Remember that time Pat Robertson blamed the earthquake in Haiti on Haitians pact with the devil? Funny enough, a rabbi is now blaming it on Eli Valley, a comic book artist who we've published on this site! Nice work, Eli!
Remember the Unspiked Files? We had almost forgotten, too! It's where we reprint worthy pieces killed by editors. Today, we have a first: a comic! Specifically, Eli Valley's Too-Hot-for-The-Forward comic comparing chimps and Israelis, metaphorically speaking.
You ever get the feeling you're being persecuted based solely on your personal creeds and beliefs? That a sinister cabal is against you because they don't like what you represent? Then you know how I feel today. Friends, I want to tell you something: The Jews are after me. That's right, using their powerful positions…
The New York Post thinks so! In today's special Sunday edition of Page Six, we are told that his new novel, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, "is bound to set off a firestorm of controversy." Why? Because Chabon "depicts some of his Jewish characters as willing to do anything, including massacring other Jews, in the…
Courtesy a flack at the Forward comes a cheery reminder of how Jews rule the world (aka a press release about the paper's list of the 50 Most Influential Jews in America, published this Friday), complete with overly clever addition of Virginia Senator George Allen in the 51st slot. We've got Jon Stewart (duh), Abe…
• Bonnie's rich AMI contract is up at the end of June, and — as one of her mags gets shut down and another's redesign is more or less undone — negotiations are underway. Great timing, eh? [NYP (second item)]
• Newspapers execs met in Chicago, surrounded by dinosaur skeletons. Sexy Jon Fine enjoys that metaphor, as he…
A horrible thought just occurred to us: What happens to today's Media Christmas parties?!
• MTV conspires with Nokia to makes Times Square even more crowded, tourist-friendly, and generally hideous. Swell. [Open All Night]
• Speaking of Times Square: See the debacle that was the "World's Greatest Guitar Smash," celebrating the Hard Rock Caf 's move that famed, benighted intersection. [Cityrag via Curbed]
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