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Brüno Victim To Get Spin-off Show?

Finally, someone realizes how to use the publicity generated by being an unwitting star in a Sacha Baron Cohen movie to their advantage. While Ayman Abu Aita, the "terrorist group leader," was out filing a laws...
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Remembering Dash Snow

Back in the day, when I was an editor at a hip art and fashion magazine, we used to joke that Dash Snow was pretty much everything wrong with the art world: a "self-taught" junkie tagger kid who poppe...
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Modern Hooker: The _Heeb_ Interview

Modern Hooker (she will not give her real name) is a prostitute who back in January launched a comic strip and has since tweeted her twat off to build an online audience--only for fun. ("Traffic schmaffic,...
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Michael Showalter: The HEEB Interview

Text by Sam Smith via (cc) flickr As a 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry, Michael Showalter has managed to sustain a versatile and fresh career. A featured performer and writer in legendary s...
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The New New Yiddishists

Vanity Fair might have thought it was cutting edge to identify a group of Jewish writers as being "the New Yiddishists." Well, if there's a question as to who has the cuttingest edge in the Jewish cul...
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_Vanity Fair_’s “New Yiddishists”?

Mama-Loshn has definitely taken some heavy blows in the last century. The blandishments of America led millions to abandon it for English, while in Russia, Yiddish itself was used a medium of anti-Jewish cultu...
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American Apparel Strikes Back at Woody

Wholesome clothing retailer American Apparel struck out against Woody Allen yesterday, laying the seeds of its defense in the $10 million lawsuit the director filed against the company for using his image in a ...
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Bad Dog

The "Shawarma King" kosher eatery in Borough Park, Brooklyn was the site of a near riot when a non-kosher hot dog was almost served, causing the proprietor to have to fight off angry costumers with and electri...