Okay, that doesn’t quite make any sense, but what I want is for people to make time to see the documentary ‘Anvil! The Story of Anvil’ showing now (but slated for a short run) at the Avon. This is the (true) story of a heavy metal band from Canada who never hit it big, but […]
My new favorite nineteenth-century periodical: The American Jewess. Published in Chicago from 1895 to 1899–note their coverage of the Dreyfus Affair–it’s all online now and probably going to distract me for the rest of the day. [via Magic Molly]
Brown University is hosting two installments of “Jews and American Comics.” Telling Superman and Batman to suck it, they’re focusing on real-life Kavalier and Clay-ish heroes such as “Mendy and the Golem” and “Dana Steinberger: The Jewish Cowgirl.” Through Friday, check out “Jews and American Comics: An Exhibition of Popular Art” at Brown’s John Hay
To open the student-curated exhibition Jews and American Comics: The New Generations, noted comic artist and director of the Center for Cartoon Studies, James Sturm, will give a keynote address and participate in a panel discussion that will explore Jewish themes in comics strips and comic books, and the ways that Jews have shaped this
Idolator just tipped me off to the existence of JewTube, which I guess everyone should have seen coming a couple of years ago when the totally silly GodTube was launched. Random clicking on the front page immediately led me to this impressive yet totally NSFW video. As my understanding of Judaism is minimal at best
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Long-awaited, much-rumored, and deeply-desired. TJ is coming to L’il Rhodie! From the Projo: Offbeat grocery-store chain Trader Joe’s will open its first Rhode Island supermarket on Bald Hill Road this fall. Known for its Hawaiian-shirt-wearing employees, $3 bottles of wine and inexpensive, gourmet-style goods, Trader Joe’s has expanded rapidly in recent years. The grocer now
Yeah: More than 98,000 people in the U.S. are awaiting a lifesaving organ transplant at any given time. More than 17 people die every day because they are unable to get the organ transplant they need. David Gitlitz, a professor at the University of Rhode Island, was approached by seven different people offering to share
I can’t believe I missed this in the New York Times yesterday: “Possible Nazi Theme of Grand Prix Boss’s Orgy Draws Calls to Quit” In a sublimely perverse, supremely hilarious article that at first glance seems like something ripped straight from the Onion, the Times reports on Max Mosley, president of a formula one governing body,
Cuz that’s what the Rabbis tell us to do, and we’re not ones to ignore directives from on high. There’s only one way to shake out those winter doldrums, people: loud, loud music and ass-shaking. In fact, the band will be doing so this weekend in Boston, for Purim, the Jewish holiday which celebrates drinking,
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Which one is Ben Stein? Here he is in the Projo, going off on Darwinism. And here he is on O’Reilly: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWMGD1Dg6L8] Stein gets this right (while taking on the tone of the godless evolutionist Christopher Hitchens): Maybe we would have a new theory: We are just pitiful humans. Life is unimaginably complex. We are
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No other event in the American sporting scene quite captures the essence of sports like the NBA All-Star game. Where else could you find flashy rich white dudes from New Jersey bobbing their heads to Mary J. Blige? Where else could you find the amazing confluence of corporate corporate glad-handing and palm-greasing and other innuendo
Today! 8pm! Brown Hillel, 80 Brown Street! Story and Power: A training on community organizing Seth Leibson will conduct a training on behalf of the Jewish Organizing Initative, on how you can use your story to be more effective in making change on campus and in the world–stuff he really wishes he knew when he