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Bad Nuts

Once in a while, even when munchin’ on, say, a bag of high-end Bazzini cashews, you’ll come across a nut that tastes a li’l fruitier than the others. Disgusting. So, who in their right

When Montreal-based artist Pat Hamou came across an old lineup photo of Murder Inc. hitman Abe “Kid Twist” Reles in an old New York Daily News, he was mesmerized. He began researching figures from

“I first went to Israel in 1959 and I have very fond memories of it,” Richard Meier tells me from his office in New York City. “I never thought I’d actually have the opportunity to work

Yael Naim does in fact have a MacBook Air Notebook, and yes, it was free. Apple gave it to her because she recorded the perfect song to launch its revolutionary laptop. You know the commercial—it’s

Who

Tony Curtis

His game

Bernie Schwartz’s parents came to the US from Satmar because it was the land of opportunity. Changing his name to Tony Curtis, he became one of the hottest commodities in

Brett Ratner and Roman Polanski visit Auschwitz, the site of Polanski’s mother’s murder over half a century ago.

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Look north on Las Virgenes Canyon Road from the spot where, 23 years ago, Rob Rosenkrantz shot high school classmate Steve Redman to death with an Uzi and you’ll

My first meeting with James Brown was not going well.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” he screamed at me inside a suite in New York City’s swank Sherry Netherland Hotel in 1979.

Feast your eyes upon six of the most beautiful Jewish women in the world in this special pull-out calendar for the year 5769.

What do you get when you toss Godzilla, Popeye, Dante, Zappa, Picasso, Kirby, Sun Ra and Philip K. Dick into a pot and stir? A mad brew that is artist Gary Panter’s outrageous oeuvre. Panter, a

There is no way David Berman could have known the path he would set himself on in merely naming his band. As a young man at the University of Virginia, Berman began writing his songs: soliloquies left