Bacon and its various permutations (baconnaise, bacon cupcakes and bacon books, to name a few) have been clogging the arteries of popular food culture for some time, but the craze may be going into cardiac arre...
Sometimes life plays out like a sitcom, sometimes like a dark comedy. When a Palestinian youth orchestra played music for a group of Holocaust survivors, it seemed like the kind of rare burst of humanity that m...
Dave Praeger, author of Poop Culture and helmer of the website www.poopreport.com, hit me up to buy his site a couple days ago. Praeger explains his rationale behind the 120K asking price by pointing to its ave...
It's one thing to accidentally give your kid-sister pot brownies, but it's quite another to intentionally give your nursing wife methampethamine-laced water. The latter, it turns out,gets you arrested forall so...
Rush bassist/lead singer Geddy Lee is a rock icon. He is also Gary Lee Weinrib, born in Willowdale, Toronto, to Holocaust survivors Mary and Morris Weinrib. Perhaps this provides a clue as to why so many confus...
With all due respect to my colleague Yasha, as a seven-year SXSW veteran, I know how to cram in as many bands as possible in a four day period. And so a week after the Southern rock insanity, as I reminisce ove...
My peeps over at Needles and Sins posted an extremely interesting interview between writer Craig Dershowitz and Orthodox Rabbi Henry Harris. Whether or not this is really "The Definitive Guide to Jewish Th...
As a child, I was always kind of jealous of Christian kids. Why? Well, for Easter, Christian children get to eat candy and hunt for eggs. What do we get for Passover? Big crackers and horseradish. Yeah, we get ...
Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro may be appearing as the Three Stooges in an upcoming Farrelly Brothers pic. Variety reports that MGM has signed Penn to play Larry, with negotiations under way for Car...
For those of you who didn't make it down to hipster spring break at SXSW and didn't get to sample the Austin Tex-Mex, 80 degree weather, and of course, the 1,000 bands that took over the city for five days, the...
"Ellen or Rosie and I have nothing in common; they're old-school joke tellers," says Sandra Bernhard. "My act is more akin to burlesque-rock 'n' roll-cabaret. If I don't get my audience turned on, then I'm not ...
by Brian Abrams
What happens when a hip-hop svengali notorious for his sexual exploits and raunchy musical stylings finally ties the knot? Well, if you're Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell, the 2 Live Crew ringle...