Remember when we all wanted to be Amanda Bynes? It was in 2006, right when “She’s the Man” came out. She was awkward, weird and kind of a geek, but she somehow prevailed, and got Channing Tatum in the end. Basically, every tween girl’s dream. The former Nickelodeon darling hasn’t been doing so well lately,…
No one noticed Matisyahu when he climbed onstage at a downtown Manhattan concert venue in early January, drinking a cup of tea under dark red lights. It wasn’t until the onetime Hasidic reggae superstar took off his fleece cap, revealing a velvet yarmulke, that fans connected the gaunt, stubble-faced man with the yeshiva boy who…
Never in the field of human barbery has so much been written by so many, about so few… hairs. One shave and we’re Shmoozing, of course but we’re not only Shmoozing, we’re Thinking too. But it’s not only the Forward that has gone stark raving beard bonkers, over at religiondispatches.org they’ve taken some time off…
Reggae star Matisyahu has shaved his long beard, posted photos of his startling new look on Twitter, and is now saying that he is disavowing the Hasidic life he has led for the past decade. Tuesday morning, with the photos, he tweeted a somewhat cryptic line that seemed to explain at least part of his…
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