Two days after this year’s Oscar nominations were announced, Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” — a film about a band of Jews who kill Nazis — screened for an audience of Holocaust survivors.
Whatever you think of OK Go (AKA That Band That Got Famous Dancing On Treadmills On YouTube), you can\’t say they\’re not faithful to their own brand: The One-Shot Wow. Their latest video, for the song \”This Too Shall Pass,\” features the band members lipsyncing amongst the largest Rube Goldberg perpetual motion machine ever constructed. A piano is dropped, a TV is smashed, and (spoiler alert) each OK GOer ends up with paint on their face. We talked to the video\’s executive producer AJ Schnack (also the director of the They Might Be Giants doc Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns and Kurt Cobain: About a Son) about how it all happened. Why perpetual motion? The band wanted to do a video featuring a huge, Rube Goldberg machine – it reflects their general ethos of wanting to make videos that people could try to do themselves (or some variation thereof)…
Reporting from Washington – In an untraditional twist, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) will replace Rep. Charles Rangel as acting chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee rather than Rep. Pete Stark (D-Fremont).
Critics of a caricature in Cologne showing a Jew preparing to eat a Palestinian child, with a glass of blood to wash it down, are pressing for charges against the artist.
A German cabaret artist has raised the hackles of Jewish leaders with a routine comparing welfare recipients to concentration camp prisoners.
Mortimer Zuckerman says he won\’t run for New York\’s junior spot in the U.S. Senate.
Israeli police will not investigate an alleged hit-and-run by three Australian detectives who reportedly hit a cyclist in Tel Aviv.
The Chicago Cubs will be permitted to hold back-to-back rock concerts at Wrigley Field on Yom Kippur as long as they minimize conflict with three nearby synagogues.
The alleged victim took the stand as the sexual molestation case against a rabbi began in a New York courtroom.
Protesters in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood must stay in an enclosed area, except for 300 who will be allowed in the streets for a half-hour, Israel\’s Supreme Court ruled.
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