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Cassandra’s Dream: The Heeb Review
By Karen Bookatz
A dramatic overture by composer Philip Glass cues the opening scene of Woody Allen’s latest effort, Cassandra’s Dream. Like the director’s past two films, Scoop and Match Point, CD is set in London and involves dark characters and plot
Clubhouse Cafe: The Heeb Review
Jewdarphiles have long counted on us to provide them with the cutting-edgiest commentary on all things Jewish and pop-culture. Sometimes, though, an issue arises that requires us to break from our customary badinage and speak truth to power. Today, we address
The Counterfeiters: The Heeb Review
Austria’s The Counterfeiters, which hits theaters today, follows in the tradition of another Oscar-nominated Holocaust film, Schindler’s List for at its center, we find a removed and callow egoist who eventually wins us over. This time, however, that
Soul Clap’s Dancing on the Charles: The Heeb Review
By Sharon Steel
When Charles Levine and Eli Goldstein decided to throw the first Dancing on the Charles, an outdoor dance party in Cambridge, MA last year, they didn’t bank on the ominous rain clouds threatening to wash out the night. Two hundred people
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco: The Heeb Review
Earlier this week, we got a super early preview of the new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (The press tour’s not until mid-March and the museum doens’t open until June 8th so, seriously, Heeb is special.) I’ve got nothing bad to say about the
Hats & Eyeglasses: The Heeb Review
An alternative title for the memoir of celebrity journalist and self-proclaimed “poker slut” Martha Frankel, Hats and Eyeglasses, could easily have been Chicken Soup for the Compulsive Gambler’s Soul. In the book, Frankel recalls her childhood in the Bronx
Then She Found Me: The Heeb Review
Pot Culture: The Heeb Review
Pot Culture, authored by Shirley Halperin, a writer for US Weekly, and Steve Bloom, who helms the website www.celebstoner.com, can best be described as a pop culture junkie’s rendition of a would-be Weed for Dummies. Replete with historical information,
Strange Culture: The Heeb Review
I hate it when film reviews are basically synopses, but you need some background on this one. What a fucking story. This artist Steve Kurtz, has been working for years with a collective that blends science and art to stage exhibits that question and teach the
Daft Punk’s Electroma: The Heeb Review
By Jed Oelbaum
Daft Punk has been tooling around with different iterations of their “we are robots” business for awhile, but Electroma, which clocks in at over an hour, marks their most serious effort so far. Beautifully shot, but inescapably boring, the
The Rabbi’s Cat 2: The Heeb Review
By Steve Gutierrez
The Rabbi’s Cat 2 (Pantheon Books) by Joann Sfar is an ambling, lighthearted sequel, which continues the stories of some early 20th century Algerian Jews — an almost forgotten pocket of the Diaspora — who, with their hookahs and
Heavy Metal in Baghdad: The Heeb Review
By Jed Oelbaum
Acrassicauda – the only metal band in Iraq – may not be very good, but what they lack in talent, they more than make up for in balls. You see, being a headbanger in Baghdad ain’t easy, what with all the blowing up and the killing, and
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Heeb Review
By Steven Lolli
The Heeb Summer Music Preview
Tropical drinks, long bike rides and good music are a few things that keep me in good spirits from from Memorial Day until mid- September. The first two you’ll have to take care of yourself—here are some suggestions for the jams.
Princeton
Bloomsbury
American Teen: The Heeb Review
By Julia Young
American Teen, the new documentary from Academy Award nominee Nanette Burstein, follows the lives of five teens in their senior year of High School in Warsaw, Indiana. One-by-one, we meet the jock, the geek, the rebel, the princess and the
Anvil! The Story of Anvil: The Heeb Review
By Nadine Levyfield
During hair metal’s heyday, Canadian band Anvil played for packed crowds all over the world. Today, Anvil frontman Lips, aka, Steve Kudlow, drives a delivery van for Choice Children’s Catering along the snowy streets of Toronto.
In Case You Were Wondering What’s On Our Jewkbox…
It’s been awhile since we gave you our Summer Music Preview, so we figured we’d list some artists currently getting serious airtime at HQ:
BJ Warshaw of the Brooklyn electro/damaged punk band Parts and Labor (pictured above) looks like a
Flipping Out: The Heeb Review
By Nadine Levyfield
High in the hills of the Himalayas, recently discharged Israeli soldiers swing lazily on hammocks, stoned out of their minds on whatever they can get their hands on. In the thick sand of the beaches of Goa, former soldiers dance at a rave,
Pineapple Express: The Heeb Review
By David Weiner
The “bromance” has had many incarnations in cinematic history, from Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot to Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon. Yet