Mittens, Anyone?
Somewhere in heaven, an angel is gently prying the rifle away from a pair of cold dead hands. ...
Barry Louis Polisar: The _Heeb_ Interview
You may have grown up with Barry Louis Polisar's books or songs. He is the author of such classics as Insect Soup and Don't Do That, as well as popular children's songs, including "Don't Put Your Finger up...
Devendra + Natalie?
The king of all things weirdo-folk, Devendra Banhart has been increasingly appearing on our jewdar lately. First, comes last year's doo-wop love song "Shabop Shalom" on Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyo...
Idol Chatter
Kelly Clarkson was recently caught on YouTube speaking some Hebrew, by which we mean wrapping her mouth (yikes) around some guttural sounds, one of which at least slightly resembled "shalom." Sure, sh...
Take the Money and Frum
Nineteen-year-old black hat Avraham Rotenberg was recently identified as the man who stormed a Lakewood, New Jersey jewelry store armed with a shot gun this past February, making off with two duffel bags of jew...
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...
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 ...
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...
Sexy Beast
Emma Forest gets up close and personal with Jason Segel, the writer and star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
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...
Soul Clap’s Dancing on the Charles: The Heeb Review
By Sharon Steel When Charles Levine and Eli Goldstein decided to throw the first Dancing on the Charles, an outdoor dance party in Cambridge, MA last year, they didn't bank on the ominous rain clouds threatenin...
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...
