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With his long blond hair and lumberjack build, Daryl Hall doesn’t look Jewish. Yet, contrary to his gentile appearance, the leading half of Hall & Oates can be counted as a member of the tribe. The blue-eyed soul man and perpetual hit machine actually

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell

Remember when taking the L train to Williamsburg was exciting? Like anything—anything—could happen? When that small neighborhood in Brooklyn was bursting with non-referential creativity? You don’t? Well, Karen O, Nick

What do you get when you cross a Hasidic cop, Williamsburg hipster and a puking pug on the L train? A mess, that’s what. 

The barfing bitch’s owner, Chrissie Brodigan, swears she was manhandled, verbally assaulted and arrested by NYPD’s first Hasidic cop

Of all the special guests ever featured on Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sunday night’s episode (“Der Inflatable Fuhrer”) contained the most special guest of all:  Adolf Hitler himself.

Of course, you wouldn’t recognize him from the picture

A slice of Hollywood brilliance has been circulating the web-o-sphere these days. While the movie Tiptoes came out way back in 2003, the trailer for this McConaughey-Beckinsale vehicle has only recently emerged from obscurity thanks in part to comedians Paul

Heeb Hundred alum Doree Shafrir has been quite the busy lady of late. When not being profiled in the New Yorker (posh!) or the New York Times, she’s editing and writing over at the New York Observer and having unearthed one of my favorite stories of the year

Here is the story of how one band turned roadtrip thriftiness into stinky, non-kosher deliciousness. Check out Heeb‘s Music Issue for We Are The Fury’s Steven Lublin’s much more refined recipe for “Warm Lobster Salad“ and hold the gas station mayonnaise as

[See SXSW Recap, Part I here]

Friday:

Maybe you guys have heard of this metal band named Metallica? Well, they came to Austin, Texas this year for their big break, and after having seen them play Stubb’s, I am confident that they’ll be huge. And

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 confused suburban teenage boys—myself included—spent

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 over the Drew Barrymore-approved music festival (yes,