Palestine. Asking Facebook to chang...

This past weekend, nearly 2,000 bands descended on Austin, Texas for the annual SXSW Festival and in the three days that I was there, I managed to see 29 of them. Thirty, if you count the Holy Fuck set that I i...