Friday, December 5, 2008

indie gift guide for venuszine

Indie Gift Guide: San Francisco
San Francisco style can be hard to pin down. With distinct neighborhoods in the city proper — the Tenderloin, the Mission, The Haight — and even more unique outlying cities, there are a lot of different types of ladies to please.

christmas/chanukah for interfaithfamily.com


Neil Diamond, Sugar Cookies And Shiny Plastic Dreidels


Sunday, November 30, 2008

im smitten for metro pop

IM SMITTEN
In fairy tales, bears sit at tables, children munch on candy houses and women can live in their shoes.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

"from krakow to krypton" for j. the jewish news weekly


Comic relief: ‘From Krakow to Krypton’ throws Jewish cartoonists into spotlight

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … a book about Jews and comic books! And it is, admittedly, much more exciting than I thought it could be. While comic books themselves still give me a heart-palpitating rush, I worried that dissecting their creation and connections to Judaism would ruin their simple, aesthetic fun.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

trail of our vinyl for j. the jewish news weekly


Recorded history: Book examines American Jewish experience through album covers
What can a 1957 Mickey Katz album, with the comedian posing on the cover as a kosher butcher, tell us about the American Jewish experience?