The Best of 5767: Television
_As you might've heard, the lunar calendar finished its cycle and the Jewish year 5767 became 5768. We considered fireworks and a night of pick-pocketing in Times Square, but instead we decided to use the oppor...
The Best of 5767: Books
_As you might've heard, the lunar calendar finished its cycle and the Jewish year 5767 became 5768. We considered fireworks and a night of pick-pocketing in Times Square, but instead we decided to use the oppor...
The Best of 5767: Film
_As you might've heard, the lunar calendar finished its cycle and the Jewish year 5767 became 5768. We considered fireworks and a night of pick-pocketing in Times Square, but instead we decided to use the oppor...
The Best of 5767: Comics
_As you might've heard, the lunar calendar finished its cycle and the Jewish year 5767 became 5768. We considered fireworks and a night of pick-pocketing in Times Square, but instead we decided to use the oppor...
The Best of 5767: Music
_As you might've heard, the lunar calendar finished its cycle and the Jewish year 5767 became 5768. We considered fireworks and a night of pick-pocketing in Times Square, but instead we decided to use the oppor...
Down Under
Not unlike many _Heeb_ readers, I suppose, I was sexually deprived as an adolescent. While I sat at home during my school days doing "you know what":http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/335, the other kids eng...
A Trip Down Mammary Lane
As you might recall, last month "a woman in Kentucky was razzed by Applebee's staff":http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/326 for not covering up while suckling her tot. "To protest,":http://www.kentucky.com/2...
_Kingdom_ Coming Soon
Steven Spielberg and company have announced the title for the fourth Indiana Jones installment and "gloves have already come off in the blogosphere":http://blogs.tampabay.com/80s/2007/09/indiana-jones.html. It'...
The Gospel According to A.J.
The market for gimmick books—shtick lit, as it were—has enjoyed a surprising shelf life. There are authors who pledge not to spend money for a year, those who promise to say yes to everything and, of course, th...
The Ballad Of Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler's music seems to exist in a world of its own. Most songs consist of little more than a carefully finger-picked acoustic guitar and a wispy, disembodied voice that recalls Hope Sandoval's reverb-d...
Army@Love
The revolution's gonna be graphic-novelized. In his Vertigo/DC monthly comic book, _Army@Love_, comiconoclast Rick Veitch drops subversive sci-fi-satire bombs. A collection of the first six issues, _Army@Love V...
Taking It To The Streets
"They just aren't pretty," my grandmother declared after walking in and quickly out of Zoe Strauss' solo exhibition at Silverstein Photography this past summer. I was startled. I had spent the last month visiti...
