Michael Green
By Michael Green
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Culture Our Own Superhero: A Matter of Pryde
Bar mitzvah boys can be divided, if you crunch the dataset right, into two groups: those who wished over their bar mitzvah cakes for superpowers, and those who wished to meet their favorite girl with superpowers: Kitty Pryde. Granted this might be limited to the subset of bar mitzvah boys who know what a dataset…
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News New JDate Billboard Flirts With Hollywood’s Drivers
I’m having lunch at Jinky’s on Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard, trying to explain to a deeply dimpled waitress that our funny holiday when I can’t eat bread is finally over and, yes, please, I’d like the garlic toast with my veggie chili today — when I notice an odd pair of smiles staring at me….
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Culture Curb Your Judaism
True, Larry David doesn’t much like whitefish. True, he makes fun of the Orthodox and — yes — he made far too public two dark, shameful secrets of Judaism: that we sell tickets for High Holy Day services and that Gina Gershon is one of us. But don’t be fooled. It’d be easy to dismiss…
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