Mr. Weinstein Goes to Washington
Hillary Clinton supporter and movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, recently held a private phone conference, but don’t hold your breath for the least erotic political sex scandal since George Washington gave a hooker splinters
Not For the Teacher
Last week, The Howard Stern Show held an “Ugliest Guy, Hottest Wife” contest in which three couples competed for a $5,000 prize. Connecticut school teacher Marie Jarry (and her worse half) took home the loot, only days later to find herself fired from her job
Method to Their Madness
Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) temporarily ended on Wednesday when AMPTP representatives walked, significantly lowering the probability that an agreement will be reached by
High School Bake Sale
It’s no longer April, but it’s still 420. Or at least it is for 17-year old Austinite Heather McCurry who sold pot brownies to schoolmates this week for just $4 a piece. A shame that the fuzz charged her with a second degree felony.
Feeling a Draft
On this Israeliest of days, we’re delighted by news that love of Zion is not dead, even if it at times needs a threat of a boycott to express itself. Israeli Ubermodel Bar Refaeli has become Israel’s newest “enlistment officer.” Some naysayers may
Budapests
The ex-Eastern Bloc is a sort of a bizarro universe. It hasn’t quite lost that lovin’ Soviet feeling, but it has adapted in significant ways to the Western world. Every once in a while, though, there’s a nice little flashback to the dark ages.
Last April
Isn’t It Ironic?
Mork Calling Friedman
It seems that comic and Heeb Storytelling-alum Jena Friedman has found a new fan in Robin Williams. The 50-something-year old funnyman saw Friedman perform last Friday and Saturday nights before performing at her weekly Town Hall Pub show, Entertaining Julia, on
It’s Like Pop Culture, Only Less Interesting
I don’t know if I want to read a whole book about it, but Daniel Radosh’s premise in his recently published book Rapture Ready! is certainly interesting. Basically, instead of avoiding secular culture altogether, Radosh points out that evangelists have
Deep Doo-Doo
Apparently Nick Paumgarten’s story in The New Yorker last month about Manhattanite Nicholas White’s getting stuck in a Midtown elevator for 41 hours sparked quite a bit of interest from readers. In response, the pub obtained security cam footage from those









